Opinion

Preserving legacy investments in telephony

* The ability to preserve legacy investments key to helping organizations move to unified communications

Good night, and good luck

* Farewell from us

Mailbag: Why one school system is sticking with Ethernet

* Reader responds to the question of mid-band Ethernet vs. high-speed DSL

McAfee gives Cisco Total Protection

* McAfee's Total Protection software now supports Cisco's NAC architecture

Letter to Santa

* Annual storage wish list for Santa

ALEatory ALE

* Annualized loss expectancy explained

Dueling gadgets

IBM to end stock options to non-IBM directors

Mozilla patches 8 Firefox bugs

* Patches from Apple, Gentoo, Mandriva, others * Big virus-related news of the week * Trend Micro: Windows zero-day exploit for sale, and other interesting reading

Top Security Threats for 2007

NetFlash: What did Cisco buy? A look at eight acquisitions in ’06

* What did Cisco buy? A look back at eight acquisitions in '06 * The network industry’s most colorful story ever * Siemens sets network speed record * Q&A: What Redback acquisition means to Ericsson * Juniper to take $900 million charge for options *

2006: The year in LANs (and routers)

* The year in review

Nortel: Why Cisco should be worried, and more

Welcome to The Best of Network World. Here is this week's Readers' Choice, with the most-clicked stories of the week.

IBM, Intel team to promote virtualization in data centers

* IBM, Intel form virtualization initiative

Interview interrupted by ‘flying penises’ … sure, it was in Second Life, but still

WinDVD 8 to the rescue

Bad Web sites responsible for Mouse Rage?

Lawmaker to cell operators: “We’re going to be heard now”

Raise your hand if you’re a cheesepodder

Nintendo hit with flying Wiimote, class action suit

Tivo’s Top 10 TV moments of the year

Yet another ‘honor’ for Britney

Xandros and Home Depot

10 tips for a successful job interview, Part 2

* Tips to ace that job interview

User-centric identity gains support

* Microsoft includes CardSpace in Vista

Applications management in 2006: SOA moves into the mainstream

* A look at applications management in the past year

Sphere, ever more refined topical searching

* Blog content indexing and ranking

2006 convergence predictions: How we did, Part 2

* Where are the free calls?

Redundancy considerations in Wi-Fi architectures

* Hospital chooses distributed network for high uptime

NetPro unveils speaker lineup for Directory Experts Conference

* News about Directory Experts Conference, Active Directory