This week on Network World Fusion, 12/15/03

1) The Extended Enterprise 2) Cisco, Nortel to embrace SSL-based VPNs 3) Tech industry starts to show signs of life 4) Promising indicators suggest telecom recovery looming 5) Technology Update: Wireless mesh networks boost reliability 6) From Net.Worker: Big ideas for advancing telework 7) Wireless Wizards: Wait for 802.11i? 8) Vendor brings Cobol apps to the Web 9) VMware points users toward utility computing 10) Carriers brace for number portability 11) Security Notes: Security implications of the Citrix server approach 12) Venture funding holds its own during Q3 13) WLAN protocol hits standards trail 14) Management Notes: Controlling app behavior 15) IM management may take years to conquer 16) Novell buys its way deeper into Linux 17) Wireless Notes: Next-generation WLANs 18) Help Desk: To honeypot or not 19) Feds to push new set of security controls 20) Red Hat drops free Linux

1) IPv6 fears seen unfounded

2) VoIP, storage top Cisco hit parade

3) A Wider Net: The Linux penguin

4) Tester’s Challenge: Dumb defaults update

5) Wireless Wizards: Connecting large, campus-wide WLANs

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Connecting a neighborhood to the Internet

7) Finding the best network-management toolbox

8) Review: Security event management tools

9) Security Notes: The e-jihad: When Middle East conflict goes electronic

10) Storage Notes: OnStor links SANs to Ethernet

11) Technology Update: Active archiving eases data management

12) Fighting spam the old-fashioned way

13) Tools help users assess application performance

14) Nortel lags behind 10G curve

15) FTTP moving up the to-do list for 2004

16) Forecasts: IT budgets set to grow

17) Retailers shore up Web sites for holidays

18) Oracle patches SSL server bugs

19) Vendors bulk up patch management

1) IPv6 fears seen unfounded

Early adopters of IPv6 say deployment of this upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol is significantly easier than expected and costs less than anticipated.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215ipv6.html

2) VoIP, storage top Cisco hit parade

Cisco CEO John Chambers last week outlined his company’s goals, chief among them to exploit voice over IP, and highlighted its biggest challenges, notably gaining success in the storage market.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215cisco.html

3) A Wider Net: The Linux penguin

Torvalds wanted a logo, he got a phenomenon. The story behind the bird that drives an industry.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215widernetpenguin.html

4) Tester’s Challenge: Dumb defaults update

Our inaugural Tester’s Challenge called on vendors, particularly Cisco, to address why their products still support unsecure access and management protocols. Cisco declined to address the issue, but other vendors stepped up to the plate.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1215testerschallenge1.html

5) Wireless Wizards: Connecting large, campus-wide WLANs

The Wizards answer this question: Is it possible to connect separate, disparate wireless LANs, such as those found on a university campus? What issues can we expect if we try this?

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1215wizards.html

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Connecting a neighborhood to the Internet

Ron Nutter offers suggestions to a user in a remote area on the best ways to get his development a broadband connection.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1215nutter.html

7) Finding the best network-management toolbox

We take a look at a set of diverse tools to help you find the right one for your network needs and budget.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/1215rev.html

8) Review: Security event management tools

ArcSight 2.5 wins our Blue Ribbon Award and bests four others based on its ease of use, flexibility and administration interface.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/1215semrev.html

9) Security Notes: The e-jihad: When Middle East conflict goes electronic

It’s not exactly World War III out there, but Dr. Sherif Kassem Fathy, professor of computer science and information systems at Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, has been monitoring regional strife on the Internet, and he says it’s getting worse.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/security/003844.html

10) Storage Notes: OnStor links SANs to Ethernet

OnStor recently shpped its SAN filer – a product that let’s storage area network storage attach to the Ethernet network. Unlike SAN/NAS gateways like EMC’s Celerra, the ONStor SF4400 Series SAN filer, connects to any Fibre Channel storage array.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/storage/003842.html

11) Technology Update: Active archiving eases data management

Active archiving software lets companies archive rarely accessed data from complex relational databases and manage the data efficiently.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2003/1215techupdate.html

12) Fighting spam the old-fashioned way

We show you how to supplement technology with policies and practices that help curtail unwanted e-mail.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2003/1215man.html

13) Tools help users assess application performance

A couple of vendors are set to air products this week designed to give companies a better read on application performance by aggregating network and system management data.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215appliance.html

14) Nortel lags behind 10G curve

With Cisco, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks, Foundry Networks and Force10 Networks having introduced switches this year that provide full-duplex 10G Ethernet throughput – and switching capacities in the T-bit/sec – Nortel has remained quiet. While the vendor was among those leading the charge toward 10G Ethernet several years ago, its product turnout has since cooled.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215nortel.html

15) FTTP moving up the to-do list for 2004 

Regional Bell operating companies say they will begin deploying fiber-to-the-premises technology next year, a rather speedy time frame considering that the proposal for FTTP equipment was issued only six months ago

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215specialfocus.html

16) Forecasts: IT budgets set to grow

The leading high-tech industry watchers forecast that 2004 will see the most significant increase in IT spending in more than three years, but don’t go looking for double-digit growth projections.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215predictions.html

17) Retailers shore up Web sites for holidays

While the holiday season traditionally provides a key revenue surge for retailers, it’s also a prime time for fraud.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215retail.html

18) Oracle patches SSL server bugs

Oracle has issued a security alert and software patches for a set of serious vulnerabilities in the security protocols some of its server products use.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215oracle.html

19) Vendors bulk up patch management

Patch management vendors BigFix and LanDesk are upgrading their software to meet corporate demand for more-comprehensive tools that go beyond the discovery and installation of new patches.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215patch.html