All the week's news and views about LANs, 11/08/04 _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Nortel Networks New LANs, new demands: is yours ready?
Today, converged applications are putting demands on bandwidth and network intelligence that older LAN switches weren't designed to address. Depending on your current LAN solution, your network may be unable to handle new, converged applications in the future. Go to http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88161 and take this quick LAN readiness evaluation to see if you're prepared. _______________________________________________________________ SECURTIY SUMMIT: CAN SECURITY BE A COMPETITIVE EDGE? Recently 23 prominent IT executives and academics gathered at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for a daylong roundtable to address such questions. CIOs and VPs from some of the largest and most well-known companies in the US shared with peers their security fears, goals, frustrations and challenges. Find out more: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87861 _______________________________________________________________ Network World's LANs News Alert 10G Ethernet vendors look to stoke demand, 11/08/04 Network vendors this week are expected to introduce a variety of 10G Ethernet wares aimed at customers seeking to bump up bandwidth in large data centers and campus backbones. <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/110804tengig.html?nl> Foundry beefs up features in Layer 4-7 appliances, 11/05/04 Foundry Networks this week added global server load-balancing and DNS redirection capabilities to its ServerIronGT E-series of Layer 4-7 appliances. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1105fdry.html?nl> Patent suit takes aim at Cisco routers, switches, 11/04/04 A Miami Beach, Fla., company on Tuesday sued Cisco for alleged patent infringement, charging the networking giant with stealing its routing technology. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1104patensuit.html?nl> Technologists push Ethernet to new areas, 11/02/04 Ethernet may be a commoditized technology in enterprise LANs but technologists are working to push, pull and stretch the technology into new areas and applications. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1102ethernet.html?nl> Newsletter: Asante unveils switch for small businesses, 11/02/04 Asante Technologies last week released an Ethernet switch for small and medium-sized businesses that the company is billing as "plug-and-play." <http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/lans/2004/1101lan1.html?nl> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Network World Staff Senior Writer Phil Hochmuth covers routers and switches for Network World. 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