* Hooked on photonics * Cisco releases Airespace WLAN location server * At 10, Java's wild success, missed chances * Opinion: Lack of demand dooms our industry * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
It’s quite possibly the world’s most secure network, but at the moment it’s not securing anything particularly valuable. It’s an experimental network in Boston that uses quantum cryptography to encode messages, and any kind of snooping would fail and immediately alert network administrators. This week Network World takes a closer look at this security measure that may well make its way into corporate networks. Hooked on photonics http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050205widernet.html?net
It’s quite possibly the world’s most secure network, but at the moment it’s not securing anything particularly valuable. It’s an experimental network in Boston that uses quantum cryptography to encode messages, and any kind of snooping would fail and immediately alert network administrators. This week Network World takes a closer look at this security measure that may well make its way into corporate networks.
Hooked on photonics
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050205widernet.html?net
Cisco releases Airespace WLAN location server
Cisco continues to figure prominently in the news this week, now unveiling a server that can track the locations of as many as 1,500 wireless LAN devices.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050505-cisco-airespace.html?net
At 10, Java’s wild success, missed chances
It has been 10 years this month since Sun unveiled its Java technology to the world, and, in the process, changed the computer industry forever.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050505-java.html?net
Opinion: Lack of demand dooms our industry
“We’re screwed,” begins Howard Anderson, and he uses the rest of this week’s Yankee Ingenuity column to explain in excruciating detail why we as an industry are in fact screwed. You wish that he weren’t so convincing and that he didn’t have as excellent a perspective as he does, coming from the venture capital community. How did it come to this? And is there a way out?
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/050205anderson.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where we’re currently not dating any American Idol contestants:
Americans cough up passwords for free coffee; ‘Net hurts bike messengers; NY Post gates off content; and Interop photos for you; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net
This week’s top 5 stories so far:
1. Cisco crams multiple security boxes into new appliance
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0503cisasa.html?net
2. Cisco hedging its bets with WLAN game plan
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050205-cisco-plan.html?net
3. IBM to cut up to 13,000 jobs
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050505-ibm-layoffs.html?net
4. Cisco wears a big target, plugs IOS leaks
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050205-cisco-ios.html?net
5. Juniper fills gaps in its enterprise strategy
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050205-juniper.html?net
