This week on Network World Fusion, 10/04/04

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) Cracking the wireless security code: Exclusive test

2) Cisco deals kick VoIP market into high gear

3) Microsoft leaves colleges vulnerable

4) IT pros may know more, but so do their kids

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Spam control on an AIX server

6) Tech Update: LLDP helps troubleshoot, map and more

7) Case study: Implementing ITIL

8) F5 appliance extends remote access

9) Case study: Postal Service delivers single sign-on

10) Upstart firm touts remote DSLAM

11) Winning over skeptics, VoIP support builds

12) Network World Radio: The hidden cost of implementing VoIP

13) Quovia updates VoIP management appliances

14) AT&T expands network globally

15) Vendors tout SSL remote-access gear

16) IBM Tivoli digs deeper into app transactions

17) SurfControl turns a trick on phishers

18) Citadel, Preventsys sharpen vulnerability-assessment tools

19) Entrust  targets improper  e-mail

20) 3Com, Toshiba launch convergence gear

21) McData box offers SAN consolidation

22) Start-up takes new anti-virus tack

23) Software follows trails left by computer thieves

24) Security management wares get smarts

1) Cracking the wireless security code: Exclusive test

Is it possible to deploy a secure wireless LAN with technology available today? That question preys on the minds of IT executives who are tempted to deploy enterprise WLANs, but are hesitant because of security concerns. So we assembled 23 wireless products from 17 vendors and ran them through a battery of tests aimed at getting the answer.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/1004wirelessmain.html

2) Cisco deals kick VoIP market into high gear

Cisco has been on a roll in VoIP lately – announcing three huge wins with Fortune 50 companies in three months.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404ciscovoip.html

3) Microsoft leaves colleges vulnerable

Microsoft’s licensing policies and legal restrictions that forbid schools from distributing software patches to many students are leaving IT executives at universities with potentially thousands of unmanaged desktops that pose a serious security risk.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404highered.html

4) IT pros may know more, but so do their kids

Writing group policies, assigning user privileges and setting restrictive security zones for Internet access keep system management analyst Jason Kennedy plenty busy. . . . And then he goes to work. As the father of two “frighteningly computer-savvy” children and a member of the IT team at Best Buy Canada in Vancouver, B.C. , he has plenty of opportunity at home to use Internet-access monitoring knowledge and skills.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404widernethome.html

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Spam control on an AIX server

Ron Nutter helps a user figure out how to crack down on spam on a Sendmail server running on AIX.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/100404nutter.html

6) Tehc Update: LLDP helps troubleshoot, map and more

The soon-to-be-ratified IEEE standard, 802.lAB Link Layer Discovery Protocol, promises to simplify troubleshooting of enterprise networks and enhance the ability of network management tools to discover and maintain accurate network topologies in multi-vendor environments.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/100404techupdate.html

7) Case study: Implementing ITIL

The state of Michigan’s gradual rollout of ITIL’s best practices has eased growing pains.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/100404man.html

8) F5 appliance extends remote access

F5 Networks is wheeling out new hardware that lets more remote users securely connect simultaneously to corporate networks than past iterations of its product.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404f5.html

9) Case study: Postal Service delivers single sign-on

The USPS’ IT department is enjoying the first fruit of a nearly two-year effort that has resulted in the rollout of SSO capabilities to nearly 150,000 users who access nearly 1,000 applications on the agency’s network.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404postal.html

10) Upstart firm touts remote DSLAM

A privately held Canadian company is attempting to head off more-established players in bringing next-generation broadband capabilities to North American carriers and their customers.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404critical.html

11) Winning over skeptics, VoIP support builds

Industry experts say that IP PBX and phone technology is ready for mass deployment, after years of doubts about the technology’s ability to scale and provide 99.999% uptime – the tenet for system reliability among corporate telecom executives. But just because the gear is ready to go doesn’t mean every company is ready for a telecom rip-and-replace job, analysts and users say.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404specialfocus.html

12) Network World Radio: The hidden cost of implementing VoIP

Are you planning a voice over IP implementation? You’ve probably got your bandwidth and switch needs figured out, but have you considered the costs of rewiring the network closets and dealing with heat output from Power over Ethernet switches? Listen to our discussion.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0930radio.html

13) Quovia updates VoIP management appliances

Quovia this week is scheduled to release new versions of its IP PBX management appliances with improved monitoring and remote features it says will help users with 3Com, Cisco, Nortel or NEC IP PBXs run their converged networks more smoothly.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404infquovia.html

14) AT&T expands network globally

AT&T last week announced network expansion initiatives that include extending the reach of its Multi-protocol Label Switching network in Asia and South America, boosting IP capacity in the northwest U.S., increasing the reach of remote access services and deploying four new data centers overseas.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404attnet.html

15) Vendors tout SSL remote-access gear

Three Secure Sockets Layer remote-access vendors are upgrading their equipment, one with software enhancements and two with new hardware.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1004004vpnprods.html

16) IBM Tivoli digs deeper into app transactions

IBM Tivoli last week announced it has upgraded its application performance management software to more accurately identify network troubles and speed problem resolution.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404tivoli.html

17) SurfControl turns a trick on phishers

In response to the growing threat that phishing poses to e-mail users, SurfControl plans to upgrade its e-mail filter to catch these attacks, and flag more spam and other abuses.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404surfcontrol.html

18) Citadel, Preventsys sharpen vulnerability-assessment tools

A pair of vulnerability-assessment and remediation tool vendors are separately upgrading their products so that customers more easily can prioritize which networked systems need to be fixed.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404secwrap.html

19) Entrust  targets improper  e-mail

Entrust, best known for its encryption technology, last week introduced an appliance that works alongside e-mail servers to scan for inappropriate content entering or leaving an organization.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404entrust.html

20) 3Com, Toshiba launch convergence gear

3Com will use the Internet Telephony Expo this week in Los Angeles to launch applications for hardening business VoIP networks and expanding user capabilities, while Toshiba will unveil gear to make employees more productive with converged applications.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404iptelexpo.html

21) McData box offers SAN consolidation

McData last week introduced a Fibre Channel, iSCSI and Gigabit Ethernet storage-area network  router for users who are aggregating storage from a number of networks within an organization.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404mcdata.html

22) Start-up takes new anti-virus tack

Start-up Avinti is putting a virtual server twist on a well-known concept – quashing viruses that use e-mail as their delivery vehicle.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404avinti.html

23) Software follows trails left by computer thieves

On rare occasions when employee laptops go missing, Joe Scavetti, chief information security officer at Pension Benefits Guaranty in Washington, D.C., isn’t content to write it off to bad luck. Scavetti doggedly pursues each case, aided by software installed on each of the laptops that lets the devices call home.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404guarantee.html

24) Security management wares get smarts

A slew of security event management vendors are set to offer products that address everything from how security problems affect applications to ensuring network devices comply with internal and regulatory policies.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404secmgmt.html