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Network World Daily News: AM, 08/01/07 Live Chat today Secrets of IP routing with Jeff Doyle: 2 p.m. EDT, today. Routing guru Jeff Doyle will answer your questions on routing, Internet scaling and the meaning of life. Just point your browser here to join in the discussion. Nortel lands huge VoIP win Nortel’s Government Solutions arm has won a $300 million, 10-year contract to outfit the U.S. Social Security Administration with an IP-telephony system. AT&T, IBM among winners of $50B federal deal The U.S. federal government has selected 29 companies including AT&T, IBM and EDS for its massive 10 year, $50 billion IT services deal known as Alliant. Manage Skyrocketing Storage The data on your network is growing at a rapid pace that's only going to increase. Download Network World's latest Executive Guide and get the practical, real-world advice and insider information you need to best manage and meet your storage demands and industry regulations. Click here to download. | | Regulatory-compliance demands put IT on the spot Meeting the goal of regulatory compliance means running a tight security ship. When auditors come calling, however, how can you prove that you do? Security managers share their tips on how high tech and plain old communication skills can make the difference between passing and failing. FCC embraces open access for 700MHz auction The FCC Tuesday set the conditions on a chunk of valuable wireless spectrum to be auctioned by early next year, putting open-access rules on a third of the spectrum. Apple faces mounting complaints on iPhone battery Officials in New York state asked Apple on Monday to change its iPhone design to allow consumers to replace their own batteries, just days after lawyers in Illinois filed a class-action lawsuit over the same complaint. Microsoft, Eolas seek to settle patent rift out of court Microsoft is seeking to settle its long-running patent suit with Eolas Technologies through negotiations rather than heading back to the courtroom. IBM helps customers get a supercomputer on the cheap IBM ratcheted the world of supercomputing up a few notches in June with the Blue Gene/P, a system nearly three times as fast as its predecessor at a cost of $1.3 million per rack. BreakingPoint unveils BPS-1000 network-test appliance Start-up BreakingPoint Systems on Tuesday unveiled its first product, a network-performance and -security test appliance called the BPS-1000, designed to evaluate routers and switches. Forum What's the best bargain on enterprise network products you've ever gotten? Bought a bunch of Cisco routers for a song? Nabbed Windows Vista (legally) for a great price? We know people love to brag about saving money. Here's your chance to show your peers just how smart or lucky you've been. And if there are lessons to be learned here, all the better. We plan to write a story based on the best stuff. Join our discussion now. Blogs Today at Cisco Subnet Cisco Subnet blogger Michael Morris has posted some more details from a private meeting between Cisco and 50 CCIEs about Cisco's plans for two advanced certifications for network designers and architects. Blogger Brad Reese has unearthed a video of a wireless breakthrough that we hope doesn't get seed funding. Continuing his series on Implementing IPv6, IP routing expert Jeff Doyle lays out the training agenda for your engineers and operators Buzzblog: IE 'most influential' product in 25 years By making "most influential" the standard for a survey in conjunction with its 25th anniversary, the Computing Technology Industry Association all but guaranteed the results this poll: IE No. 1; Microsoft taking 4 of top 5 spots. … Notice they didn't ask about "best." Today on Layer 8 where we prefer horsepower over raw size any day: What has 28 tires, weighs 130 tons, features 1,400 horse-power diesel engines, is 33 feet wide, 66 feet long and almost 20 feet high? No it’s not the new Hummer, but a humongous truck-like vehicle for carrying massive high-tech antennas up the sides of mountains. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) vehicles have their dainty side as well. |
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