* Once-a-decade book review: "Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook"
* To what extent has virtualization made its way into your networks?
* SIP is a good example of a technology that is very slowly being standardized
* How the contentious and lengthy standards process impacts IT
* The potentially unacceptable length associated with the standards process
* The standards process
* Why we have standards
* What does it mean to support a standard? At what point do standards become useful? Is the standards process too lengthy? Too political?
* If we give employees access to more information, are we empowering them to be more productive?
* Reader feedback on the use of social networking in the workplace
