This week on Network World Fusion, 08/30/04

1) Has IE dug itself a hole? 2) Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers 3) A Wider Net: When silence sounds too, well, silent 4) How GM saved a billion dollars 5) Un-wiring the wireless LAN 6) Review: Pedestal aids in security enforcement 7) Review: LANsurveyor 8.5 for Windows 8) Review: SCO’s UnixWare measures up with open source additions 9) Technology Update: FTTP boosts bandwidth in the last mile 10) Management Strategies: In the firing line 11) Wary buyers dampen software sales 12) The other side: Hardware revenue should be up 13) Dell continues network battle 14) Tools help manage domain names 15) ISPs look inward to stop spam 16) Start-ups automate global trade functions 17) Microsoft aims to save $1 billion this fiscal year 18) Siemens exec talks up VoIP

1) States prepping cyberalert plan

2) American ITIL: Best practices win converts

3) Case study: How Kodak converged its net

4) Wireless Wizards:  Extending range with a repeater

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Sniffing a network

6) A Wider Net: AT&T’s golden age may be past, but Golden Boy remains

7) Wireless: My oh MIMO

8) Windows: Mano a mono

9) Security: Behind the perimeter

10) Technology Update: Generic exploit blocking stops infections

11) Network World Fusion Radio: Microsoft on Sender ID

12) Management Strategies: Regulatory rollouts

13) Adventures in teleworker notebooks

14) HP exec targets security priorities

15) IBM, EMC roll out midrange NAS

16) Nextel tests wireless broadband waters

17) Windows management plan taking shape

18) Cisco, Microsoft offer VoIP/CRM package

19) Juniper tackles remote access security

1) States prepping cyberalert plan

Looking to gauge the risk of attacks against their networks, state officials this week will vote on new measures that would assess threats and dictate specific actions to take to protect key resources.

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2) American ITIL: Best practices win converts

The IT Infrastructure Library, a set of management best practices that has long been popular in Europe, finally is starting to make waves in the U.S.

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3) Case study: How Kodak converged its net

Eastman Kodak’s IT group has undergone sweeping changes, consolidating servers at 350 sites into one data center at headquarters in Rochester, N.Y., and standardizing on SAP software across the company. At the same time, Kodak converged its international voice and data networks over an MPLS VPN service. John Parsons, a 32-year veteran of Kodak who oversaw the projects, spoke recently with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth.

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4) Wireless Wizards:  Extending range with a repeater

The Wizards conjure up a way for a user to cover a large parking lot without using hardwired access points.

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5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Sniffing a network

Ron Nutter answers the question: Which is the best way to connect a protocol analyzer to an Ethernet network in order to “sniff” the packets on the wire?

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6) A Wider Net: AT&T’s golden age may be past, but Golden Boy remains

Today, as the carrier reshapes itself in the face of brutal competition – it recently shook up the industry by announcing plans to stop competing for consumer business – AT&T veterans are clinging ever more tightly to symbols such as Golden Boy that recall a golden age of telecom.

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7) Wireless: My oh MIMO

Using multiple transmitters and receivers, new technology offers major boost to wireless LANs.

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8) Windows: Mano a mono

One IT consultant’s battle against the Microsoft monoculture.

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9) Behind the perimeter

As more attacks penetrate traditional perimeter defenses, smart organizations adopt defense-in-depth strategies in which application-level security plays an increasingly critical role.

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10) Technology Update: Generic exploit blocking stops infections

A new security technology called generic exploit blocking shields systems from malicious threats before they appear. When incorporated into desktop and network firewalls, the technology prevents infections rather than responding to them.

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11) Network World Fusion Radio: Microsoft on Sender ID

This week we look at Sender ID, a new framework being considered by the IETF and pushed by AOL and Microsoft that’s designed to authenticate mail senders and help eliminate spam and phishing attacks. Listen in Windows Media Player or RealPlayer, or download an MP3 version for the ride home from work.

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12) Management Strategies: Regulatory rollouts

IT managers implement new technology to make sure law is on their side.

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13) Adventures in teleworker notebooks

Our intrepid editor – and a part-time teleworker – put three machines to the ‘schlep around’ test.

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14) HP exec targets security priorities

Tony Redmond, vice president and CTO at HP Services and HP Security Program Office, explains HP’s priorities, including a new service called Active Countermeasures, now in beta.

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15) IBM, EMC roll out midrange NAS

EMC and IBM separately have unveiled midrange network-attached storage products for users who want to combine and manage NAS and storage-area network technology.

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16) Nextel tests wireless broadband waters

Six months ago Nextel became the first U.S. company to launch a broadband wireless service trial based on Flarion’s Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Handoff-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology. Since then, the carrier has expanded the geographic reach of its Nextel Broadband service and attracted paying customers.

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17) Windows management plan taking shape

Microsoft last week took its second significant step on its road to building a holistic management platform for Windows and providing corporate users with a utility computing platform.

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18) Cisco, Microsoft offer VoIP/CRM package

Small and midsize businesses often lack the IT skills and budget to build sophisticated call center setups that link customer information stored in CRM applications with IP telephony systems. Cisco, working in partnership with Microsoft, aims to change that.

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19) Juniper tackles remote access security

Juniper this week is announcing technology that promises to give businesses more ways to guarantee computers making remote links to corporate networks have appropriate security software in place.

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