NetFlash: Pneumatic nets haven’t gone down the tubes

If Token Ring is your idea of a legacy network, you should read this week’s Wider Net story. Pneumatic tube networks have been around for more than a hundred years – and they’re still being used today, though in limited applications. Why? Because there are some things that can’t be e-mailed or faxed. Pneumatic nets haven’t gone down the tubes http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524widernettubes.html?net

If Token Ring is your idea of a legacy network, you should read this week’s Wider Net story. Pneumatic tube networks have been around for more than a hundred years – and they’re still being used today, though in limited applications. Why? Because there are some things that can’t be e-mailed or faxed.

Pneumatic nets haven’t gone down the tubes

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524widernettubes.html?net

WLAN vendors spar over methods

I promised I would let you know if anything good happened at the CeBit America show in New York, and this was the best – Network World’s Wireless LAN Showdown. We pitted WLAN equipment vendors against each other and got a feisty debate that really highlighted the differences among their approaches.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0527wlanshow.html?net

Convergence at the forefront at MCI

MCI is making it possible for users to upgrade to IP while maintaining their investment in legacy technology with the second phase of its Secure Internet Gateway service.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0527mcisig.html?net

Buffalo spammer gets up to 7 years

A New York man convicted of using the network of ISP EarthLink to send out hundreds of millions of unsolicited commercial (spam) e-mail messages was sentenced to between three-and-a-half and seven years in prison Thursday, according to Brad Maione, a spokesman for New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0527buffalo.html?net

Network World Fusion Radio

Network World Senior Writer Denise Dubie recently interviewed Cathy Callagee, vice president of IS at UPS, about her company’s use of wireless and mobile products.

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0527radio.html?net

Today on Layer 8

As we get ready to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend, we bring you a couple tips to help make the long weekend a little more enjoyable. Plus, we continue to stand in awe of stupidity and can’t believe Krispy Kreme posted a financial loss. Finally, don’t forget to enter our caption contest by 8 p.m. Eastern today.

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

This week’s top 5 stories so far:

1. Cisco aims to own used-gear market

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524ciscoused.html?net

2. Cisco’s HFR is here

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0525ciscohfr.html?net

3. Microsoft outlines identity management roadmap

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525msid.html?net

4. Microsoft scrambling to secure Web services

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524microsoft.html?net

5. WLAN switch execs come to dinner

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524wlandinner.html?net