It’s mind-boggling – if a manufacturer simply does a better job of tracking its products, it can make a difference worth tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s why the industry is going gaga over radio frequency identification, or RFID. Execs at Michelin and Procter & Gamble recently talked about how their RFID efforts are going. Users bet big on RFID http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103forrester.html?net
It’s mind-boggling – if a manufacturer simply does a better job of tracking its products, it can make a difference worth tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s why the industry is going gaga over radio frequency identification, or RFID. Execs at Michelin and Procter & Gamble recently talked about how their RFID efforts are going.
Users bet big on RFID
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103forrester.html?net
Hospital: Prognosis good for WLANs
Network World’s Your Take series of interview articles gets to the heart of what matters most to network executives. This month we spoke with Hartford Hospital’s managing director of IS infrastructure, who is overseeing the deployment of wireless LANs in the hospital. We also spoke with him about VPNs, Web services and why he’s not worried about Linux.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1027yourtake.html?net
Switch vendors readying for WLAN battle
Two wireless switch start-ups, Vivato and Trapeze, last week announced layoffs. Meanwhile, Cisco and Nortel are expected to announce details on adding wireless management features to their wired switches. The events highlight an emerging enterprise debate on how to deploy large-scale wireless LANs: whether to do so by creating an overlay to the wired LAN with a new group of “switches” designed to handle WLAN traffic, radio monitoring, addressing, management and security; or to extend existing switch products with new software that can handle these jobs.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1104wlantrend.html?net
HP expands Intel-based server options
Continuing its progression toward an Intel-only server portfolio, HP today is expected to round out its Itanium-based server line and unveil a two-processor Xeon-based box designed to be a low-cost node in high-performance computing clusters.
