* Wireless LANs a little too popular * ISPs need to stop abuse * Carriers will steer you toward managed services * Prediction review
Wireless LANs a little too popular
The explosive popularity of wireless LANs in recent years is mostly a good thing. But if you start piling on the applications – voice, video, storage networking – the limited bandwidth of WLANs could become a problem. Kevin Tolly explains.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/011705tolly.html?vo
ISPs need to stop abuse
ISPs have tremendous power over what traverses the Internet – and it’s time for them to wield that power or face losing it, says security consultant Robert Gezelter. If individual ISPs can’t stop abusive traffic, perhaps other ISPs should take drastic action, he says.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/011705gezelter.html?vo
Carriers will steer you toward managed services
Many companies have decided not to sign up for carriers’ managed services – but they may be forced into them, starting this year, says Tom Nolle in this week’s Reality Check. Contrary to what you might be thinking, however, they’re not looking to bilk customers, he says.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/011705nolle.html?vo
Prediction review
If you’re going to make predictions about what will happen in the year to come, you had better be willing to re-examine those predictions a year later to see how you did. Johna Till Johnson this week does just that. See how she fared in her 2004 look-ahead.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/011705johnson.html?vo
