Lumension drops compliance software and buys startup; Evolution of Ethernet

100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet Compliance Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Dell Simplifying the Data Center Dell provides a fully engineered, end-to-end, holistic virtualization solution that includes hardware, services and support for Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V. Read this white paper to find out how the Dell virtualization solution is both cost-effective and easy to manage, and it ensures high availability with enterprise performance and stability. Spotlight Story Lumension drops compliance software and buys startup By John E. Dunn Lumension Security, formerly PatchLink, has bought Texas-based Securityworks with the intention of transplanting its compliance and risk assessment product in place of its own. Read full story Related News: Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Slideshow: Evolution of Ethernet The IEEE is pushing Ethernet to unimaginable speeds, with the 40/100Gigabit Ethernet standard expected to be ratified in 2010 and Terabit Ethernet on the drawing board for 2015. Here's a timeline showing key milestones in the growth of Ethernet. 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet IT managers who are getting started with - or even pushing the limits of - 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speeds. Pre-standard 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products are expected to hit the market later this year. Performance tiers and testing needed for 802.11n As noted last time, new types of potentially attractive, useful 802.11n products are set to emerge that the Wi-Fi Alliance is currently not equipped to test and certify. Faster Bluetooth 3.0 Launches with WiFi Twist The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Tuesday officially launched Bluetooth 3.0 with some big claims for the short-range wireless standard. The biggest improvement for the new standard is speed, which jumps from a top transfer rate of 3 Mbps found in the current Bluetooth standard to 24 Mbps in 3.0, according to the Bluetooth SIG. Faster speeds are accomplished because 3.0 employs the 802.11 radio protocol--basically allowing the Bluetooth protocol to piggyback on a Wi-Fi signal when transferring large amounts of data like videos, music and photos. 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