Welcome to This Week on NW Fusion, featuring breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive enterprise networking resource on the Internet. See below for the week's biggest stories and check out our other e-mail newsletters at http://www.nwfusion.com/focus
————————————– 1) Users still bullish on Web services ————————————– We catch up with the companies profiled in last year’s Web Services Early Adopters series (http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0415webservices.html) to see if they’re reaping the benefits promised. Two out of three give an enthusiastic thumb’s up. DocFinder: 5944 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519revisited.html
1) Nortel’s 10G switch deals Cisco a blow in San Jose
2) CTIA: Forum airs wireless worries
3) Of love and pagers: The life of married network pros
4) Face-off: Best layer for WAN optimization
5) Network World Radio: Data centers and PDAs
6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Sniffing VoIP
7) The New Data Center: Spotlight on Security
8) Presence simmers on back burner
9) Test: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox
10) Technology Update: RFID readers route tag traffic
11) Your career: Adapting to automation
12) MIM0 products boost 802.11g nets
13) Stage set for compromise on IEEE high-speed wireless
14) Offsite security complicates compliance
15) Hack your network
16) Switching: Extreme and Foundry keep on ticking
17) Sprint boosts wireless data services
18) Case study: Grid technology aids hospital’s diagnostics
19) Vendors target Web services/SOA mix
20) Kazeon’s storage appliance handles unstructured data
21) Case study: K-12 schools fight to stymie kid hackers
22) Compliance pressures still mounting
23) Buyout ends Akamai, Speedera feud
24) New IETF chief: ‘Our work’s still cool’
25) SAML 2.0 gets standards stamp
26) Start-up to manage Exchange systems
Editor’s Note: Should Congress just stay away from anti-phishing and anti-spam legislation? Mark Gibbs wonders if the government just makes things worse, in his new Gearblog. Check it out at https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/gearblog/?tw – and see all our other blogs at https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/?tw
— Adam Gaffin, executive editor, agaffin@nww.com
1) Nortel’s 10G switch deals Cisco a blow in San Jose
Nortel’s long-anticipated, next-generation 10G Ethernet switches will be the centerpiece of a $6.2 million converged network the vendor is building for the city of San Jose – a contract Nortel won last week.
DocFinder: 5900
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-nortel.html?tw
2) CTIA: Forum airs wireless worries
Large corporations face a number of daunting issues – from device administration to service-level consistency – as they look to increasingly mobilize their workforces, according to experts at last week’s CTIA Wireless 2005 conference.
DocFinder: 5901
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-ctia.html?tw
3) Of love and pagers: The life of married network pros
Married technology pros find life is full of late-night calls from India, travel and tech talk at home.
DocFinder: 5902
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105widernetlove.html?tw
4) Face-off: Best layer for WAN optimization
Andrew Foss, CEO of Swan Labs, says Layer 5 is the best place to attack WAN optimization. Jef Graham, president and CEO of Peribit says the lower layers are the best place to do it. Read their opening statements, then jump in with your thoughts.
DocFinder: 5903
https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2302
5) Network World Radio: Data centers and PDAs
We talk about Linux in the data center with Jean Bozman, research vice president for the enterprise computing group at IDC and with Kevin Burden, program manager for mobile devices to look at the future of phones and PDAs. Listen in.
DocFinder: 5904
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2005/0321radio.html?tw
6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Sniffing VoIP
Nutter helps a reader weigh his options on determining and monitoring how well VoIP traffic is running over his net.
DocFinder: 5905
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/032105nutter.html?tw
7) The New Data Center: Spotlight on Security
We delve into the latest security trends and technologies impacting new data center plans.
DocFinder: 5906
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc2/
8) Presence simmers on back burner
Real-time collaboration using presence-based tools is still a few years away for most companies.
DocFinder: 5907
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2005/032105presence.html?tw
9) Test: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox
Microsoft’s dominant browser is being challenged by open source upstart Mozilla Firefox, but in our testing neither browser scores a knockout punch.
DocFinder: 5908
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/032105ie.html?tw
10) Technology Update: RFID readers route tag traffic
Driven by speedy network processors and advanced software, RFID readers provide the same load balancing, QoS and security found in high-end IP routers.
DocFinder: 5909
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2005/032105techupdate.html?tw
11) Your career: Adapting to automation
Technology threatens to eliminate many of today’s network administration positions, although industry watchers predict more strategic IT jobs to evolve.
DocFinder: 5910
https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2005/032105man.html?tw
12) MIM0 products boost 802.11g nets
Our interoperability tests put to rest any concerns about the ability of Belkin pre-N products to work with standard 802.11g offerings. The performance improvements with MIMO-based products on only one end of the connection were impressive.
DocFinder: 5911
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2005/032805netlead.html?tw
13) Stage set for compromise on IEEE high-speed wireless
The IEEE task group charged with creating a 100M bit/sec wireless LAN standard has set the stage for a compromise between the two remaining factions.
DocFinder: 5912
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-wireless-80211n.html?tw
14) Offsite security complicates compliance
Offsite security conditions are always a factor to consider when a company enters an outsourcing deal, but regulatory initiatives are raising the stakes.
DocFinder: 5913
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-sas70.html?tw
15) Hack your network
While it’s still true that hackers who are bent on gaining access to internal networks are a menace, IT managers have also discovered that another type of hacker – the ethical hacker – is an indispensable force in their fight against this darker side of hacking. Read the article, then discuss in our ethical hacking forum.
DocFinder: 5914
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2005/032105-ethical-hack.html?tw
16) Switching: Extreme and Foundry keep on ticking
Among the hype-fueled Gigabit Ethernet start-ups that emerged in the mid-1990s – Alteon, Granite Systems, Prominent, Packet Engines, Rapid City – Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks are the last independent vendors still standing.
DocFinder: 5915
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105specialfocus.html?tw
17) Sprint boosts wireless data services
Sprint announced last week at CTIA Wireless 2005 that it’s beefing up its wireless services for business users.
DocFinder: 5916
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-sprint-wireless.html?tw
18) Case study: Grid technology aids hospital’s diagnostics
Doctors often need to balance the urgency of medical conditions with performing thorough analysis to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. Ideally, they’d like to do both. Dr. Eric Bremer at Children’s Memorial Research Center in Chicago turned to data mining and grid technology to help his organization garner speedy research results, while also performing thorough analysis.
DocFinder: 5917
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-hospital-grid.html?tw
19) Vendors target Web services/SOA mix
Iona Technologies and Reactivity this week are scheduled to unveil their latest infrastructure technology aimed at helping users build service-oriented architectures.
DocFinder: 5918
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-soa.html?tw
20) Kazeon’s storage appliance handles unstructured data
Kazeon Systems says it is set to introduce a storage appliance that not only analyzes the unstructured data on file servers but also decides where to store that data, and determines who can retrieve it and when, based on rules that IT creates.
DocFinder: 5919
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-kazeon-storage.html?tw
21) Case study: K-12 schools fight to stymie kid hackers
It’s enough to make you long for the days of spitballs in the classroom. When today’s K-12 students act up, they increasingly are going high-tech by using the school’s network to launch denial-of-service attacks, sending harassing e-mails or breaking into databases to try to change their records.
DocFinder: 5952
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-hacker-kids.html?tw
22) Compliance pressures still mounting
Regulatory requirements, mainly Sarbanes-Oxley, continue to squeeze IT budgets and staff.
DocFinder: 5953
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105sarbanes.html?tw
23) Buyout ends Akamai, Speedera feud
The news last week that Akamai Technologies had acquired Speedera Networks confirmed two things: The deal will end the companies’ bitter rivalry and the content delivery market has matured out of its turbulent adolescence.
DocFinder: 5954
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-akamai.html?tw
24) New IETF chief: ‘Our work’s still cool’
Brian Carpenter, a distinguished engineer with IBM, has taken over as chair of the IETF, the Internet’s foremost standards-setting body. Carpenter is the sixth person to chair the IETF since its founding in 1986. Network World Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan had an exclusive interview with Carpenter at the group’s recent meeting in Minneapolis. Here are excerpts from their conversation.
DocFinder: 5955
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105ietfqa.html?tw
25) SAML 2.0 gets standards stamp
A standards body has approved the long-awaited Version 2.0 of the Security Assertion Markup Language, a milestone that is expected to add fuel to corporate interest in sharing identities with business partners.
DocFinder: 5956
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-saml.html?tw
26) Start-up to manage Exchange systems
Start-up Azaleos this week will debut itself and its appliance aimed at helping users create a highly-available and remotely-managed Microsoft Exchange platform.
DocFinder: 5957
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-azaleos-exchange.html?tw
