Network World back issues from May 2000:
Making optical networks more flexible.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 01, 2000; ... As a result of the demand for more bandwidth, service providers are faced with the challenge of delivering bandwidth when and where customers need it. Consider what happens when a best-selling author publishes a new book and makes it available only via the Internet, as with ...
Lessons from an Asian B2B exchange.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... SINGAPORE - While dozens of brand-new business-to-business exchanges are eager to grab the spotlight, an older service provider used by high-tech manufacturers active in Asia offers a telling lesson on the advantages and drawbacks of online supply chains. ECnet's services have ...
The other VoIP; Video over IP emerges as an alternative to ISDN-based videoconferencing.(Technology Information)
May 01, 2000; ... IP-based videoconferencing is coming on strong as a successor to ISDN-based systems for cost-effective, application-rich corporate videoconferencing. Videoconferencing has always had the potential to save your company money and improve productivity by linking virtual teams in a ...
Parsing with precision; Hardware-based Layer 5 load balancers offer sophisticated traffic management for e-commerce.(Technology Information)
May 01, 2000; ... ParSing with Precision Hardware-based Layer 5 load balancers offer sophisticated traffic management for e-commerce. BY TONY BOURKE One of the hottest areas in networking today is Layer 4 load balancing, a function that's increasingly vital for the smooth ...
Convergence? No thanks, I gave at the (principal's) office.(Technology Information)(Column)
May 01, 2000; ... All the talk about convergence - merging voice, data and video streams in a common access pipe with common equipment - makes it seem like something new and wonderful. In reality, it's not either. Schools have been converging their systems for years in answer to some very specific needs and ...
ONE MAN'S QUEST FOR A LOAD-BALANCING PRODUCT.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
May 01, 2000; ... BY ERIC BLUE Recently, I led a team charged with selecting a load-balancing product for my company, a major player in the business-to-business e-commerce world. Our network consisted of more than 500 Web servers, mostly Sun Solaris boxes and a few Windows NT machines ...
How we did it.(Illustration)
May 01, 2000 ... Our test environment consisted of six routed Fast Ethernet subnet domains and a T-1 connection to our ISP. The Internet link let us perform massive zone transfers and other large-scale IP address operations, but most of our testing occurred just on our network 's intranet. Throughout the ...
Freedom from IP address overload; Lucent's QIP Enterprise is the best tool for ending your IP addressing nightmare.(Company Business and Marketing)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 01, 2000; ... Not so long ago, network managers would assign and manage IP addresses by manually updating tab-delimited HOSTS text files of static addresses and then distribute the resulting files throughout the company. Network administrators would put copies of the files in the appropriate directories ...
Ethernet reaches into the MAN - and beyond.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... If I offered you twice the bandwidth of your current metropolitan-area network (MAN) at half the cost, would you be interested? That proposition is attracting customers to a new breed of MAN service providers that are building fast, inexpensive networks using off-the-shelf Gigabit Ethernet ...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2000 ... Regarding Winn Schwartau's column "An effective way to disarm online muggers" (April 3, page 59): It would be nice to be able to take an active response that could affect attackers. But assurance is never going to be completely there, regardless of what you do. The ...
'Net Buzz.(News Briefs)
May 01, 2000 ... If the stock market nausea of the past few weeks has demonstrated anything lasting (a debatable point) it may be that technology investors have finally had their fill of fanciful business plans and amateurish execution. In other words, the screw-ups are being handed their walking papers, ...
Network World debate to test 'last mile' views.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... LAS VEGAS - If we're finally on the cusp of a tremendous leap forward in terms of inexpensive broadband access to WANs and the Internet, how can you take advantage of it? And which carrier is best positioned to provide it? That's the subject of Network World's ...
Suited for SUCCESS.
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Qwest's behind-the-scenes merger maneuver.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... Ever since Qwest Communications won a bidding war against Global Crossing last July to buy US West, Qwest officials have boasted that this is a different kind of telecom merger. They've claimed their deal presents none of the anticompetitive potential of SBC Communications ...
Microsoft to outline hardware specifications.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans this week, Microsoft will spell out its design specifications for hardware vendors, emphasizing this year's software-based upgrades on products from DSL modems to networking hardware. More than 100 companies ...
IP over glass, who cares?(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... Ciena Corp. http://www.ciena.com and Juniper Networks, Inc. http://www.juniper.net announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing between 10Gbps (OC-192c/STM-64) optical and IP networking platforms. The two vendors demonstrated direct connectivity between Ciena's ...
Stolen laptop prompts calls for internal review; Incident demonstrates shortcomings of intrusion detection.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... If your firewalls, intrusion-detection software and encryption technologies make you feel safe, think again. As the recent incident involving the theft of a U.S. State Department laptop demonstrates, having the best protection against external hackers means little if sensitive ...
Users tell storage vendors to get along.(Technology Information)
May 01, 2000; ... PALM DESERT, CALIF. - Users at a conference here last week griped about storage-area network (SAN) vendors that are unable to work together. "It's not a lack of standards, it's the lack of consistency and implementation," said Richard Boyle, vice president of technology ...
'MafiaBoy's' father busted; The alleged hacker's dad is arrested by Montreal police and accused of conspiring to commit assault.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... In a bizarre twist, the father of an arrested teenage hacker known as "MafiaBoy" was himself arrested on charges that he conspired to assault a business associate. Montreal police hauled the father in recently after investigators, who were monitoring his 15-year-old son via ...
Teething problems hit online child protection plan.(Government Activity)
May 01, 2000; ... New legislation that Friday went into effect in the U.S. to protect children's privacy on the Web is already running into difficulties. A plan by The Walt Disney Co. to use parents' credit card numbers to verify that their children can use services on Disney's network of Web sites was ...
Unidial gets a new name and focus.(Company Operations)
May 01, 2000; ... LOUISVILLE, KY. - The people at Unidial want you to remember the name Lightyear Communications. That's because Unidial has changed its name to Lightyear to reflect that it will now sell voice and data services on its own network, as opposed to only reselling phone service on ...
Carrier Briefs.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000 ... The Federal Communications Commission says it is concerned enough about the way some local carriers are deploying digital subscriber line (DSL) that it will hold a public forum on the subject May 10 to examine the key technical issues. Local carriers are deploying DSL via line cards in ...
Infrastructure Briefs.(News Briefs)
May 01, 2000; ... Novell last week announced a new option for its hosted file services product. Dubbed JustOn Hosted File Services, the "connected caches" feature lets users position Novell Internet Caching Systems locally and quickly access data stored in JustOn accounts from a Web browser. This is one of ...
Microsoft shares suffer as company faces remedies.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Proposed remedies to end Microsoft's monopoly in the market for operating systems will be announced this week, possibly as early as tomorrow, and reports say the government is expected to push for a breakup of the company. Bracing for the remedy proposal and ...
Examine the state of your LAN.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
May 01, 2000 ... LANs were supposed to be easy by now. The near-universal convergence on unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) wiring of Ethernet LANs, TCP/IP stacks and Web browsers was supposed to end the turf wars and headaches of dealing with networks of mixed cabling, mixed topologies and mixed protocols. ...
Stratus brings fault tolerance to Win 2000 users; Company's new ftServer family is designed to prevent failures and offer an alternative to clustering.(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... Microsoft has been preaching availability as one of the hallmarks of Windows 2000, while Stratus Computer is out to define just what that means. Stratus, best known for its fault-tolerant hardware that powers such critical systems as those at the Nasdaq stock exchange, recently ...
Novell tool lets users customize directory services.(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... PROVO, UTAH - Network executives will be able to manipulate their directories with a new tool Novell is giving away. Dubbed ScheMax, the software reads the structure or schema of Novell Directory Services (NDS), maps it and lets customers add, change or delete directory ...
ATM: A future that never was.(Technology Information)(Column)
May 01, 2000 ... Many people seem to consider me an ATM opponent, but I consider myself an ATM realist. Wearing whichever hat you place on me, I'd like to engage in a bit of an ATM postmortem. Once upon a time, the future was to be all ATM, all the time. For years I saw projections of $X billion ...
Online census filing declared success.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt said online filing for census 2000 was a success even though only 70,000 people used the Internet to file their forms. Prewitt acknowledged that the Census Bureau did not go out of its way to tell people they could file online, so any forms ...
Ask Jeeves stresses popularity as differentiator.(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... Web information access provider Ask Jeeves this week took the wraps off its Webwide Navigation Services, a suite of three popularity-based Internet navigation products. The company is hoping that the suite will help differentiate its product portfolio in the crowded 'Net search technology ...
Fundamental keeps watch on configuration settings.(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... Developing and managing configurations on servers and desktops can be a time-intensive task, but it's one Fundamental Software is attempting to automate. The company this week will release Version 3.0 of its Enterprise Configuration Management (ECM) platform, which is focused on ...
Microsoft skids 15% on foggy outlook.(Shares in Microsoft)(Company Financial Information)
May 01, 2000; ... Shares in Microsoft yesterday dropped more than 15% in the wake of rumors of a possible company breakup, concerns about the software maker's earnings potential, and a series of downgrades from prominent investment banks. Microsoft's stock was selling for $66.63 at the close of regular ...
Applix forms new Linux, ASP company.(VistaSource)
May 01, 2000; ... Applix this week announced the separation of its Linux group into VistaSource, a wholly-owned subsidiary supported by a $6 million investment from its parent company. The new company will focus purely on software. "Applix has too many businesses under one roof," Bernie Thompson, ...
Andersen taps Sun for e-procurement venture.(Andersen Consulting)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... Management and technology consultant firm, Andersen Consulting has formed a partnership with Sun to establish an Internet-based procurement firm, the companies announced.The yet to be named e-procurement venture will work with Sun and iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape ...
Nortel and Lucent compete for air time; Ready to rumble!(Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks)
May 01, 2000; ... Forget pro-wrestling. Fight fans looking for blood should tune into the scrap now brewing between Lucent Technologies http://www.lucent.com and Nortel Networks http://www.nortel.com for domination of the fiberless optical networking market. Lucent and Nortel have both struck ...
Storage hub on tap from SAN Valley.(SAN Valley Systems' Aspen Managed Hub)
May 01, 2000; ... CAMPBELL, CALIF. - The already crowded storage market got another player last week with SAN Valley Systems' introduction of a compact, low-cost managed hub that promises high availability. Start-up SAN Valley's first product, the Aspen Managed Hub, is a 10-port SCSI-to-Fibre ...
Managing easier.(Nuclio Corp.)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... When it comes to managing other people's networks, the three keys to success are automation, automation and automation, says John Jazwiec, CEO of Nuclio Corp., a management service provider (MSP) that debuted last week. Nuclio is the latest company to enter the nascent MSP ...
Ask Dr. Intranet.(Questions and Answers)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... I'm having some trouble getting a VeriSign digital certificate installed in our iPlanet 4.0SP2 Web server running on a Hewlett-Packard-UX 11.00 system. When I tried to install the certificate using the Web-based manager, I got a JavaScript application error: "Unexpected failure: cannot ...
Alcatel fortifies switch QoS; OmniCore 5000 switch can now map service quality across multivendor networks.(Version 3.0 of OmniCore 5000 switch software)(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... CALABASAS, CALIF. - Alcatel has bolstered the software in its Gigabit Ethernet switches to support quality of service (QoS) even as traffic passes between devices using different prioritization schemes. An upgrade in Version 3.0 of OmniCore 5000 switch software enables the boxes ...
Gates focuses on future of the PC at WinHEC.(Windows Hardware Engineering Conference)
May 01, 2000; ... NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft Chairman and Chief Technology Architect Bill Gates ignored a plethora of unpleasant issues -- the government's antitrust case, a potential breakup, and the company's worst financial day in more than a decade -- to tout the PC's future at WinHEC (Windows Hardware ...
Can't stop the start-up funding; Venture capitalists say there's too much money chasing too few good deals. So why are they setting up even more funds?(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... Venture capitalists responded to April's Net stock turmoil with declarations of sobriety: No more investing in froth. No more half-baked companies going public. No more money for startups without profits in sight. Due diligence, they said, was back. It made so much sense it couldn't ...
UUNET opens two more U.S. data centers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... UUNET has opened two more U.S. data centers in the New York metropolitan area to serve customers who need collocation hosting services in the Northeast. One new center in Carteret, N.J., has 80,000 square feet, and the other in Elmsford, N.Y., has 100,000 square feet. Collocation ...
InfoImage servers bring corporate data to light.(2 B2B and B2E Decision Servers)(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... PHOENIX - InfoImage is bringing Microsoft's dream of a unified, browser- based view of corporate data to life with the release of freedom 2 B2B and B2E Decision Servers. The two products tie into Web servers and Microsoft's Office 2000 line to provide users an aggregated view of ...
Chrysalis-ITS readies security processor for Web switches, VPN equipment.(the Luna 340 programmable chipset)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ...Chrysalis-ITS later this year plans to ship a network security processor for use in Web switches, VPN equipment and Wireless Application Protocol servers and gateways. Now in beta, the Luna 340 programmable chipset supports the variety of algorithms and suites in the virtual ...
Chip technology speeds Web switches.(MMC Networks)(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... MMC Networks is debuting a new architecture for its network processors that promises enterprise users faster, less-expensive switches for their e-commerce infrastructures. MMC's nP content switching architecture lets the firm's network processors move Web switching traffic at ...
Qwest and fixed wireless carrier react to FCC rules.(Advanced Radio Telecom)(Government Activity)
May 01, 2000; ... BELLEVUE, WASH. - One of the country's emerging fixed-wireless local-loop carriers is speeding up changes it plans for the way it reaches users because its key investor is buying a Bell carrier. Advanced Radio Telecom (ART) is accelerating its plan to exit the business of ...
Speeding the last mile.(broadband access)(Technology Information)
May 01, 2000; ... Widespread broadband access is becoming a reality, but it's the last-mile products and services of the future that customers will find most intriguing, industry experts say. Vendors behind cable modems, digital subscriber line (DSL) technology and fixed wireless services are ...
Alcatel OmniCore switches get QoS enhancements; Switch can map service quality across multivendor networks.(An upgrade to Version 3.0 of OmniCore 5000 switch software)(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... CALABASAS, CALIF. - Alcatel's has bolstered the software in its Gigabit Ethernet switches to support quality of service (QoS) even as traffic passes between devices using different prioritization schemes. An upgrade to Version 3.0 of OmniCore 5000 switch software enables the ...
Chip technology speeds Web switches, reduces costs.(MMC Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... MMC Networks is debuting a new architecture for its network processors that ultimately promises enterprise users faster, less-expensive switches for their e-commerce infrastructures. MMC's nP content switching architecture lets the company's network processors move Web switching ...
Defense Department Web-watchers find war plans online.(Government Activity)
May 01, 2000; ... A new reserve unit that monitors the Defense Department's presence on the World Wide Web has found an astonishing amount of classified or sensitive material on public sites. The Web Risk Assessment Team, established by the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, is made ...
SUPPLY-CHAIN SOFTWARE MEETS WEB-BASED E-COMMERCE; SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT RETAILERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND MANUFACTURERS AIM TO SHARE LOGISTICS DATA VIA THE 'NET.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS For decades, corporations have been using supply-chain management (SCM) software to plan product purchases or sales, and keep track of ordered items through the shipment and billing processes.But now the advent of Web-based e-commerce is leading to a ...
Sound tricks for digital music.(MP3)(Technology Information)
May 01, 2000; ... Having spent the past four weeks discussing a multimedia operating system (BeOS), media has been on Gearhead's mind. Moreover, because our evil twin in the "Backspin" column has been opining about Napster, Gearhead thinks it's time to take a look at the MP3 audio encoding system. ...
NEC unveils eight-way servers; NEC Express 5800/180Ra-7 offers flexibility for fast-growth companies.
May 01, 2000; ... With fast-growing e-commerce infrastructures in mind, NEC Tuesday debuted an eight-way-capable Pentium III Xeon server aimed at enterprise users. The NEC Express5800/180Ra-7 server lets end users start off with as little as a single processor and expand to eight processors. The ...
Spectrum to get mgmt. boost.(Aprisma will announce Spectrum 6.0)(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... LAS VEGAS - At NetWorld +Interop 2000, Cabletron's Aprisma spinoff will unveil new management technology to make it easier for users to proactively isolate and resolve critical network and systems problems. Aprisma will announce Spectrum 6.0, a new, more open version of the ...
Analysis: Looking beyond Win 2000.(The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 01, 2000; ... NEW ORLEANS - The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is Microsoft's annual bash for hardware developers, where they discuss what's coming up and how these developers will have to design their new hardware to take advantage of new operating system capabilities. To ...
MCI WorldCom/Sprint merger faces EU concerns.(European Union)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... BRUSSELS - The planned merger between MCI Worldcom and Sprint is running into trouble in the European Union, Competition Commissioner Mario Monti revealed Wednesday. "Our investigation has confirmed our serious concerns about the impact on competition, and in the next few days we will ...
Strong quarter for Nortel.(Nortel Networks)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... Canadian telecom equipment vendor Nortel Networks, on the strength of Internet networking sales, Tuesday posted first-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street predictions. Nortel reported net earnings for the first fiscal quarter ended March 31 of $347 million, or 23 cents per share on ...
China telecom to put phone calls on IP.
May 01, 2000; ... HONG KONG - China's dominant telecom carrier next month will launch IP telephony services in China, bringing the rapidly emerging technology to a huge and largely untapped telecom market.China Telecom will introduce domestic IP calling services in June in 16 of China's largest ...
SEC issues guidelines on 'Net use.(Government Activity)
May 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Securities and Exchange Commission has released new guidelines aimed at reducing the uneasiness public companies feel over their use of the Internet to disseminate information.Some companies have been skittish about how federal securities laws apply to the ...
EU unbundling will reduce telecom prices.(European Commission)(Government Activity)
May 01, 2000; ... BRUSSELS - A European Commission plan to end the stranglehold that former telecom monopolies hold over the local loop will lead to major changes in telecom costs and services to consumers, European Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen told a press conference Wednesday. ...
Compaq rolls out SAN software and arrays.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... Compaq this week announced a variety of hardware and software storage products for users of heterogeneous Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Unix networks. The products Compaq introduced are: * An appliance for managing storage-area networks (SAN). * A Web-based ...
Where do 3Com users go from here?
May 01, 2000; ... The life is finally draining out of the Network World Fusion forum about 3Com retreating from the enterprise network market, but what a tale it told. Not surprisingly, customers are shocked, confused and bitter. "I just purchased $150K of Corebuilder 9000's. Now what?" said one ...
NetScaler aims to speed up e-comm.(WebScaler)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 01, 2000; ... The ability to extend Web-acceleration capabilities from static to dynamic content is the promise of a device that will debut next week at NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas from a start-up called NetScaler. Dubbed WebScaler, the device works with existing cache and load-balancing ...
Loudcloud adds management console to infrastructure outsourcing service.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... Former Netscape executive Marc Andreessen's entrepreneurial venture, Loudcloud, on Wednesday added an extensive management console to its existing managed infrastructure service. Although Loudcloud is already providing high-end managed infrastructure outsourcing for various ...
EMC bolsters Symmetrix storage performance.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - EMC introduced hardware and software last week that increases the performance and scalability of enterprise storage-area networks (SAN). The Symmetrix 8000 series storage arrays, the Data General Clarion 4500 Fibre Channel Array and enhanced software are designed for ...