* Are WLAN APs a secure remote access alternative?
* FMC ROI and solving FMC/MMC challenges
* Ways to avoid lengthening the MTTR process
* Product announcements from NewStep, Aepona, Verizon, Covad
* Identifying application performance problems
* Where does the U.S. stand in FMC compared to Europe?
* The changing role of the NOC
* Nortel’s unified communications business bundle
* Yipes responds to the Metro Ethernet debate
* Two papers on convergence