This week on Network World Fusion, 01/10/05

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) The enterprise: A look into the future

2) Network World Radio: IT spending in 2005

3) Consumer show meets net world

4) Forget about sleeping: It’s Patch Tuesday

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: SSH dropping connections

6) Review: Voice over Wireless LAN

7) Best practice, practice, practice

8) Identified Internet Mail combats fraud

9) Diageo distills IS leaders

10) What’s ahead for Vonage in 2005?

11) E-billing adopters find rewards

12) Texas A&M probes traffic for assaults, faults

13) FCC set to auction more PCS licenses

14) Start-up to paint new switch picture

15) McData preps high-end storage switch

16) Wireless group studies ‘Super 3G’ standard

17) UPS veteran takes over as CIO

18) NT holdouts paying a price

19) Microsoft scrubs security component for Exchange

20) Extreme switch packs speed, reliability

21) NIST mulls new WLAN security guidelines

22) Apple delivers SAN system

23) Users, firms at odds on mobile devices

1) The enterprise: A look into the future

What’s in store for 2005? Industry experts say you should expect network industry merger activity – nearly $60 billion worth of which took place in one week last month – to continue unabated. Insiders and our columnists also weigh in on VoIP, open source, outsourcing and more.

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2) Network World Radio: IT spending in 2005

We interview Andrew Bartels, vice president and research analyst at Forrester Research to see what’s in store for the coming year. Note: We’re now making our weekly interviews available as podcasts (see below for the feed URL)

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3) Consumer show meets net world

Beyond the high-end home theater speaker systems, paper shredders, advanced sewing machines and electrical adapters, the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 last week was, at least in part, about taking networks to the next level. CES is a gigantic laboratory of 2,400 vendors trying to figure out what you can do with a world of digitized information. Also see our complete round-up of show coverage on our Network Life site

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4) Forget about sleeping: It’s Patch Tuesday

The engineers at vulnerability testing tool vendor nCircle spend $100 per month at the coffee shop in the lobby of their office building in downtown San Francisco. But there is one day each month when a trip to the cafe is more urgent than at any other time: Patch Tuesday.

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5) Nutter’s Help Desk: SSH dropping connections

Ron Nutter helps a user whose HP-UX box drops users seemingly at random.

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6) Review: Voice over Wireless LAN

Aruba is the top dog if you want to add voice traffic to an enterprise wireless LAN.

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7) COBIT: Best practice, practice, practice

COBIT is a proven standard that can help with compliance, business accountability and auditing.

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8) Identified Internet Mail combats fraud

IIM provides new protection that can help stem the tide of unwanted and harmful e-mail. Compared with other signature-based approaches, IIM offers a more reliable way to authenticate messages and is designed to provide scalability for authorizing large numbers of public keys.

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9) Diageo distills IS leaders

The alcoholic beverage company’s career development program pushes staff to excel.

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10) What’s ahead for Vonage in 2005?

We talk to Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron on the future of broadband video, the key to consumer VoIP adoption, the possibility of being acquired and more.

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11) E-billing adopters find rewards

For a company switching from paper to electronic invoicing methods, one obvious savings potential is mailing costs – no more bills to print or postage to purchase.  But there are a lot more savings to be gleaned by going electronic, users say. For Health Alliance Medical Plans in Urbana, Ill., a key savings comes from expedited dispute management processes.

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12) Texas A&M probes traffic for assaults, faults

Texas A&M University has improved the network management and security for its sprawling wireless and wired campus network with an application that sifts through traffic for abnormalities or irregularities.

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13) FCC set to auction more PCS licenses

Wireless service providers later this month will begin bidding untold millions of dollars on spectrum that the FCC is set to sell in its third Personal Communication Services auction.

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14) Start-up to paint new switch picture

Start-up Matisse Networks promises that by year-end it will ship a distributed switch designed to connect the geographically dispersed elements of corporate data centers.

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15) McData preps high-end storage switch

McData next week is expected to roll out a long-awaited director-level switch that promises to let customers consolidate storage resources without sacrificing the security and isolation required by application data.

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16) Wireless group studies ‘Super 3G’ standard

The 3G Partnership Project – a consortium of 200 wireless vendors and operators – has begun a study to determine the feasibility of defining a standard that supports wireless downlink speeds as high as 100M bit/sec.

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17) UPS veteran takes over as CIO

Dave Barnes learned a lot about how UPS operates in his ascent from part-time package handler to senior vice president and CIO. He joined the Atlanta company in 1977 as a college student and last week was elevated to the company’s highest technology position.

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18) NT holdouts paying a price

Although Microsoft last month offered users what appeared to be an olive branch by extending fee-based custom support for NT through 2006, the service’s flat-rate pricing instead reinforces to many a curt message: Get off NT.

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19) Microsoft scrubs security component for Exchange

Microsoft has shelved a new security component for Exchange Server 2003. Instead, it will add its piece parts to a service pack and the next upgrade of the server.

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20) Extreme switch packs speed, reliability

Extreme Networks this week is expected to launch new switch chassis aimed at letting users link wiring closets directly to the LAN core via 10G Ethernet, while providing low latency and five-nines connectivity for IP phones, PCs and other network devices at the LAN edge.

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21) NIST mulls new WLAN security guidelines

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency responsible for defining security standards and practices for the government, plans to issue new guidelines pertaining to wireless LANs in the near future.

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22) Apple delivers SAN system

The Xsan storage-area network file system lets users deploy a shared data environment for their data center or high-performance computing environments.

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23) Users, firms at odds on mobile devices

Companies and their employees may find themselves in a tug of war over enterprise-class mobile phones, an emerging set of devices just as capable of running multimedia entertainment and games as business applications.

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