Opinion

The extent of WLANs’ reach in the enterprise

* Wireless LANs buoyed by prospect of voice, other apps

Cisco ACS Server EAP-TLS authentication flaw

* Patches from Sun, Debian, Conectiva, others * Beware ever more Rbot variants * Symantec pushing into mobile space, and other interesting reading

The word ‘platform’ has been a euphemism for control

2004

New life for an old technology?

* Ipswitch adds a friendly front end to venerable FTP

Mailbag: Readers question performance for VoIP SLAs

* AT&T explains how it bases VoIP quality on ITU's R-Factor

JotSpot to re-energize stagnant Intranets

* JotSpot makes every page editable by any or all of the people who have access

Enabling E911 services

* A look at Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED)

CompuCredit finds success with offshore business process outsourcing

* A business process outsourcing success story

VoIP fees and regulations

* Vonage’s fees; FCC Chairman Powell on regulations

Microsoft offers evaluation copies of ISA Server 2004

* Try out Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004

Health system saves 16,000 hours/year with wireless

* Wireless helps home caregivers do better job

NASA blasts off with latest Linux supercomputer from SGI

* NASA's Columbia Linux cluster surpasses previous supercomputer champs

Are we looking for network management for identity?

* What if software, apps and services had their own management information base for audit controls?

Application vendors take on management

* Application vendors wake up to the importance of management

What’s on the training agenda for 2005?

* A training company identifies four key growth areas for training in 2005

NetFlash: Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches

* Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches * Technologists push Ethernet to new areas * Cisco looks ahead to home networking boom * Q1 Labs tackles intrusion prevention * Internet Explorer keeps losing market share * Today on Layer 8

Product Central

Cisco looks ahead to home networking boom

Tarantella spins a thin client Web on Linux

Time Warner sees profit dip; may restate AOL figures

Experts say spam fight needs to be more strategic

Timely game

Shunra’s Storm

* Shunra's Storm is a hardware-based network modeling tool that does a great job on the WAN

Cisco launches CCIE for storage

* Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert specialization

MMS the word

* Wireless group plans multimedia interoperability

Census counts home workers

* New report shows we haven’t come all that far

Traffic mgmt. gains gear at high, low ends

* Traffic-shaping vendors keep busy

Packeteer’s help with Idaho apps is no small potatoes

* Packeteer helps Idaho department manage apps, bandwidth

InfiniBand vendor unveils storage platform

* InfiniBand vendor Mellanox hooks servers with storage