NetFlash: Networking’s best bets

Opinion
Feb 23, 20043 mins

It’s time once again for the Best Issue, and this is the bestest Best Issue ever. We have the best product tests – and tips from the testers if you were looking to do some yourself. We also have the top innovations and top products in use. And for fun we’ve added a story on some of the best names in networking – like “Kill A Watt” and the “CLAM” router. We’re still looking for the “Promised LAN,” though. The Best Issue http://www.nwfusion.com/best/2004/?net

It’s time once again for the Best Issue, and this is the bestest Best Issue ever. We have the best product tests – and tips from the testers if you were looking to do some yourself. We also have the top innovations and top products in use. And for fun we’ve added a story on some of the best names in networking – like “Kill A Watt” and the “CLAM” router. We’re still looking for the “Promised LAN,” though.

The Best Issue

https://www.nwfusion.com/best/2004/?net

Enterasys floats its LAN security plan

Enterasys is keeping up with the Cisco’s. The company is introducing a web of security initiatives this week to put more security into the network itself, a move that mirrors what Cisco did in the fall.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0223enterasys.html?net

D.C. builds high-speed network

Faced with emergencies from terrorism threats to ice storms, Washington, D.C., is spending $93 million to build a high-speed, citywide public safety network that industry observers say is one of the most advanced of its kind.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0223dcnet.html?net

Veritas bolsters storage mgmt.

Veritas Software this week is set to announce management and virtualization software that the company says will help customers more easily manage and allocate network storage capacity.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0223veritas.html?net

Today at “Layer 8”

Are our friends in Redmond greasing the skids at the United Nations to kneecap the adoption of ebXML? That’s what today’s New York Times is wondering in a piece that examines Microsoft’s funding of travel expenses for a U.N. business standards group. Industry critics say the alleged subterfuge comes on the heels of the software giant’s highly publicized $1 billion donation to the United Nations to support job training in developing countries. Also today: a chop shop for tacky lawn ornaments; are “naughty” words making computers human; the latest winner of our caption contest announced; and much more today at Layer 8.

https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net