This week on Network World Fusion, 03/01/03

1) Showtime for Linux

1) New feature: IT Briefings Webcasts

2) Doubts dog Microsoft spam plan

3) Microsoft to make its software ‘behave’

4) It’s a new domain-name game

5) Wireless Wizards: Subnetting a wireless LAN for voice

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Software or appliance solution for viruses?

7) Face-off: Software or appliances for spam?

8) Hackers: What are they thinking?

9) Review:  Foundry Networks’ Big Iron MG8

10) Review: Secure Shell software

11) A Wider Net: Gamers get a league of their own

12) Technology Update: XrML keeps content under control

13) Management Strategies: Clearing out the old stuff

14) SOHO WLAN vendors weigh value of WPA cert

15) Network certification choices grow with Cisco

16) Accellion to manage e-mail attachments

17) Town’s VoIP net delivers Amber alert system

18) Laurel’s ShadeTree software branches out

19) VoIP to be scaled down, untethered at VoiceCon

20) Novell previews business-continuity cluster

1) New feature: IT Briefings Webcasts

Network World’s top editors offer their expert insight on a wide range of networking topics. Listen to these Webcasts to get advice on how best to integrate emerging technologies into your networks, market trends and what’s ahead in networking. We start this week with two: Senior Editor Tim Greene discusses SSL VPNs and Senior Editor Deni Connor takes a look at the importance of information life-cycle management.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/it-briefing/

2) Doubts dog Microsoft spam plan

Even with Microsoft lending its clout to an expanding anti-spam movement centered on authenticating e-mail senders, experts caution the approach comes laden with technical challenges and unanswered questions.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301microsoftspam.html

3) Microsoft to make its software ‘behave’

Microsoft’s revelation last week that it is adopting a new approach to computer security dubbed “behavior blocking” represents a radical shift in the company’s software design strategy that could pay off for attack-weary Windows users, industry watchers say.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301microsoftrsa.html

4) It’s a new domain-name game

Sales of specialized domain names are expected to increase, and Internet regulators plan to select several new industry-specific extensions later this year.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301tld.html

5) Wireless Wizards: Subnetting a wireless LAN for voice

The Wizards help out a user charged with building a 2,000-user wireless voice network. Note: This week, we expand our stable of Wizards; see how all the new ones answer the question.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0301wizards.html

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Software or appliance solution for viruses?

Ron Nutter helps a user decide.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0301nutter.html

7) Face-off: Software or appliances for spam?

And over in the forums, Tim Chiu, senior manager, Mirapoint and Ken Schneider, CTO for Brightmail, debate the best way to keep spam off your network. Read their opening statements, then jump in with your comments.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1194

8) Hackers: What are they thinking?

Knowing hackers’ favorite attack patterns and motivations can lead to better network security. Learn about the behavior and patterns exhibited in actual attacks against a bank, online merchant and brokerage firm, and what countermeasures you can take to guard against such incidents.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0301hackers.html

9) Review:  Foundry Networks’ Big Iron MG8

A true 10G Ethernet switch, but failover tests raise resiliency issues.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0301revfoundry.html

10) Review: Secure Shell software

New SSH Communications’ offering adds ease of use to its Tectia package.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0301revssh.html

11) A Wider Net: Gamers get a league of their own

No joke. As the popularity of computer games such as Counter-Strike, Battlefield 1942 and Xbox Live has soared, professional-grade competitions have sprouted worldwide. And they pay cash prizes that are getting bigger every year.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301widernetgames.html

12) Technology Update: XrML keeps content under control

Extensible Rights Markup Language is an XML-based language that determines rights and conditions for the use of electronic content to protect it from unauthorized use.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0301techupdate.html

13) Management Strategies: Clearing out the old stuff

Don’t let your storage rooms get overrun by obsolete equipment.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/0301man.html

14) SOHO WLAN vendors weigh value of WPA cert

SOHO WLAN vendors disagree on value of Wi-Fi Protected Access certification.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/0301netlead.html

15) Network certification choices grow with Cisco

Some say the slew of Cisco certifications has become an alphabet soup of titles, and others add that no piece of paper outweighs experience and intelligence.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301specialfocus.html

16) Accellion to manage e-mail attachments

With the proliferation in volume and size of attachments taxing e-mail systems, Accellion is introducing an updated version of its caching and management appliance designed to boost network performance and let companies consolidate servers.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301attach.html

17) Town’s VoIP net delivers Amber alert system

Few incidents can raise community angst, awareness and action like a missing-child report. So when Herndon, Va., had a chance to implement the national child-abduction warning system known as “Code Amber” last fall, it went all out, converging its telecom, e-mail and data networks into a high-speed VoIP environment to support the new application.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301herndon.html

18) Laurel’s ShadeTree software branches out

Edge router maker Laurel Networks last week unveiled software that it says enhances its router’s broadband and Ethernet service performance, and lets service providers upgrade the system without deactivating the network.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301laurel.html

19) VoIP to be scaled down, untethered at VoiceCon

Vendors this week at VoiceCon will introduce IP gear designed to give small and midsize businesses sophisticated voice and data capabilities while converging all their traffic on one network.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301voicecon.html

20) Novell previews business-continuity cluster

Novell is expected to announce a business-continuity product this spring that lets IT administrators cluster as many as four geographically separate storage-area networks to replicate and mirror data among each other for disaster recovery.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0301novell.html