Network World back issues from December 2000:
Gigabit Ethernet goes on MAN hunt; New optical Gigabit Ethernet switches trigger IP-based MAN data services.(Buyers Guide)
Dec 04, 2000; ... New optical Gigabit Ethernet switches trigger IP-based MAN data services. By David Axner igabit Ethernet has replaced ATM as the LAN backbone technology of choice among most network professionals, and now the technology is leapfrogging into the metropolitan-area ...
Honeypots wreak sweet revenge against cyber intruders.(Industry Trend or Event)
Dec 04, 2000; ... In the world of warfare, the term "asymmetry" means that one adversary isn't playing by the rules. Recently, some colonels in Beijing took a staunch asymmetrical position against the U.S., effectively declaring unrestricted war on our networks. Essentially, their message was, "Since the ...
Streaming media in the fastlane; Activate and Yahoo Broadcast in photo finish.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Streaming media is more than just listening to music, watching a movie trailer or funky animation. It's also an underlying set of technologies that can help your company communicate more effectively, more consistently and more conveniently with employees, partners, resellers, prospects and ...
Race ground rules.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000 ... Testing service providers is a bit more difficult than testing software or hardware products. In this case, we needed the cooperation of hundreds of people at a number of companies. This study would not be possible without the enormous talent and resources made available by WatchIT.com ...
What about Akamai?(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000 ... Market leader Akamai Technologies agreed to the terms of the shootout, submitted a request for proposal and participated in the live-event network performance and live-event first-hand tests, then decided to pull out of the study, citing concerns about the accuracy of the test ...
The jury remains out on Novell's One Net gambit; NOVELL'S TURNAROUND STRATEGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Nine months after announcing its One Net strategy, Novell claims to be seeing positive results . . . results that are just starting to be reflected in the company's quarterly earnings reports. Customers, analysts and partners apparently have started accepting Novell's sweeping ...
Justify the benefits.(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 04, 2000; ... The article "Virtual routers open up new services" (www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 1943) speaks of all the benefits of virtual routers without justifying any of them. Virtual routers are just part of the answer. By isolating resources, you are diminishing or negating economies of scale ....
More names we love to hate and hate to love.(News Briefs)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Our last column on names generated so many responses we had to do more. Apparently, when naming companies, some people can't stay away from what they saw the night before. GotOffice.com? Gotspeed.com? Who names a company after a milk commercial? Trendy corporate identities will ...
Facts and figures about our wired nation.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
Dec 04, 2000; ... I've been reading the U.S. Department of Commerce's fourth report in its "Falling Through the 'Net" series of studies about the digital divide, and it's jampacked with interesting facts. The upshot is that all Americans are flocking to the Internet, regardless of income and ...
inf briefs.(News Briefs)
Dec 04, 2000 ... Hitachi Data Systems jumped into the midrange storage market last week with the introduction of a reduced capacity storage array. The Freedom Storage Lightning 9910 series storage array joins the 37-terabyte Model 9960 introduced last June. Both arrays use a switched-network architecture ...
Storage over the Internet - iSCSI emerges.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Storage is an essential part of any company's infrastructure. Rapidly increasing storage capacities and network speeds challenge storage system performance, whether it's at the enterprise level or below. IP storage - sending block-level data over an IP network - addresses the requirements ...
GENERAL BANDWIDTH CATERS TO THE NEEDS OF RBOCS; G6 VOICE GATEWAY BOASTS STANDARDS THAT THE LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANIES DEMAND.(Product Information)
Dec 04, 2000; ... AUSTIN, TEXAS - Unlike some of its competitors, General Bandwidth is taking aim at the regional Bell operating companies in its effort to sell a voice-over-broadband gateway. The company has bent over backwards to make its G6 voice gateway attractive to RBOCs rather than to ...
carrier briefs.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... SBC Communications last week introduced OC-192 SONET service in a 12-state region. The service is available to customers in Southwestern Bell, Ameritech and Pacific Bell areas. SBC will launch the service in SNET territory next year. The OC-192 service will let customers transport various ...
Red Hat unveils Linux for Alpha.
Dec 04, 2000; ... Red Hat last week unveiled its Red Hat Alpha Deluxe, the company's Linux distribution for systems based on Compaq's Alpha chip. The operating system will come preinstalled on Compaq's ES and DS AlphaSeries servers and Compaq AlphaStations. Based on Red Hat Linux 7.0, Alpha ...
the importance of getting lost.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
Dec 04, 2000; ... I was reading an article in some random mass media magazine the other day that went on and on about how hard it was going to be in the future to get lost. Global positioning satellite systems in cars, cell phones and soon, wrist watches, will let us know at all times where we are. ...
news briefs.(News Briefs)
Dec 04, 2000 ... CIA fires 'chatty' employees After a seven-month internal CIA investigation into an unauthorized chat room that had been operated for more than a decade by a cadre of CIA employees and contractors, CIA management last week meted out punishment for what it called "a violation of ...
Microsoft brief may be to the taste of appeals court.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... The appeals brief Monday filed by Microsoft in its ongoing antitrust battle with the Department of Justice may sit well with the U.S. Court of Appeals, legal experts said. However, those same observers weren't swayed by all of the vendor's legal arguments. In its 150-page ...
Fast-track training puts nontechies in IT jobs.(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Earlier this month, Freddie Mac successfully added 16 IT workers to its ranks in just 11 weeks. It did so using an innovative approach that it plans to turn to again in January. The McLean, Va.-based mortgage aggregator isn't looking outside to fill these slots. Rather, it's ...
Unions see a role for themselves in new economy.(Industry Trend or Event)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Organized labor has played almost no role in the explosion of technological innovation that has helped fuel the current economic expansion in the U.S. Most people in the IT industry agree that the leading high-tech companies wouldn't have got off the ground if they had had to comply with ...
Red Hat unveils Linux for Alpha.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Red Hat Monday unveiled its Red Hat Alpha Deluxe, the company's Linux distribution for systems based on Compaq's Alpha chip. The operating system will come pre-installed on Compaq's ES and DS AlphaSeries servers and Compaq AlphaStations. Based on Red Hat Linux 7.0, Alpha Deluxe ...
Oracle snares former White House press secretary.(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Oracle Tuesday announced that former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart has joined the business software supplier and will become a member of its senior management team reporting directly to the company's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison. Lockhart will focus on refining and ...
Bertelsmann eyes mobile commerce market.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... German media giant Bertelsmann AG Tuesday said it has plans to enter the third-generation mobile telecom market as a virtual network operator. Operators of virtual networks resell mobile capacity on another operator's network under their own brand name. According to spokesman ...
Agilent buys communications software company.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Agilent Technologies Monday announced plans to purchase communications software maker Objective Systems Integrators. Agilent will tender a purchase offer for OSI to buy all outstanding shares of the company for $17.75 per share in cash or approximately $665 million. Shares of ...
NTT DoCoMo, AT&T Wireless reach a deal.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Dec 04, 2000; ... NTT DoCoMo later this week will announce a deal under which it will acquire a 16% stake in AT&T Wireless Group for about $9.1 billion, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Tuesday morning edition. The deal will be announced on Thursday afternoon in Tokyo, according to the ...
EU postpones decision on online taxation.(Government Activity)
Dec 04, 2000; ... European Union finance ministers shelved plans to introduce value-added tax on online transactions, setting themselves a deadline of the end of June 2001 by which to reach a decision. The stumbling block in front of an agreement is the question of how to charge VAT on ...
The myth of one-stop shopping.(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
Dec 04, 2000; ... One of the favorite conceits of competitive local exchange carriers is that they're nimbler than the fat, old telephone companies and more adept at putting together one-stop packages of cool, new services. But in the telecom world, claims of fleet-footedness run up against two ...
Doing something about service activation.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... There's an old saying that you should ignore the things you can't control and work to change the things you can control. Competitive DSL service providers can apply this philosophy directly to their businesses. All DSL providers to some extent are at the mercy of the incumbent ...
Dorman named president of AT&T.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Dec 04, 2000; ... At least someone can pick a president. AT&T appointed David Dorman, former CEO of Concert Communications - an AT&T and British Telecommunications PLC multinational telecommunications joint venture - as the company's president. Dorman is a former CEO of Pacific Bell and ...
Dutch PC maker slaps Dell with patent lawsuit.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Dutch PC maker Tulip Computer International BV is taking Dell to court over infringement of one of Tulip's patents. The Dutch company, which is reorganizing and struggling to stay in business, Friday filed suit against Dell in a U.S. District Court in Delaware. "The ...
Microsoft hasn't learned courtroom humility.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... All along we've thought Microsoft was one of the world's greatest marketing companies. Is it possible we were wrong? Or is it just its legal team that doesn't understand how to market a product? We've noted in the past Microsoft appeared to go out of its way to irritate Judge ...
edge briefs.(Industry Trend or Event)
Dec 04, 2000 ... Copper Mountain and 3Com last week announced the integration of Copper Mountain's CopperView network management system, which remotely manages users' DSL customer premises equipment and service providers' DSL access concentrators, with 3Com's CommWorks 5020 Intelligent Activation System ...
Motive eases online customer service.(Motive Olympus)(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Motive Communications, a provider of software for online customer service, this week will announce a set of prepackaged, reusable software components that makes it easier to embed customer service features into complex, e-business applications. Called Olympus, the new components ...
Novadigm software targets mobile user mgmt.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... EMERYVILLE, CALIF. - With firms supporting growing numbers of mobile users, network professionals may not always know what remote users have running on their computers or how to manage those devices. Novadigm thinks it can help. The company this week will release Radia Inventory ...
Flexibility sets Yipes apart, CEO says.(Jerry Parrick)(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Metropolitan Ethernet provider Yipes Communications offers gobs of bandwidth to companies looking to connect LANs across a city or the country. Founded 18 months ago and operating in 20 cities, Yipes boasts that it can offer bandwidth at less than half the price of a comparable service ...
How We Did It.(Editorial)
Dec 04, 2000 ... Generating traffic for a Gigabit Ethernet firewall is no simple task, so we turned to Spirent for a SmartBits 6000 with four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. We connected these back-to-back with the PIX 535 to get raw throughput numbers. For our typical traffic profile, we used data collected ...
Broadcom to buy video chip maker.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Acquisition-hungry communications semiconductor company Broadcom Tuesday announced its 12th purchase for the year: VisionTech, a design house for digital video-audio chips used in set-top boxes for interactive television, videoconferencing and IP video streaming for the consumer ...
Corio service to tackle legacy applications management; New offering provides hosting, storage and account management for a single monthly fee.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... SAN CARLOS, CALIF. - Corio has come up with a fresh twist on its application service offerings. Rather than just deliver new applications to customers, the company is also going to support customers' existing applications. Corio's Intelligent Infrastructure service will offer ...
FTC delays decision on AOL/Time Warner merger.(Government Activity)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Last weeks deal which enables ISP Earthlink to offer high-speed Internet access services via Time Warner's cable network has caused the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to delay a vote on whether to block Time Warner's merger with AOL, according to a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal ....
Allied Telesyn delves deeper into Layer 3; New switch/router and LAN switch products offer Layer 3 for less; company introduces Gigabit Ethernet NIC.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... BOTHELL, WASH. - Allied Telesyn will boost its Layer 3 product line in the next few weeks when it announces five new LAN switches and a line of hardware-based switch/routers for enterprise customers and service providers. The RiverStream line of LAN switches should help network ...
Dell to announce partner in expanding storage strategy.(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Intent on venturing even further into the lucrative enterprise storage market, Dell will announce a significant expansion of its Storage Systems business unit at a conference of senior-level executives next Tuesday in New York. The expansion will include new storage devices and ...
DSL provider Covad to cut operations and jobs.(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Covad Communications in Santa Clara, Calif. will cut its workforce by 13% and canceled the construction of a third operations site in Alpharetta, Ga., the company announced yesterday. By taking these steps, the digital subscriber line (DSL) service provider hopes to cut its ...
Dr Intranet.(Questions and Answers)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Our stand-alone Windows 2000 SR1 server runs Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS). Our VPN clients can connect to the machine and use the shared directories. However, they can't use the Web or e-mail while connected to the VPN. The server assigns IP addresses to the clients from a ...
Procom unveils high-end network-attached storage.(NetFORCE 3200 Series from Procom Technology)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Procom Technology Tuesday launched high-end network-attached storage devices for the enterprise. The NetFORCE 3200 Series has a raw capacity of over 4 terabytes per enclosure. It comes in two models - an entry-level device with dual RAID controllers and redundant fans and power ...
AT&T Broadband puts brakes on gear deliveries; Seen as a message to the financial community, the decision causes concern among vendors.(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... AT&T's cable network operator has notified its network equipment vendors that it will not accept shipments for the remainder of the quarter, a move experts describe as a signal to Wall Street that the company is serious about controlling costs. AT&T Broadband "wants to be sure ...
RecoverySafe helps heal ailing Windows systems; Software maker imagine LAN unveils browser-based tool to help users bring corrupt PCs back online.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... NASHUA, N.H. - IT executives are not only habitually concerned about how efficiently their Windows-based networks run, but how fast they can recover from inevitable failures. A new tool for addressing the latter is scheduled to ship in January from imagine LAN. The company's ...
Genesys adds VoIP to its call center suite.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... SAN FRANCISCO - Genesys last week announced a voice-over-IP software upgrade for its call center software that will let businesses distribute call center features beyond a single central site, via the Internet, to call center agents in remote or branch offices, or agents working from home ....
Motive expands online customer.(Motive Communications' Motive Olympus)(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Motive Communications, which provides software for online customer service, next week will announce a set of prepackaged, reusable software components that makes it easier to embed customer service features into complex, e-business applications. Called Olympus, the new ...
HP debuts entry-level Unix server; Company's L3000 server lets users order more power as they need it.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Looking to give enterprise users more speed and a clear upgrade path to its larger boxes, Hewlett-Packard rolled out a new Unix server last week that tops off its entry-level family. For IT managers with e-commerce sites or lots of bursty traffic, the new L3000 server, which ...
Corporate demand may prop gear sales; Service providers still expect to cut overall capital expenditures in 2001.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Corporate demand for next-generation telecom services may keep service providers buying new equipment in 2001, despite forecasts that growth in their capital expenditures will slow. Recently, concern arose that service provider capital expenditures would decrease dramatically, ...
Cost-effective trunking helps rural telco with DSL.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... McMINNVILLE, TENN. - Who says an independent telephone company in a rural area can't offer DSL service cost-effectively? For such telcos, there are two principal hurdles to overcome. One is extending DSL service by retrofitting outmoded digital-loop carrier (DLC) ...
Excite@Home with ASPs.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Corralling acquired companies onto a common IT infrastructure is an age-old challenge traditionally tackled by in-house staff. Today, some network executives are turning to application service providers for help. The lessons learned by one such company - including the critical ...
IT heavyweights form e-business consortium.(Industry Trend or Event)
Dec 04, 2000; ... A group of information technology heavyweights Wednesday is scheduled to announce the formation of the Business Internet Consortium, a neutral, nonprofit organization that will serve as a think tank for generating technologies and practices to address the challenges of implementing online ...
Entrada rolls out multifaceted IP storage router.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... SAN DIEGO - Entrada Networks last week introduced its Silverline router that promises to let companies bridge storage-area networks over WANs to replicate data or transport storage natively over IP. The Silverline router provides access for multiple transport methods such as ...
Microsoft releases second beta of FrontPage 10.(Product Development)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Microsoft Tuesday unveiled the second beta release of the next version of its FrontPage Web site creation and management software. Currently codenamed FrontPage 10, the software that should appear as a final product in the middle of next year, provides new tools for Web site creation, ...
Dell, webMethods unveil B2B offering.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Dell Tuesday unwrapped a joint-product offering with webMethods designed to give companies a relatively easy entry into the world of business-to-business e-commerce. The offer will initially benefit companies that buy equipment directly from Dell. In simple terms, the webMethods ...
Commerce One makes partnership plays in Asia.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Business-to-business e-commerce software provider Commerce One has signed partnership deals with 11 electronic marketplace providers in eight countries across Asia, the company announced Wednesday at the eLink conference in Hong Kong. Commerce One's partners in the region ...
IBM appoints its first chief privacy officer.(Company Operations)
Dec 04, 2000; ... IBM Wednesday announced the appointment of the company's first chief privacy officer, Harriet P. Pearson. Pearson will be responsible for IBM's privacy policies and practices, and will work to strengthen consumer privacy protection, according to the statement. She reports to ...
SEC charges IBM exec with insider trading.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday filed suit against IBM executive Steven J. Cowley, alleging that he made $127,288 in profits from insider trading. According to the SEC complaint, Cowley, 37, is IBM's vice president for software, working out of the company's ...
FTC to collect $72,000 from spam pyramid artists.(Government Activity)
Dec 04, 2000; ... E-mail accounts are jammed with dozens of them per week: Spam messages making outrageous claims such as "You can earn $50,000 in 90 days." Thanks to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, there's now one less spammer sending out that kind of message. The FTC Tuesday announced it had ...
HP builds on its B2B software.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Hewlett-Packard Tuesday beefed up its business software by adding a series of payment applications to its business-to-business e-commerce software based on joint development work with BroadVision. HP signed an agreement with BroadVision a year ago in order to integrate the two ...
Gateway takes first steps toward wireless.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Gateway Monday made its first move into the wireless world announcing that a wide range of Gateway PCs will come bundled with wireless products from Lucent. Targeting business, education and government clients, Gateway will use several wireless products from Lucent's ORiNOCO ...
Chicago moves to build metropolitan-area network.(Government Activity)
Dec 04, 2000; ... It may mean snaking optical fiber through sewer lines and old tunnels or burying conduits in public transportation rights-of-way, but the city of Chicago is setting plans to build a high-speed metropolitan-area network (MAN) that will be designed to link government offices, businesses, ...
MICROSOFT BLASTS JUDGE.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Microsoft and the Department of Justice were back in court last week for the opening of the software giant's appeal of the landmark antitrust ruling by a federal judge to break the company in two. Microsoft filed a 150-page brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District ...
Lucent introduces USB client for wireless systems.(Product Announcement)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Lucent Technologies on Tuesday announced a USB (Universal Serial Bus) wireless device for its Orinoco wireless networking system that the company hopes will simplify the process of setting up a wireless network. By using the Orinoco USB Client, users can wirelessly network a computer by ...
Yahoo offers encrypted e-mail.(Company Business and Marketing)
Dec 04, 2000; ... Yahoo Wednesday officially announced a feature that allows users of its e-mail service, Yahoo Mail, to send and receive encrypted messages. The feature, offered through ZixIt's SecureDelivery service, has been in beta testing for some time now, Yahoo users said. When ...