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February 17, 2005    
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Enterprise WLANs Bust Out
By Dave Molta
Last year, wireless gear shattered the billion-dollar market ceiling. We expect 2005 to usher in even greater growth as standards and products mature. Join us as we examine the wireless gear market and survey the changing vendor landscape.
Review: Top WLAN Gear
By Frank Bulk
We pitted four top names in wireless against one another in a bruising battery of testing. Our previous review's Editor's Choice repeated its victory, thanks to its well-designed switches and sophisticated access points.
Review: Content Switches
By Lori MacVittie
Our parent company needed a new Layer 7 switch, and we needed a testing scenario. The result was a joint review of content switches from four top names. These devices can dig deep into payloads and have made strides in configurability. See which won our Editor's Choice--and which company received a purchase order from CMP Media.
Affordable IT: Value Assessment
By Tim Wilson
Metrics like ROI and TCO can help you build a strong business case for IT purchases, but they're not perfect. We'll show you how to assess a technology's value.
Online Only Feature: Itanium and Opteron Pit Power Against Compatibility
By Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
Intel's 64-bit Itanium processing architecture looked like a sure winner--until AMD's Opteron brought x86 compatibility into the mix.

Workshops
How to Measure Call Quality
By Peter Morrissey
We dig into the different algorithms and approaches for monitoring and measuring the quality of calls in voice over IP implementations.
Buyer's Guide: VPN Gateways
By Michael J. DeMaria
A VPN gateway provides three essentials for your data: authentication, confidentiality and integrity. We show you what to look for in an enterprise-class device.

View our Interactive Buyer's Guide on VPN Gateways.

Sneak Previews
Novell Open Enterprise Server 1.0
By James E. Drews
ANetWare + Linux = OES. Novell brings NetWare to Linux, but beware. Missing components in Linux, such as NSS features, may have you holding off until the next release.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
By Lori MacVittie
Linux 4 adds Logical Volume Manager 2 and directory support for better stability and performance. But poor documentation and complicated SELinux policy management could spell trouble.
Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional
By Bruce Boardman
Ipswitch splits its monitoring tool into versions for small businesses and professional networks.

Departments
Last Mile
Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson
This edition looks at the Top 11 reasons Wayne Newton would make a good IT professional; building your own Block I Apollo guidance computer; and a do-it-yourself iPod shuffle solution.
Quick Takes
By Patricia Thomas
This edition looks at Realm Systems' Mobile Personal Server and SOBA Router, Empirix's e-Test Suite 8.0, Zix Corp.'s ZixVPM 2.3 and NotePage's rss2html.php.
Letters
By NWC Readers
Jim Bodkin shares, "My children have no desire to pursue a technology career, and for good reason. I would not recommend the field to anyone."
Columns
Down to Business: Telecom Players Devoid of Vision
By Rob Preston
Witness Qwest's renewed interest in acquiring MCI--a sad case of the weak pursuing the barely reincarnated.
Air Time: The Delicate Balance of Wireless Security
By Dave Molta
Wireless security demands the juggling of technology, risk assessment and politics--and more effective industry solutions.
Reality IT: Server Consolidation Takes Time
By Hunter Metatek
No matter what you may hear, an initiative like this is not as straightforward as it seems. And smart IT people know enough to take their time--or risk making a big mistake.
BuzzCuts
SBC-ATT and VoIP Spell Telecom History
By Peter Morrissey
With the purchase of AT&T, SBC has an opportunity to put Ma Bell back together again--at least partially.
EMC Gets SMARTS
By Bruce Boardman
EMC bought SMARTS, an event correlation and exception management tool vendor, for $260 million. Can the storage vendor make it as an enterprise management tool vendor?
PeopleSoft Users Weigh DB2 Options
By Richard Hoffmann
Oracle says it will not force PeopleSoft's DB2 users to switch to the Oracle database. But IBM isn't taking any chances and enterprises shouldn't, either.
BuzzCut: Congress Weighs Tax on VoIP and PBX-Enabled Enterprise Networks
By Sean Doherty
The Joint Committee on Taxation has recommended that internal corporate networks pay an excise tax for VoIP and other PBX-enabled services.
FUDBuster: Web Sites Favored in Liability Suit
By Tim Wilson
Webmasters have been paranoid about being sued for nasty or libelous comments made by users in their newsgroups and chat rooms. Find out what a New Jersey appeals court ruled on the subject.

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