This week on Network World Fusion, 12/06/04

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) Cisco pushing Catalyst capabilities to the edge

2) Municipal WLAN plans draw mixed reactions

3) The fate of the IXCs

4) Wireless Wizards: Setting up two wireless LANs in the same room

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: When a Java app doesn’t work over a VPN

6) Going once, going twice . . . gone for good?

7) Lotus Notes at 15: An interview with Ray Ozzie

8) Review: Novell serves up an operating system winner with SLES 9

9) Juniper’s NetScreen Secure Meeting appliance

10) Protocol extends reach of multicast

11) EMC’s SAN is an easy install

12) Tivoli plans to be Big Blue’s MVP

13) Juniper connects high-end routers

14) Messaging wars: Lotus, Microsoft move on

15) IT execs eye Firefox with hope

16) Offshoring remains hot issue for IT

17) HP, Alcatel rev up new switches

18) HP adds identity wares to platform

19) Vendors automate change mgmt.

20) AT&T’s Dorman offers Darwinian take on survival

21) Bluesocket to secure branch WLANs

22) Strix to add outdoor WLAN mesh to product mix

23) Server virtualization is on the rise

24) DoS responsibilities seen widening

25) Opalis looks to automate repetitive tasks

1) Cisco pushing Catalyst capabilities to the edge

Cisco’s latest wave of LAN switching announcements further blurs the demarcation between edge and backbone corporate networks.

DocFinder: 4960

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604catalyst.html

2) Municipal WLAN plans draw mixed reactions

A public political spat in Pennsylvania last week threw light on potential issues that might stymie citywide wireless LANs intended to give residents and businesses broadband Internet access.

DocFinder: 4961

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604wifi.html

3) The fate of the IXCs

Once-mighty interexchange carriers AT&T, MCI and Sprint now must evolve or face extinction. Three telecom experts weigh in on the future of the three giants.

DocFinder: 4962

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/120604ixc.html

4) Wireless Wizards: Setting up two wireless LANs in the same room

I want to set up two different wireless networks in the same room. Each one has a different Service Set Identifier (SSID). I am using two Symbol 4121 access points for one network, set to channels 1 and 11. Two Linksys access points for the second network are set at channels 4 and 8. Again, both networks use a different SSID but both use the same WEP key. Is this a workable situation? Is there a better way?

DocFinder: 4963

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/120604wizards.html

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: When a Java app doesn’t work over a VPN

Ron Nutter helps a user diganose possible conflicts between a particular Java app and his IPSec clients.

DocFinder: 4964

https://www.networklifemag.com/columnists/2004/120604nutter.html

6) Going once, going twice . . . gone for good?

A Stanley Bostitch heavy-duty stapler sold for $10. A reception office couch and chairs went for $205. One lucky bidder fetched an 866-MHz Dell PC for $300. It wasn’t supposed to end this way for Appian Communications.

DocFinder: 4965

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604widernetauction.html

7) Lotus Notes at 15: An interview with Ray Ozzie

Lotus Notes turns 15 on Dec. 7. Iris Associates, the software development company from whence Notes emerged – on the Lotus dime – was founded five years earlier to the day. That’s reason enough for Network World’s ‘Net Buzz columnist Paul McNamara to get Ray Ozzie on the phone, given Ozzie was the headliner for both productions before leaving Notes Nation in 1997 to start Groove Networks.

DocFinder: 4966

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1202lotus.html

8) Review: Novell serves up an operating system winner with SLES 9

Our tests of Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 – we tested revision 9.1 of the server software – show it to be polished, faster and supporting a wider breadth of applications than previous versions we’ve tested.

DocFinder: 4967

https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/120604slesrev.html

9) Juniper’s NetScreen Secure Meeting appliance

We found Juniper’s NetScreen Secure Meeting appliance (SM-3000) makes both performance and economic sense for midsize to large firms looking to add Web conferencing abilities.

DocFinder: 4968

https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/120604rev.html

10) Protocol extends reach of multicast

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol enables rendezvous points to inform each other about the sources that are known to them, thereby enabling access to these sources from any domain or location. An experimental protocol described in IETF RFC 3618, MSDP can be used between multicast domains and within domains.

DocFinder: 4969

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/120604techupdate.html

11) EMC’s SAN is an easy install

Network World editor plows his way through installation of the SOHO SAN in a mere 32 minutes.

DocFinder: 4970

https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/120604netlead.html

12) Tivoli plans to be Big Blue’s MVP

Fighting to keep its lead among aggressive competitors, IBM Tivoli in the coming year plans to improve its IT service management offerings to help Big Blue deliver on its autonomic computing and On Demand Business promises.

DocFinder: 4971

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604tivoli.html

13) Juniper connects high-end routers

Juniper last week launched a switching matrix for interconnecting multiple high-end carrier routers into a multiterabit-capable system designed to accommodate more service subscribers.

DocFinder: 4972

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604-juniper.html

14) Messaging wars: Lotus, Microsoft move on

Nearly a decade ago, e-mail was the killer app and vendors IBM/Lotus and Microsoft were locked in a battle to prove which was best at delivering messaging to a corporate world hungry for online communication. The winner? Both.

DocFinder: 4973

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604specialfocus.html

15) IT execs eye Firefox with hope

The latest release of the open source Web browser Firefox has spurred millions of downloads and a groundswell of anti-Internet Explorer sentiment, but IT executives question the role Firefox will play in their enterprise environments.

DocFinder: 4974

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604firefox.html

16) Offshoring remains hot issue for IT

Corporate users in growing numbers are turning to offshore services providers as a way to cut costs, boost efficiencies and focus domestic IT staff on more business-related tasks, analysts say.

DocFinder: 4975

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604offshore.html

17) HP, Alcatel rev up new switches

HP this week is expected to announce its strategy for building enterprise LANs with emphasis on strong security and advanced services in edge devices and with less feature-laden 10G Ethernet boxes in the core. Also on the 10G front this week, Alcatel is introducing a family of Layer 3 workgroup switches called the OmniSwitch 6800 that feature 10G bit/sec uplinks.

DocFinder: 4976

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604switches.html

18) HP adds identity wares to platform

HP last week added a new piece to its identity management lineup that is designed to allow companies to share identity information across corporate boundaries.

DocFinder: 4977

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604hpidentity.html

19) Vendors automate change mgmt.

Management heavyweights are tackling customer IT service management concerns with product advances that could deliver on the promise of intelligent and automated data centers.

DocFinder: 4978

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604servicemgmt.html

20) AT&T’s Dorman offers Darwinian take on survival

AT&T remains formidable, with $30 billion in revenue last year, but speculation about its future revolves more around acquisition than any return to the glory days. AT&T CEO and Chairman David Dorman recently spoke with Network World Senior Editor Denise Pappalardo and Associate News Editor Paul McNamara about the company’s enterprise services unit, pricing pressures and survival in an ever-difficult telecom market.

DocFinder: 4979

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604dormanqa.html

21) Bluesocket to secure branch WLANs

Bluesocket this week is scheduled to uncrate a wireless gateway and a Web-based management application that lets network administrators remotely authenticate, secure and manage wireless LAN users in hundreds of branch offices.

DocFinder: 4980

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604blusocket.html

22) Strix to add outdoor WLAN mesh to product mix

Wireless mesh vendor Strix Systems this week is set to unveil an outdoor product line designed to let users blanket spaces with wireless LAN connectivity while minimizing cable runs.

DocFinder: 4981

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604strix.html

23) Server virtualization is on the rise

While EMC subsidiary VMware has garnered the bulk of attention regarding server virtualization, a slew of vendors are looking to address what they see as rising demand for this server consolidation technique.

DocFinder: 4982

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604server-virtualization.html

24) DoS responsibilities seen widening

Network World Senior Editor Denise Pappalardo recently spoke with Thomas Arthur, CEO of Arbor Networks, about DoS attacks and whether service providers and their customers are doing enough to protect their networks.

DocFinder: 4983

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604arborqa.html

25) Opalis looks to automate repetitive tasks

Opalis last week released software that will help customers automate repetitive tasks associated with management, backup and virtualization technology.

DocFinder: 4984

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/120604opalis.html