* Network World’s 2004 Holiday Gift Guide * These networks are history * Verizon takes next big step toward VoIP * Microsoft fixes 'critical' XP firewall issue * Radio: Voice over IP gains traction * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
If you’re a last-minute shopper, or if you’re still searching for that perfect gift for the network geek who has everything, check out our 2004 Holiday Gift Guide. Find out how an optical drive gets our coveted “Ultra Cool” rating. Browse a wide range of digital cameras, media center PCs, wireless adapters and PC displays. We rate fingerprint scanners. A robot. Heck, we even review mice and keyboards. A must-see. Network World’s 2004 Holiday Gift Guide http://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/hgg/?net
If you’re a last-minute shopper, or if you’re still searching for that perfect gift for the network geek who has everything, check out our 2004 Holiday Gift Guide. Find out how an optical drive gets our coveted “Ultra Cool” rating. Browse a wide range of digital cameras, media center PCs, wireless adapters and PC displays. We rate fingerprint scanners. A robot. Heck, we even review mice and keyboards. A must-see.
Network World’s 2004 Holiday Gift Guide
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/hgg/?net
These networks are history
Two-hundred-year-old buildings were built without electricity in mind, let alone network wiring. But those buildings are often protected by regulations that won’t let you drill a hole through a wall. That means getting creative with wiring. We spoke with network managers who have to deal with these obstacles all the time.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304widernethistory.html?net
Verizon takes next big step toward VoIP
Best known locally for its spring tulip festival, the small northwest Washington city of Mount Vernon now has a new claim to fame: the first central office in Verizon’s network to be converted from old-fashioned circuit switching to cutting-edge packet telephony.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304verizon.html?net
Microsoft fixes ‘critical’ XP firewall issue
Microsoft has quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1217microfixes.html?net
Radio: Voice over IP gains traction
This week’s program looks at the adoption of voice over IP technology in the corporate world. Joining the program is Daryl Schoolar, senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR, a market research company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Schoolar recently published new research that examines growth in the VoIP sector. Listen today at:
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/1216radio.html?net
Today on Layer 8 – where our lords are always leaping:
Kids’ Christmas lists go high-tech; enterprise PCs are chock full of naughtiness; another nerdy iPod program; and Illinois seeks to ban violent video games; 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 set to revamp edge routers
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/121304cisco.html?net
2. Cisco eyes larger data center, IT services roles
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304ciscoenterprise.html?net
3. Verizon takes next big step toward VoIP
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304verizon.html?net
4. The WLAN standards alphabet keeps growing
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304specialfocus.html?net
5. Sprint, Nextel agree to ‘merger of equals’
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1215sprinnexte.html?net
