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| October 2nd, 2003 | |
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Feature: Generation W By Dave Molta Wireless LAN gear for the enterprise doesn't make the grade -- but that's about to change. |
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Review: New WLAN on Campus By Dave Molta and Jesse Lindeman Seven wireless LAN vendors went back to school outfitting new digs for SU's School of Information Studies. But only Airespace earned our bid. |
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Workshop: Telephony 101 By Joe Hernick The lines between voice and data infrastructures are starting to blur, so learning how to integrate and support telecom devices and technologies is a must. |
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Buyer's Guide: iSCSI SANs By Steven J. Schuchart Jr. Fibre Channel isn't your only option. iSCSI SANs offer lower cost, easier deployment and greater distance. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: iSCSI SANs In today's fast-paced environment, organizations require effective ways to store and maintain their data. iSCSI SANs can help solve the problem of manageability of large and ever increasing amounts of disk storage. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Datacom Systems' Switch Control Server By Lee Badman This tiny server lets users manage their resource-sharing matrix switches from any network point. |
| Network Associates InfiniStream Security Forensics By Curtis Franklin Jr. InfiniStream provides high-end tracking of absolutely everything. |
| ProactiveNet 5.1 By Bruce Boadman Combines enhancements in it's root-cause analysis with an improved operational fit and a completely redesigned user interface. |
| Departments |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey Is it illegal for a prospective employer to ask your age? Plus, the pros and cons of managing your own income-tax and health-insurance records. |
| Quick Takes This edition: InfoCyclone's InfoCyclone; Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold; Network Associates' McAfee IntruShield 1200; and Empirixes e-Test Suite for Web Services. |
| Letters "Our video system was sending alerts on parking-space lines. They don't move, but the system thought otherwise." Larry Williams |
| Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim This Edition: Top 11 IT Benefits of a Multistate Blackout; My Favorite Post; Best Worst-Server-Name Winners. |
| Columns |
| Down to Business: License To Surf? By Rob Preston Certifying users might feel like we're advancing Internet literacy, but it wouldn't ensure knowledge or compliance. |
| Buzzcut: TechXNY: Nothing Doing By Bruce Boardman TechXNY used to be a killer show, with wall-to-wall attendance and tons of new product announcements. Used to be. |
| Buzzcut: FUDBusters By Michael J. DeMaria Vulnerabilities found in Pine, KDE, Sendmail and OpenSSH. |
| What Lies Beneath: The Straight and Narrow By Peter Morrissey Take time to plan your gigabit-to-the-desktop trip, and watch the prices plummet by the time you're ready to roll. |
| Buzzcut: VeriSign, Hero To the Spammers By Ron Anderson VeriSign has been entrusted as the authoritative directory provider for all .com and .net domains, and its behavior this year has violated that trust. |
| Buzzcut: Atheros Ups The WLAN Ante By Dave Molta Should Atheros wait for the IEEE to develop standards innovations and withhold features that solve real-world problems? |
| BuzzCut: Will Anyone Come to Sun's Licensing Party? By Don MacVittie Sun has made big news with the unveiling of the Java Desktop System and Java Enterprise System, which bundle previously separate software pieces. |
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