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Review: Scanning the Airwaves By Dave Molta & Dilip Advani Handheld wireless LAN analyzers put monitoring and troubleshooting data about your WLAN directly into the hands of your field technicians. We examined four products and bestowed top honors on AirMagnet's device. |
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Feature: On Location: Air Power By David Joachim At McCarran International Airport, information is as important to airport operations as terminals and runways. And Randall Walker, who runs the Las Vegas airport, makes sure IT has the resources to keep the place running smoothly. |
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Feature: On Location: First-Class IT Service By Jonathan Feldman Maintaining top-notch customer and tenant service is high on the agenda at McCarran International Airport. Any IT system that has such a profound effect on so many customers--2,710,352 passengers passed through the Las Vegas airport in February 2003 alone--had better be reliable. |
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Workshop: It's Time to Take a Look at SIP By Peter Morrissey Session Initiation Protocol is here, and it works. We examine how this versatile signaling protocol can help you set up collaborative multimedia conferencing and voice-enabled e-commerce. |
| Buyer's Guide: Invest in a Cable Tester By Lee Badman Unchecked problems at the physical layer can resonate all the way up to your applications. But today's slick, standards-based cable testers ferret out bad wiring. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: Cable Testers Whether you're looking for traffic patterns or want to debug a protocol miscue or simply monitor a troublesome link, use our buyer's guide to help compare cable testers across 25 features and criteria. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Cover Your Assets ... Remotely By Michael Brandenburg Procom's ProMobile pairs a PDA-size USB 2.0 external hard drive with a flexible backup application, providing portable automated backup for your data. |
| Absolute Power By Lee Badman Electrical power may not be glamorous, but it's crucial to any network. Cyclades Corp.'s new AlterPath PM8 IPDU (intelligent power-distribution unit) will manage your electrical power for you, and help you build an overall data-center fault-management strategy. |
| Giving Spreadsheets Extra Juice By Lori MacVittie With the imminent release of Microsoft Office 11, vendors of related products are jockeying for position. Juice Software's client-server suite--though expensive--builds on Excel, turning it into a real-time, collaborative environment. |
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| Last Mile Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and Dave Joachim This Edition: Top 11 reasons Microsoft exhibits at open-source trade shows; mistaken indemnity; and crystal-ball clear. |
| Letters "Most organizations will not realize the benefits IT can provide until they adjust their business practices." --Tom Clifford |
| Quick Takes We take peeks at NetVision Integrated Security Policy Management 4.0, KnowledgeBase Solutions KnowledgeBase.net 3.0, Interwoven OpenDeploy 5.6 and Sarvega XESOS Studio. |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey This week: seeking a management role and a LAN administrator ponders if a master's degree might help. |
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| BuzzCut: 2003 Server Mystery By Lori MacVittie Microsoft is encouraging customers to migrate to Windows Server 2003, but it's not clear why they should. And Microsoft isn't helping them build a business case to do so. |
| BuzzCut: BFUDBuster By Ron Anderson Microsoft has asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court's ruling that requires the company to include Sun's Java with Windows XP. |
| Developing Trends: Cross the Platform, Get on Board By Rob Preston "Clearly it's time to start honing those cross-platform development skills again." |
| Down to Business: IT Can Deliver the Goods By Rob Preston "Don't underestimate IT's ability to evaluate technologies based on their financial potential." |
| Industry Insights: Retirement Planning By Mike Lee "You have to continually evaluate new products so you know the options should you need to make a change." |
| BuzzCut: Big Changes In Store For Enterprise Wi-Fi Networks By Dave Molta Are you planning to sign a big purchase order for enterprise WLAN infrastructure anytime soon? You might want to hold off until new technology hits the market. |
| BuzzCut: Sun Scraps Its Own Linux By Don MacVittie Sun Microsystems says it will stop developing its own Linux distribution for x86 and will instead support other vendors' distributions. If you're a Sun customer and/or are interested in Linux, this is good news. http://www.nwc.com/1407/1407buzz2.html |
| BuzzCut: IT Spending May Suprise Forecasters
By Dave Molta International Data Corp. has downgraded its 2003 forecast for worldwide IT spending growth. |
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