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Aiming to make Internet transactions over Palm's handheld devices more secure, RSA Security this week introduced the company's first security product for Palm.
The high-profile demises of business-oriented wireless service providers such as Winstar, Teligent and Metricom has given the wireless access market a black eye, but a study from The Yankee Group released this week found that wireless ISPs targeting residential users in rural areas are having some success.
LMDS is a broadband wireless point-to-multipoint communication system operating above 20 GHz (depending on country of licensing) that can be used to provide digital two-way voice, data, Internet, and video services...
Wireless Cable is a broadband service that delivers addressable multichannel television programming, Internet access, data transfer services, and other interactive services over a terrestrial microwave platform.
If you are looking to boost the speed of your wireless LAN infrastructure, the arrival of 802.11a wireless Ethernet products that use the 5-GHz frequency range should be a good thing.
Enterprise voice over IP will gain momentum this week at the VoiceCon show, where vendors from the old and new worlds of telecom will introduce products that could help IT professionals scale IP PBX systems to new heights and improve voice-over-IP network management.
Those who might still wonder whether voice over IP is fundamental to the enterprise or just a fad need only reflect on the volume of discussion to recognize its importance.
Cisco released new versions of its PIX firewalls that the company says will process filtered IP traffic more quickly than previous PIX devices, and support IP voice protocols and VPN tunnel encryption.
Set-top digital cable boxes from Motorola will include Nortel technology for making inexpensive Internet phone calls, once the fruit of a collaborative agreement announced Monday between the two companies hits the market.
Network processors – chips that aim to make it easier for system vendors to develop packet-processing equipment like routers and application-aware switches – have now arrived at the interest-from-engineers stage.
After months of contentious debate, the House has passed, by a 273 to 157 vote, legislation that would permit regional Bell companies to offer nationwide high-speed Internet access without having to open their local telephone markets to competition.
After many delays and contentious industry debate, the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, better known as the Tauzin-Dingell bill, is scheduled for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday.
While IDC predicts that the market for Ethernet LAN and routing gear will rebound this year from a 2001 slump, sales figures for the fourth quarter of last year show the road to recovery could be long.
The new device is tiny and inexpensive, and its autouplink feature lets you connect a variety of devices using one cable.
Acronyms are the bane of our IT existence. They've been produced in such volume that, even within the networked world we've ended up with duplicates with different spell-outs... But now network vendors have upped the ante by giving us VPN and VPN.
Worldwide firewall revenues totaled $1.7 billion and dedicated VPN hardware revenues totaled $1.3 billion in 2001, and are forecasted to reach $3.8 billion and $2.9 billion in 2005, respectively, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly worldwide market share and forecast service, VPN and Firewall Products.
Imagine this telephone company advertisement: "DSL – all the network connectivity you'll ever need." It's a joke, right?
Residential customers still buy the majority of DSL connections, but providers are enhancing their DSL offerings to make the technology more appealing to business users.
Companies are looking at using remote office solutions to lower costs through leased line expenses and to use remote access as a recruitment and retention tool at a time when working from home is an increasingly attractive alternative.
Cisco Systems, Inc. announced it has expanded its Cisco Mobile Office: At Home program, enabling channel partners to offer complete corporate home office solutions to their customers.
As storage software moves beyond backup and recovery tools, the revenue leaders are focusing on infrastructure and resource management. The NSM leaders have relied on legacy mainframe and backup tools to maintain revenue.
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