This week on Network World Fusion, 09/27/04

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) Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention

2) Call center services on the horizon

3) The Buzz Issue: The latest and greatest for your net

4) Wireless Wizards: QoS and voice over Wi-Fi

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: How many firewalls are enough?

6) UDO boosts storage capacity

7) IronPort looks to be e-mail’s guardian

8) IPv6 expert sees adoption growing . . . slowly

9) Commtouch fights spam at gateway

10) Wireless carriers state case for directory

11) Wi-Max proponents tout the  benefits of wireless alternative

12) Anti-spam group disbands

13) IBM sheds light on next Notes/Domino

14) 3Com prepares Linux-based IP PBX

15) Microsoft enters disk-backup market

16) Network Physics debuts net management wares

17) Security vendors harden products

18) Ford signs up for 50,000 VoIP phones

19) Reports mixed on IT spending

20) Analysts debate possible sale of MCI

21) Dust provides meshed WLANs for industrial use

22) Alcatel takes to the ROADM

23) Network World Radio: Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report

24) Case study: Free-space optics keeps fitness center in shape

1) Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention

Amid the venture capitalists, engineering wizards and marketing gurus at last week’s Wireless Sensing Solutions conference were two State Farm Insurance employees on a mission to learn about the event’s namesake technology. …

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704sensors.html

2) Call center services on the horizon

Verizon and Sprint are gearing up to offer IP-based hosted call center services that promise to reduce costs and ease contact center management.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704callcenter.html

3) The Buzz Issue: The latest and greatest for your net

Get the jump on the latest, greatest, hottest technologies for your enterprise, such as de-perimeterization, Wi-Max and Ev-Do, infranets, managed VoIP and more. Our annual Buzz report offers the latest on the things you need to know.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/

4) Wireless Wizards: QoS and voice over Wi-Fi

With more than enough bandwidth available, would QoS be critical to implement for voice over Wi-Fi applications? The Wizards conjure up an answer.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0927wizards.html

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: How many firewalls are enough?

Ron Nutter helps a user who wonders if more than one firewall would be enough to protect really sensitive servers.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/092704nutter.html

6) UDO boosts storage capacity

UDO was designed to meet the demands of archival storage applications by offering higher media capacity than traditional optical storage. Capacity of DVD technology maxes out at 9.4G bytes, whereas the first generation of UDO drives and media can store 30G bytes. 60G- and 120G-byte versions are planned.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/092704techupdate.html

7) IronPort looks to be e-mail’s guardian

E-mail is broken, and we’re going to fix it, says Scott Weiss of his company IronPort Systems. That’s quite a claim, coming from the CEO of a start-up that was founded just three years ago and hasn’t yet turned a profit.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ironport.html

8) IPv6 expert sees adoption growing . . . slowly

We recently interviewed Jim Bound, chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force and CTO of the IPv6 Forum, about the status of IPv6 deployment.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ipv6qa.html

9) Commtouch fights spam at gateway

Commtouch Software, which uses digital signature technology to detect unwanted e-mail, last week released a version of its product designed to appeal to large companies.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704commtouch.html

10) Wireless carriers state case for directory

Representatives of wireless telephone carriers planning a telephone directory service told a U.S. Senate committee last week that legislation to protect their customers’ privacy isn’t needed, because their plan already does.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704wireless411.html

11) Wi-Max proponents tout the  benefits of wireless alternative

Tired of new wireless technologies? Then stop reading. Because here’s a story about a new wireless system that someday could eclipse the Wi-Fi service you’ve just begun to understand.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704wimax.html

12) Anti-spam group disbands

The group working on a standard designed to help slow the onslaught of spam imploded last week amid intellectual property issues and in-fighting, but the co-author of the specification says he will introduce a new one shortly that he hopes will sidestep such issues.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ietfspam.html

13) IBM sheds light on next Notes/Domino

IBM/Lotus is stepping up efforts to reassure users that its Notes/Domino collaboration platform isn’t on the chopping block and will survive well into the future.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704lotus.html

14) 3Com prepares Linux-based IP PBX

3Com is readying a Linux-based appliance version of its VCX 7700 enterprise IP PBX in hopes that an open-source version of the product will be easier to sell through its channel partners.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0927043com.html

15) Microsoft enters disk-backup market

Microsoft last week announced its entry into the disk-based data protection and recovery market with a product that initially is best suited for small and midsize sites but has the potential to address large data center needs over time.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704microsoftstorage.html

16) Network Physics debuts net management wares

Network Physics this week will introduce new and upgraded appliances it says companies can use to monitor network and application traffic across data centers and remote sites.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704networkphysics.html

17) Security vendors harden products

Security companies this week are trotting out intrusion-prevention system and vulnerability-assessment products that not only widen customer choice but also indicate growing multi-vendor collaboration.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704newsec.html

18) Ford signs up for 50,000 VoIP phones

Ford Motor Co.’s decision to pay SBC $100 million to deploy and manage a network of 50,000 VoIP phones is being touted by the carmaker as a money saver as the carrier plays up its entry into the heavyweight division of VoIP vendors.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704sbcford.html

19) Reports mixed on IT spending

Negating even its own earlier projections this year, a new study from Goldman Sachs shows IT executives are curbing their projections and scaling back spending plans for the last quarter, and remaining conservative with budgets into 2005.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704spend.html

20) Analysts debate possible sale of MCI

While it emerged from bankruptcy five months ago, it appears there could be more big changes in MCI’s future.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704mci4sale.html

21) Dust provides meshed WLANs for industrial use

Industrial wireless start-up Dust Networks this week is expected to launch its company and products, which are aimed at networking factory-floor equipment and other hard-to-connect devices via wireless mesh-network technology.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704dust.html

22) Alcatel takes to the ROADM

Alcatel this week will unveil extensions to its metropolitan dense wavelength division multiplexing platform in an effort to make it more appealing to service providers looking to reduce the cost of provisioning new services to enterprise customers.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704alcatel.html

23) Network World Radio: Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report

Symantec last week released its semi-annual Internet Security Threat Report that covers the first half of 2004 and the numbers are not good. Listen to Dean Turner, executive editor of the Internet Security Threat Report for Symantec, discuss the findings.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0923radio.html

24) Case study: Free-space optics keeps fitness center in shape

Laser-based campus technology overcomes Wi-Fi shortcoming.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704fitness.html