 WAN News AlertThis newsletter is sponsored by CitrixWAN News Alert, 11/02/07Gitmo gets high-bandwidth makeover, 11/01/07: The U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, notorious as the prison for enemy combatants, poses a lot of other thorny problems, including a copper communications infrastructure extremely unfriendly to high-speed networking. Streamcore emphasizes WAN visibility and reporting, 11/01/07: WAN application performance is one of those IT areas that are of interest not only to IT staff but also to business managers, since application delivery is so closely tied to employee productivity. But the metrics IT managers are interested in monitoring may differ -- not surprisingly -- from those business managers want to track. Podcast: How IT service providers are accelerating ROI: A shift in the IT services space is being caused by the growth of solution accelerators, internally developed software that can customize a particular business process or aspect of product development for several clients. Denise and Alex talk with Forrester VP and Principal Analyst John McCarthy about recent research on solution accelerators. Find out what factors are driving IT services firms to develop these, how they compare with framework attempts, and what how it will impact enterprise IT's use of IT services (13:15).
All about IP routing with Jeff Doyle : Got questions about IP routing, Internet scaling, NSF, NSR, IPv6, OSPF and BPG? Author and routing expert Jeff Doyle, celebrity blogger for Cisco Subnet, will answer all your questions on networking, routing and anything else you want to ask in a live chat on Wed. Nov. 7 from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EST. Ethernet vs. MPLS in the WAN, 10/26/07: Ethernet expands into the WAN and now provides an alternative to wide-area pureplay MPLS. Which technology will win out is anyone’s guess, analysts say. NTT DoCoMo admits subscriber losses cause crisis, 11/01/07: A senior executive at NTT DoCoMo said on Thursday the Japanese mobile carrier is in crisis over subscriber losses in the last year. Covad sells to private-equity firm for $304 million, 10/30/07: Platinum Equity plans to acquire Covad Communications for about $304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private-equity firm. CLECs vs. Bells, 10/26/07: It’s been more than a decade since Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act with the intent of helping competitive exchange carriers compete against the regional Bell companies. In that time, however, competition for local phone services has ... U.S. Department of Justice vs. AT&T, 10/26/07: The Department of Justice’s antitrust filing against AT&T did break up the carrier – at least for a good 25 years. South Africa opens up SAT-3 cable system, 10/31/07: Beginning Thursday, monopoly control over Africa's SAT- 3 cable system will officially come to an end, amid fears that the network will run into capacity problems as early as 2009. Cable vs. DSL, 10/26/07: Cable companies have given telcos a run for their money in broadband services, and the competition has driven down prices. The Network World IT Buyer's Guides provide comprehensive, detailed information on how to select, test, buy and deploy thousands of network and IT products. The new Network World IT Buyer's Guides offer even more features than before, here's just one that's worth checking out: WAN Traffic Optimization and Application Acceleration Editor's note: Starting Nov. 12 week, you will notice a number of enhancements to Network World newsletters that will provide you with more resources and more news links relevant to the newsletter's subject. Beginning Monday, Nov. 12, the Wide Area Networking Newsletter, written by Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler, will be merged with the WAN News Alert and will be named the Wide Area Networking Alert. You'll get Steve and Jim's analysis of the convergence and WAN market, which you will be able to read in full at NetworkWorld.com, plus links to the day's WAN news and other relevant resources. This Alert will be mailed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We hope you will enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters. |
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