How networking is transforming healthcare Mike McGill, program director for Internet2's Health Sciences Initiative, talked with Network World about how he believes gigabit-speed networks and telemedicine applications such as telepathology, telesurgery and telepsychiatry can transform the healthcare industry. Riverbed virtualizes its WAN optimization controllers Riverbed Technology is introducing a virtual version of its WAN optimization controller that makes it less expensive for small businesses to get into optimizing traffic between individual machines and corporate offices. Avaya set to buy Nortel enterprise business for $475 million As expected, Nortel has entered into a "stalking horse" asset and share sale agreement with Avaya for its Enterprise Solutions business. Juniper's new security and performance solutions As the way we do work and the technology we do this with changes, networking vendor Juniper Networks has introduced what it's calling its intelligent security and performance solutions for distributed enterprises. Running blind There are products in the market that provide granular visibility. But in many cases IT organizations have not been able to justify the investment in tools and processes that it takes to get this visibility. Qwest rolls out 40Mbps VDSL2 service Qwest is offering a VDSL2 Internet service that the company says will provide maximum download speeds of 40Mbps and maximum upload speeds of 20Mbps. Google wants to take you to the Moon With the Moon in Google Earth feature, you can take a virtual trip to the moon and view landing sites (narrated by Apollo astronauts), models of spacecraft, see astronauts' footprints and watch other rare footage. 3G-satellite system coming to AT&T gets first call Though not as dramatic as the moon landing that took place 40 years ago, a phone call over a satellite launched earlier this month was the first for a system that may dramatically expand mobile voice and data coverage in the U.S. and Canada. A guide to online data syncing services Remember the early days of PDAs? They revolutionized the concept of a planner by combining calendars, contacts and notes into a compact, easy-to-carry device that could be connected to and synced with your computer. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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