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  • Nortel warns Telstra winners

    Nortel Networks was disappointed to miss out in Telstra's recent round of billion dollar networking hardware contracts, but last week warned the winners they had better shape up or face being shipped out.

  • Networking companies going haywire?

    Recent market movements by networking heavyweights Lucent and Cisco indicate shaky ground in the networking arena. Meanwhile, Intel may be shifting its focus from wired to wire-less, say analysts.

  • Cisco, Lucent jump into storage networking

    Sending data between computers and storage systems has been a job handled by a few small, highly specialised companies, but that's changing as new technology allows networking giants such as Cisco Systems to get into the act.

  • Is Cisco ready for 2001?

    The state of the network equipment market as the year 2000 comes to a close may prove challenging for the company.

  • Is fibre-optic construction creating overkill?

    Telecommunications carriers have laid thousands of miles of fibre-optic cables in the ground, but some analysts suggest the companies have dug themselves into a deep hole.

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Competition still matters

    Let's not go back to the bad old days where telco and vendor incumbents were unchallenged.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Huawei and cultural values

    Last week I gained first hand insight into how one of the up and comers in networking is putting price pressure on heavyweights like Cisco, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.

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  • Flaws threaten VoIP networks

    A technical review conducted by the British government has found several security flaws in products that use VoIP and text messaging, including those from Microsoft and Cisco Systems.

  • Microsoft releases three new security bulletins

    Microsoft has released a batch of updates that affect Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC).

  • Metro Ethernet cruises toward mainstream

    A new set of standards announced by the International Telecommunications Union could make it easier for telephone and Internet service providers to offer Ethernet services over their existing networks.

  • No WLAN? You still need wireless security

    Just because your company hasn't deployed wireless networks doesn't mean you shouldn't be concerned with at least one form of wireless security: prevention of rogue access points.

  • Multiprotocol label switching makes for mainstream

    After years of hype, MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) may finally be an acronym whose time has come.

Reviews (3)

  • Voice over IP: Security, stability, success

    If you're thinking about voice over IP, we take a look at the steps involved in getting it set up and what's on offer from four major vendors.

  • Wireless lans get to work

    Wireless LANs have finally matured into a viable and affordable means of extending your wired network.

  • Toshiba Bluetooth PC Card

    For over a year, member companies of the Bluetooth Consortium have been telling us how the Bluetooth’s fast, easy wireless connection capabilities will change the world of portable computing.

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