What's required of a next-generation WAN firewall

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Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail. RELATED NEWS: Cisco souped up cable modem races at 1Gbps Cisco demonstrated - well, showed a slide anyway - of a concept to make a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem perform at 1Gbps through the use of optical networks. 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