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* Concord acquires Aprisma * A look into the future * Extreme switch packs speed, reliability * Q&A: What's ahead for Vonage in 2005? * Network World Fusion Radio: IT spending in 2005 * Today on Layer 8
Welcome to This Week on NW Fusion, featuring breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive enterprise networking resource on the Internet. See below for the week's biggest stories and check out our other e-mail news
* Networking in 2005 * Is PON the cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks? * Networking, a decade hence * DSL’s ups and downs * Network World Fusion Radio: IT spending in 2005
* Patches from Conectiva, NetBSD, Gentoo, others * Beware Trojan disguised as Flash player * NIST mulls new WLAN security guidelines, and other interesting reading
* Ex-WorldCom executives agree to multimillion-dollar payout * CES: Goodbye Comdex, hello CES * Trojan disguised as Flash player targets cell phones * Oracle to close PeopleSoft acquisition Friday * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
* Equant offers LAN VPN, a managed service down to the workgroup switch
* They love us in lean times, will they love us during a recovery?
* Novell in 2005 should streamline product mixes and resolve legal matters
* Cisco throws hat in WAFS ring
* Symantec acquires Veritas, EMC gets SMARTS
* Nice Shoes speeds image transfers over WANs
* What PCI-Express can do for you
* Review of Network World security Webcast
* How one company enforced its acceptable-use policy with no money
* Other companies in Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant’ report
* Patches from Mandrake Linux, Trustix, Conectiva, others * Beware new bot, Santabot * Attacks on Microsoft WINS hole raise alarms, and other interesting reading