What is a router? Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs? Feds: IPv6 is a priority For the last year, it's been all quiet on the IPv6 front in the United States. But now the U.S. government is making noise about this next-generation Internet technology, as it forges ahead with plans to deploy secure, IPv6-enabled network services. It's the Internet, stupid Response to FCC Notice of Inquiry: Spending government money on broadband is not all that good unless broadband's synonymous for "Internet". Bill would limit broadband fees based on use A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would require large broadband providers to get permission from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission before rolling out broadband subscription fees based on bandwidth use. The hype surrounding cloud computing Collectively Jim and Steve have been in IT for a bunch of years. The exact number is irrelevant. As we see it, the hyperbole to reality ratio that surrounds cloud computing is higher than anything that we have seen since ATM. High-speed Ethernet on tap from Cisco rival? Juniper and the New York Stock Exchange will announce announce next week that they are building a best-of-breed financial trading network, with lightening fast quote and order fulfillment/execution response times for several billion daily transactions. Ixia responds and takes on the challenge Jimmy Ray Purser, Networking Geek to Geek: A few weeks ago, I commented about how much I liked Breaking Point over Ixia as a breath of fresh air in a stagnate market of Ethernet testing. Ixia read this blog and my twitter tweeted and my email dinged. How to reduce the high cost of T1 service Brad Reese, On Cisco: Dual Cisco CCIE #18532 Security/R&S - George Morton, argues that cable is enterprise ready and, by moving from high-end T1 MPLS-VPN services to DSL/Cable access services, a company can save a lot of money. Switch QoS Dennis Hartmann, Cisco Unified Communications: We're looking at switch based QoS coverage and QoS specifics of the 3550 switch platform. Next up is a look at the 4500, 6500, and 2960/2970/3560/3750 Catalyst family. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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