The recycling of IT; Internet Society invests in W3C

Internet Society invests in W3C; AT&T San Francisco outage caused by hardware problem Wide Area Networking Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Talari Networks Dramatically Reduce WAN Costs with Adaptive Private Networking Increase WAN bandwidth while lowering costs and improving reliability with Adaptive Private Networking (APN). You can get 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar spent. APN appliances treat these connections from multiple service providers as one aggregate while improving key WAN metrics including loss, latency and jitter. Not only can you expect to lower your WAN bill by 40% to 90% you can also expect a quick return on investment with APN. View this Webcast! Spotlight Story The recycling of IT Jim is currently in San Jose and was struck by the fact that he can walk into almost any new startup and run into several people that he knew years ago when one or both of them worked for other companies. One could come away from this type of experience and conclude that there really are only a small number of people who work in IT and they just recycle over time. That conclusion would be a bit fanciful. However, as we will discuss in the next two newsletters, it is not fanciful to deduce that there is a small set of key IT concepts and they do recycle over time. Read full story Related News: Internet Society invests in W3C The Internet Society announced Friday that it was making a $2.5 million donation over the next three years to the World Wide Web Consortium, the premier standards-setting body for the Web. AT&T San Francisco outage caused by hardware problem A hardware problem in downtown San Francisco caused an outage on AT&T's 3G voice and data network Friday evening, but the carrier expected the problem to be fixed by about 6:15 p.m. Pacific time, an AT&T spokesman said. 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