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1) Showtime for Linux
1) Coming next week: Wireless switching showdown
2) Cisco gives Catalyst a 10G jolt
3) MCI service rollouts hit variety of snags
4) The New Data Center: Rethinking networked IT
5) Spotlight on enhanced wireless at CTIA show
6) Wireless Wizards: Calculating bandwidth per app
7) Nutter’s Help Desk: The accidental spammer
8) Meet the spam-busters
9) Review: HP’s ProCurve 2800 series
10) A Wider Net: Locker room to boardroom
11) Technology Update: VoiceXML lets you talk to computers
12) Management Strategies: IT execs tackle to-do lists
13) Microsoft sold on smart cards
14) Avaya CEO talks VoIP issues
15) Clustered storage technologies catch on
16) Microsoft’s delivery of patch tools slips again
17) VoIP start-ups get ready for Spring VON
18) Industry slow to fill campaign coffers
19) Videoconferencing vendors embrace H.350
1) Coming next week: Wireless switching showdown
At major trade shows, we always host a showdown between vendors in a particular field on key topics facing them. Next week, we’re going to run our first online showdown on wireless switching, in a weeklong discussion forum. Our panel of experts (Network World Senior Editor John Cox and Farpoint Group founder Craig Mathias) will start by posting questions to Airespace, Aruba, Chantry Networks, Extreme Networks, Symbol Technologies and Trapeze Networks. On Monday, we’ll post their answers. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the vendors get to question each other. Then we’ll open it up to Fusion users. You can read more at https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0216edit.html – we’ll post the forum URL next Monday.
2) Cisco gives Catalyst a 10G jolt
Cisco last week unveiled the most ambitious upgrade of its Catalyst switch line in more than a year, highlighted by the industry’s first copper-based 10G Ethernet switch offering.
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3) MCI service rollouts hit variety of snags
MCI customers already tested by the company’s bankruptcy scandal now are looking at significant delays in receiving promised upgrades that cover integrated VPN and VoIP services.
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4) The New Data Center: Rethinking networked IT
We spotlight your security challenges, from managing multitudes of user identities to stomping out vulnerabilities.
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5) Spotlight on enhanced wireless at CTIA show
Wireless aficionados will convene this week at CTIA Wireless 2004 in Atlanta to wrestle with current business and technology issues. Driving this climate is the realization that in a few short years, users might rely on their wireless devices as their primary communications tools, eclipsing the number of wireline phones and computers now serving that role.
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6) Wireless Wizards: Calculating bandwidth per app
The Wizards help a user figure out how much bandwidth he’ll need for each access point.
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7) Nutter’s Help Desk: The accidental spammer
Nutter cracks the case of a company whose mail server is being used for third-party spamming.
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8) Meet the spam-busters
MIT recently brought together the nation’s top spam fighters at its annual anti-spam conference. Network World caught up with some of the speakers and participants. Here are their stories.
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9) Review: HP’s ProCurve 2800 series
HP’s latest entries into the stand-alone Gigabit Ethernet switch space – the ProCurve 2824 and the 2848 models – offer a $100 per gigabit port price, but the trade-off is less than ideal performance levels.
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10) A Wider Net: Locker room to boardroom
Ex-NFL star and U.S. Rep. Steve Largent is now selling cellular to corporate America as president of the CTIA.
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11) Technology Update: VoiceXML lets you talk to computers
VoiceXML 2.0 is a markup language for building speech interfaces – the voice equivalent of HTML. A voice browser is like a Web browser – it interprets VoiceXML 2.0 scripts to present spoken information to users and accept spoken requests from them.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0322techupdate.html
12) Management Strategies: IT execs tackle to-do lists
Loosening purse strings and affordable technology allow delayed agendas to get addressed.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/0322man.html
13) Microsoft sold on smart cards
Software giant tightens up in-house security after hacker break-in.
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14) Avaya CEO talks VoIP issues
Avaya CEO Don Peterson talked to Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth about enterprise IP telephony adoption and why he is optimistic about the market.
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15) Clustered storage technologies catch on
As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and storage-area network file systems come in.
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16) Microsoft’s delivery of patch tools slips again
Corporate customers who anticipate the springtime release of upgrades to Microsoft’s no-cost patch management software have some disappointment ahead: They will not only have to wait till later in the year but also might have to upgrade their systems to use it.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0322patch.html
17) VoIP start-ups get ready for Spring VON
The Spring VON 2004 show will be the springboard for at least a few companies touting IP equipment and long-haul VOIP services for small and midsize business networks.
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18) Industry slow to fill campaign coffers
The network industry is donating significantly less money to 2004 presidential and congressional campaigns compared with other industries than it did in the 2002 and 2000 elections, preliminary federal election data shows.
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19) Videoconferencing vendors embrace H.350
In an effort to ease management of large IP video or even voice deployments, videoconferencing vendors are rallying around a new specification that standardizes the way endpoint addressing information is stored.
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