Hello, Gorgeous! 15 of the Greatest Tech Designs Ever Drool over these beautiful Blu-ray players, great gaming PCs, superb storage devices, celebrated cell phones, and many more innovative technology designs. Ex-Nortel exec leads rescue bidder's advisory team A private equity firm looking to counter Nokia Siemens' bid for Nortel's wireless assets has assembled an advisory team for the offer, led by a former Nortel executive. Proxim takes aim at 4G wireless Proxim has released two new wireless broadband products, one for affordable, long-range backhaul, the second for high-capacity last-mile access. Delay Tolerant Networking: How to use Twitter and Hulu on long space missions Jimmy Ray Purser takes a close look at DTN, the protocol used for data communications between remote spacecraft and Earth. IPv6 Traffic: Do Not be Overly Alarmed Some recent Network World articles have been written about the fact that organizations have IPv6 traffic on them even though they have not explicitly enabled IPv6 on their hosts or network devices. I don't want you to overreact to this news or to unnecessarily spread fear-uncertainty-and-doubt about IPv6. Has the Golden Age of CCIE Passed? Once upon a time, if you wanted to work in networking, and you wanted to remain a technologist, and you wanted certs to demonstrate your skills, CCIE was clearly the one end goal of your certification future. But the world keeps changing, so today, I want us to consider whether CCIE is clearly on a downward path. Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability 'self-inflicted,' says scientist Mozilla has confirmed the first bug in the Firefox 3.5 browser that was launched about two weeks ago. A centralized approach to end-to-end network monitoring As Fortune 500 production networks grow in size and scope, so does the demand for achieving total network visibility. One hundred percent visibility is essential to realizing the rigorous five-nines uptime standard, and failing to monitor all points on the network can lead to costly outages or increase the time to resolution -- resulting in revenue losses as well as customer dissatisfaction. Navy spends $33 million for hybrid of the high seas Some might call it an enormous floating Prius, but others will call it a step in the right direction: A new hybrid electric engine for US Navy ships that promises to save up to 12,000 barrels of oil a year per ship. 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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