Opinion

Mixed messages on wireless value

The failure of trade shows

Bell Canada expands optical data services

* Bell Canada's HSM service aims to be less expensive alternative to dedicated dark fiber

Actual losses or wishful thinking?

Security vendors peer inside

Networking your garden

Benchmarking WLAN switches: Let me count the ways

Is graceful restart the best way to ensure IP reliability? No.

Two industry experts debate the merits of graceful restart vs. nonstop routing.

Is graceful restart the best way to ensure IP reliability? Yes.

Two industry experts debate the merits of graceful restart vs. nonstop routing.

No substitute for government-funded research

Lehman Bros. adds Wi-Fi to signal distribution system

* Investment bank uses in-building signal amplifier

Time to overcome the reluctance to Active Directory

* Network managers: It's time to stop dragging your feet about directories

Ways to make your wireless net more secure

Survey to look at process redesign

* Participate in survey about how convergence affects business processes

VSATs and cyber cafes

When you can’t work from home, Part 9

New content management options

Macromedia Contribute 3 includes high-end Web publishing system

Vertical search engines and what Google can’t do

* There's so much on the Web that Google can't index

ComplianceCourier aims to help users meet regulations

* Courion's adds ComplianceCourier to identity mgmt. suite

GNU Compiler Collection and Java

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on GNU Compiler Collection and Java

Frankensoft: The monster we made

Could we stone them instead?

Red Hat veterans to launch new Linux company

* Specifix aims to create a template-style Linux distribution

Yes, but what about the marketers?

* Yes, but what about the marketers? * Face-off: To gracefully restart or not to gracefully restart * Everyone wants to be Buzz * IPod, shmipod

NetFlash: New server chips carry hidden cost

* New server chips carry hidden cost * Is Microsoft changing its stripes? * Cisco buys earn mixed reviews * Aventail goes small with SSL VPN appliance * Today on Layer 8

This week on Network World Fusion, 07/19/04

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Verizon Wireless, Lucent strike deal

* Verizon Wireless to buy $5 billion in net gear and services from Lucent

What Leucadia’s overture toward MCI really means

New server chips carry hidden cost

New tools corral WLAN radio waves