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Review: VoWLANs By Dave Molta with Frank Bulk and Sean Ginevan The merger of wireless LANs and voice over IP could mean significant cost savings and productivity improvements for enterprise networks. Early product offerings are expensive and not fully developed, but Cisco's 7920 stands out. |
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Feature: We Asked, You Told: Our Second Annual Reader Survery By David Joachim Our second-annual reader survey reveals mounting frustration among IT professionals. You're afraid of what might happen if you lose even one more co-worker, and you see your career path stalling. Yet you remain optimistic. Why? Read on. |
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Workshop: Speaking SAML By Lori MacVittie Your identity-management system doesn't have to dictate your corporate security strategy anymore. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) provides a standard way to exchange authentication and authorization information between different vendors' other applications. |
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Buyer's Guide: Navigating Wireless AP Options
By Dave Molta Today's wireless market sports a lot of variety. But when shopping for access points and gateways, remember: Let functionality and reliability--not price--dictate. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: Wireless Access Points & Gateways Today's wireless market sports a lot of variety. Use our interactive charts to compare offerings and make the right decision for your IT needs. |
| Sneak Previews |
| IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 By Ron Anderson Aimed at businesses that need more than simple messaging, Notes-Domino provides e-mail, calendaring and group scheduling, task management, and both personal and corporate address books. |
| Rainbow Technologies' NetSwift iGate By Lori MacVittie Although iGate gives you access to virtually any TCP-based application, neither file sharing nor printing is available because iGate does not support dynamic ports. |
| Newsletter: Network Associates' Netasyst Network Analyzer By Christopher T. Beers A stripped-down version of the popular enterprise-class Sniffer product line, the Netasyst software-only products offer most of the same great features without the cost. |
| Departments |
| Letters "Through our documented lab practices, we were able to push our service provider to follow our guidelines." --J. Buton |
| Career Coach Edited by Lorna Garey This edition: Dress code enforcement and Goodbye programmer, hello middle school math teacher. |
| Quick Takes This Edition: NetBotz CCTV Adapter Pod; NextPage NXT 4; Akiva WebMeeting Appliance 3.0; and nCipher netHSM. |
| Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim This edition: Top 11 rejected methods for distributing Microsoft software patches; Frodo loves you; and Our favorite SIG files. |
| Columns |
| Down to Business: A Bridge Too Far? By Rob Preston You can't force business units to align with IT, but you can make yourself--and your organization--more valuable. |
| Buzzcut: Log Standard for Event Messages? By Bruce Boardman IBM and Cisco Systems are working together to create a log-format standard. The concept is sound, but will it hold up?
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| Buzzcut: FUDBusters By David Joachim This Edition: IT's Dark Days -- are they numbered?
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| Mister Management: Too Sexy for Our Shirts By Bruce Boardman We must make it clear to management vendors that we're willing to put our money where our mouths are. |
| Buzzcut: Voice Over WLAN: Going Places By Dave Molta VoWLAN technology is getting a face-lift, thanks to a number of significant industry developments.
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| Buzzcut: Linux Kernel 2.6 is Coming: What's in it for You? By Don MacVittie This release promises to address many of the weaknesses in the 2.4 kernel as well as fold in support for technologies developed since its last release. |
| BuzzCut: Microsoft Makes Another Security Pledge By Michael J. DeMaria As part of its plan, the company will now send out monthly, rather than weekly, patches. |
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