eWeek articles from June 2001

eWeek archives from June 2001

Show me the IT skills - Readers debate the number of IT jobs and the number of people qualified to fill them.(Letter to the Editor)
June 4, 2001... Big Talk I own a small consulting firm in La Crosse, Wis. There are a lot of people out there claiming to have IT skills ("Testing the new IT job pool," May 21, Page 49). They talk big and even have the paper to back it up in many cases....

Java: Boring has its virtues.(Technology Information)
June 4, 2001... This week, as the faithful turn out for sun's sixth annual JavaOne Java developers conference, we're struck by how, well, boring JavaOne has gotten. n Gone is the glitter of a possible new Windows killer, a new operating system and the whole...

Dressed up to distraction.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 4, 2001... Whatever they're drinking at forrester re- search, please keep it out of my water. The research company's report on May 17, envisioning what it calls The X Internet, misperceives the Internet's advantages and ignores decades of research into...

B2B'S silver lining emerges.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... One year ago, at a key b2b conference, groundzero No. 3, attendees were literally fighting for seats at the crowded Boston Park Plaza hotel to hear various vertical marketplace operators explain how they were going to take over the world or at...

City folk seek out fast Web access.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 4, 2001... The number of u.s. homes with broadband Internet access jumped 134 percent in the past year, to 16 million, according to a recent report by Nielsen/NetRatings Inc., of Milpitas, Calif. The report also indicated that nearly one-third of the...

Broadband users like to shop online.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... U.s. households with broadband Internet access are 60 percent more likely to buy online than are their dial-up counterparts, according to a new study from Centris Inc., a research company in Philadelphia. The study also found that...

Souping up wireless - XHTML will ease writing of apps for all types of devices.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... Sometimes Cindy Groner must feel like she's swimming in circles in a sea of acronyms. As director of mobile traveler services at Sabre Inc., Groner oversees a team of wireless developers who, in the process of coming up with new wireless...

XHTML backed by the big boys.(Technology Information)
June 4, 2001... The certainty that xhtml basic will emerge as the standard language for next-generation wireless devices lies in the fact that it is backed by two organizations with tremendous clout: the WAP Forum, owner of the Wireless Application Protocol...

Still master of its domain - CRM shows Sierra Health Services a better way.(use Onyx Software's Onyx Front Office)(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... Until the late 1990s, health Plan of Nevada, a health maintenance organization based in Las Vegas, was a happy settler on the frontier of Nevada's HMO landscape. In fact, it was the only real settler in the state's HMO lineup, enjoying almost...

Look before you link to other Web sites.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... The internet often reminds me of a giant kaleidoscope with its colorful maze linking users from one Web site to another. But beware as you go about making your site part of the maze. Connecting your site to others by linking and framing has...

It isn't the net, stupid-it's the computers.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 4, 2001... The internet mantra used to be "creating online businesses will disintermediate brick-and-mortars." Why pay for multiple middlemen, the thinking went, when you can buy and sell goods and services directly, courtesy of the Internet?Well, that...

The dynamic role of E-biz VP - Celanese VP's job changes at the speed of e-biz.(Tom Myers)(Company Operations)
June 4, 2001... Talk about rapid-change agents: Tom Myers is finding that the duties of his new job as Celanese AG vice president for e-business are prone to mutate as fast as methyl acetate dissolves phenolic resins. A mere nine months after the chemicals...

CLECs push lawmakers to break up bells - Small, local carriers are charging RBOCs with anti-competitive practices.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... Like many small-business owners, Doreen Mastandrea is eager to cut costs when she sees an opportunity. So when a friend told her in 1998 about a company called ServiSense Inc., which provides not only local and long-distance telephone service...

App manages HR, projects - But Oracle software faces competition from PeopleSoft and Lawson.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... The new project resource management application from Oracle Corp. provides software designed to help companies better manage their human capital. The PJRM application, which began shipping late last month, enables organizations to manage...

Bulking up Internet docs.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Paper fly corp. has introduced Version 2.0 of its online document management service. The service, available immediately, improves on the previous version with 256-layer subfoldering, shared folders, multitasking, folder batching and...

Opening e-mail on the phone.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... A new software connector lets mobile workers access e-mail from a wireline or wireless telephone. Called Informio SpeedMail, the product from Informio Inc., of Lexington, Mass., allows people on the move to enter their e-mail systems...

Legacy systems link to the Net.(Vitria Technology's EDI Module 3.0, B2Bi Server and B2Bi Express Partner Server)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Companies looking to conduct business over the Internet need to find ways of using their legacy systems in business-to-business transactions and getting partners online quickly. Vitria Technology Inc. last month introduced three products...

Cisco and Intel join forces.(marketing agreement to promote Gigabit Ethernet)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... To fuel gigabit ethernet network deployment, Cisco Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., and Intel Corp., of Santa Clara, Calif., clinched a joint marketing agreement late last month. The manufacturers are packaging Cisco switches with Intel...

Online payment systems.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Controlling transactions through easy access Enhanced routing CommWorks Corp. upgraded its Total Control 1000 transaction gateway to offer enhanced routing, accounting and reporting features. Single-dial access The gateway can handle...

GroupWise shows Novell's strengths.
June 4, 2001... Has novell turned another corner? In his review below, Technical Analyst Shammi Gill says the embattled company could be showing some muscle with the release of GroupWise 6, a compelling upgrade to Novell's already-solid (if unspectacular)...

'Good' viruses or system scourges?
June 4, 2001... Last month, a new worm crawled onto systems through a security hole. But this one, called the Cheese Worm, came in peace, patching the security hole that it had used to get in, then looking around for other systems to fix. Why not use...

Taking linux in hand - Although rough, VR3 shows OS' promise for PDAs.(Agenda Computing's Agenda Computing Agenda VR3)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... In recent months, Linux has gained strength as a server operating system and has made slow but steady progress on the client desktop. However, a less apparent but perhaps more lucrative stage on which Linux may shine is that of the handheld...

GroupWise 6 puts more users on same page.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... The latest upgrade to novell Inc.'s GroupWise collaboration software should help the company win back lost customers and possibly woo some new ones. GroupWise 6's messaging and collaboration tools put new emphasis on mobile device access....

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... NetDetector has total recall A product that's just a few months old is providing a way of taking the long view in network security. Niksun Inc. (www. niksun.com) takes a new approach with its Net- Detector by building a network traffic...

Confessions of a former consultant.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... A new report has it that it consultants are the first things to go during a downturn in the economy. No wonder all the great projects throughout time have been created during depressions! Seriously, as much as I'd like to joke that...

IBM's Unix server is scalable, fast.(IBM pSeries 660 6H1)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... Ibm's latest midrange enterprise Unix server, the pSeries 660 Model 6H1, offers plenty of processing power and high availability features to tackle e-business applications in today's Web hosting, ERP and CRM environments. As a member of...

Intel's Itanium: A chip without a home?(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... At long last, intel has released its long-awaited itanium 64-bit processor to the masses. The major questions that remain are where-and even whether-the Itanium fits into today's corporate networks.Based on briefings I have had with Intel and...

Are good worms a good way to plug security gaps or just system intrusion?(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Recently, a new worm appeared on the internet, but unlike other worms, this one didn't infect systems with a virus or turn them into zombie systems for launching denial-of-service attacks. What horrible thing did this worm, called the Cheese...

It's time we started immunizing systems.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... Taken individually, the cheese Worm is not a good thing. The last thing we need is another invasion by some nameless hacker using up our network resources. But when I first heard about it, I couldn't escape the feeling that this is the...

Crackers: Your help is not wanted here.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... Thanks but no thanks. That's what I say to those anonymous crackers who had decided to "help" out by releasing the Cheese Worm last month. Cheese is certainly a "c00l" hack, but that definitely doesn't make it acceptable or responsible...

Is Palm's slump bad news for developers? Zframe, others still making wireless products that depend on Palm platform.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... Despite the scrapped merger deals and inventory problems plaguing Palm Inc., developers continue to add products to the Palm repertoire, though some are hedging their bets. "They've had bad news, and there's not a lot we can do about it,"...

Riding the dot-com fallout - Net Perceptions names Peterson as its new CEO, makes its focus from the Web to offline retailers.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Net Perceptions Inc.'s new president and CEO, Don Peterson, will be expected to re-energize the company that practically invented Web personalization with his entrepreneurial spirit. Peterson, who succeeded co-founder Steven Snyder last...

OnDemand tool predicts inventory.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... The demand center service announced last week by OnDemand Inc. may help companies avoid the kind of overstock that caused Cisco Systems Inc. to write off $2.2 billion in excess inventory, OnDemand officials said. Demand Center, a part of...

Telco products hold promise - Avici, RiverStone, Ellacoya to show products, platforms at SuperComm.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... With the telecommunications industry's rediscovered appreciation for profitability, return on investment and other bottom-line interests, vendors will take advantage of this week's SuperComm conference in Atlanta to show providers how to offer...

Firms offer quick-integration tools.(SeeBeyond's eBusiness Suite 4.5 and CommerceFlow'sCommerceFlow Enterprise)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Seebeyond Technology corp. and CommerceFlow Inc. are each taking a stab at providing quick-integration tools for suppliers looking to link to multiple business-to-business channels. SeeBeyond this week will introduce Version 4.5 of its...

The beast of the aggregate.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... Services remain a bright spot in an otherwise tepid period of IT spending, but the way services deals are developing is changing the face of the providers themselves. IT spending on services is expected to grow at 17 percent per year...

Will PCs rebound? Doubt it - As users jump off upgrade cycle, vendor consolidation looms, revenues decline.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... There were warnings more than a year ago, but few in the computer industry paid heed. As PC makers raked in profits amid surging sales, analysts cautioned that the spending spree could soon dry up. The high demand was unsustainable, they said,...

Gateway, Dell PC price war heats up.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Gateway Inc. last week launched the latest assault in an increasingly bitter PC price war, a move that could further undermine industry profits. For an unspecified, limited time, San Diego-based Gateway Inc., the nation's second-largest direct-...

Taking animation to the Web - Toon Boom to broaden its software reach with Studio, which provides movie-quality capabilities.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Toon Boom Technologies Inc., which made its name with animation on the big screen, is now moving to the World Wide Web, adding to its animation software a new product designed for Web animators. Toon Boom Studio Version 1.0, which will be...

Service zeroes in on software reuse.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... A clearinghouse for software components is trying to boost the amount of reuse within enterprises by launching a service to create private component marketplaces. ComponentSource Inc., which has a public marketplace of 6,500 components...

Of dying, living and wrong 800-number.(News Briefs)
June 4, 2001... Spencer was saddened to hear that Cliff Hillegass, the founder of the popular CliffsNotes study guides, passed away recently. Cliff began publishing the study guides in 1958 with a CliffsNotes version of "Hamlet." Since then, college students...

Can Microsoft take on AOL Time Warner.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Office XP looks like a winner for having the wisdom to kill Clippy and replace that helpless helper with smart tags and task panes that are actually useful. But will neat new productivity and group features be sufficient to get Office XP a home...

Government is top e-tailer.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Move over Amazon.com, there's a new king. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and Federal Computer Week showed the federal government has become the top e- business in the country. The study, released last week,...

Former CEO to head Citrix.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Citrix systems has reappointed President Mark Templeton as CEO, the post he resigned from last June. The CEO job at the maker of server- based computing software has been vacant since Templeton stepped down; company officials had been seeking a...

IBM helps to form new firm.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... IBM is throwing its database technology behind medical research. The company last week said it was joining with medical research company MDS Protemics to create a new firm that will act as a clearinghouse for biomolecular data. The...

Services battle to heat up.(Sun ONE vs Microsoft.NET)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... The legal wranglings between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. may be over, but the competitive ones are not. This week, as Sun executives preach the Java gospel at the JavaOne conference, they will wage a battle on a new front: Web...

AOL, Microsoft work on hurdles - Move closer to deal bundling AOL client, XP.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner Inc. moved closer last week to an agreement to bundle the AOL online service client with the forthcoming Windows XP operating system, which would significantly strengthen the two most powerful online...

Office XP to be key to collaboration.(Product Information)(Interview)
June 4, 2001... Microsoft's Belluzzo cites smart tags, SharePoint tools as indications of company's move to services With the release of its Office XP last week and with its Windows XP expected later this year, it's a busy time for Microsoft Corp. Rick...

Ilog gives users site control - Company's Java-based configuration tool gives customers more control over their Web experiences.(JConfigurator)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Ilog Inc. this week at Sun Microsystems Inc.'s JavaOne developer conference will roll out a Java-based configuration tool that allows Web sites to give customers more control over their site experience. JConfigurator, a Java optimization...

Wish you were blue - Bluetooth needs apps, but developers eye other technologies.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... With the first bits of Bluetooth hardware trickling to market, proponents of the much-heralded short-range wireless protocol are turning their attention to software developers for much-needed application support. But while Bluetooth...

Palm, Acer ink licensing deal.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Palm extended its popular palm OS operating system deeper into Asia last week in a major licensing deal with computer and component maker Acer. Acer plans to base a new line of handhelds called the Acer Mobile Device on Palm OS. The deal...

Vendors embrace 9i wireless features.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Oracle said last week it has signed more than 20 vendors to develop applications and services for its location-based services technology. Oracle's partners will combine their own expertise with the Oracle9i Wireless Edition and Oracle...

XP: The last of the desktop behemoths?(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Even as Microsoft Corp. rolled out its latest desktop applications suite, all indications were that Office XP was going to be the last of its kind. That's mainly because the Redmond, Wash., company's future will rely increasingly on its...

Tools keep track of servers - Veritas offerings aimed at easing management, monitoring, maintenance.(Veritas Software Global Cluster Manager, Cluster Server Quick Start and Traffic Director)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Veritas Software Corp. is rolling out several tools it says will make it easier for IT administrators to manage, monitor and maintain servers. The tools-Global Cluster Manager, Cluster Server Quick Start and Traffic Director-will be part...

Previo perfects rebuilding - Company combines compression capabilities, migration and recovery tools to increase user ease.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Sometimes it's easier to start over.For those times when disk crashes or configuration problems are vexing users and the IT staff assigned to help the, Previo Inc. is introducing an improved tool that combines compression capabilities and...

SAS offers hosted service for retailers.(IntelliVisor for Retail)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... SAS Institute Inc. said it believes it can make the hosted applications model work where others have failed. At its SAS Executive Users Group International conference here last week, the business intelligence and performance management...

Office XP: The last hurrah.(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... Subscription or shrink-wrap? That's the question that office suite buyers will be faced with in years to come-and it may become as common a question as "Paper or plastic?" at the supermarket checkout. It's too bad that, at this point, you have...

We're not gonna take it!(Letter to the Editor)
June 11, 2001... Microsoft is milking Windows and Office for more than the upgrades are worth, reader says Just say .No Microsoft's strategy of forcing upgrades borders on robbery and shows exactly the lengths that a monopoly can and will go to extract...

C++ falls short of an 'A'.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 11, 2001... College computer science programs will have the task, during the next few years, of digesting a cohort of incoming students who learned C++ as their first programming language. One wonders if remedial programming will overtake remedial writing...

Software: Beyond the box.(Product Information)
June 11, 2001... I hope these are the last words I write about Microsoft Office, at least as the giant application suite is currently configured. As strongly as officials in Redmond deny or deflect any notion that XP, the latest version package, is the last of...

The next big thing: Field service.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Recognizing that success means keeping customers happy even after they've bought your product, companies are increasingly emphasizing customer and field service. The Yankee Group Inc., in Boston, estimates that revenues of field service...

Energy companies not plugged in?(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Energy companies, on the other hand, could stand to improve their Web- based customer service offerings. According to a report by Meta Group Inc., in Stamford, Conn., only 27 percent of 100 energy companies surveyed used automated response...

Keeping info clean - CRM forcing e-business to get serious about data quality.(Technology Information)
June 11, 2001... Axa Financial Inc. dodged a big, bad bullet early this year when, soon after launching a new customer Web portal, the financial services company got a call from an irate customer who couldn't register on the site. AXA officials traced the...

Data cleansing tools go real time.(Technology Information)
June 11, 2001... Although commercial data cleansing and standardization software tools have been around for years, until fairly recently they weren't suitable for Web applications. That's because tools from such vendors as Trillium Software, Vality...

Passing the Safe Harbor by - U.S. companies ignoring EU privacy shortcut.(Government Activity)
June 11, 2001... Dun & Bradstreet Corp. wasted no time in November when U.S. companies were given an easier way to comply with Europe's tough privacy laws. The company signed up right away to comply with the so-called Safe Harbor deal, negotiated by...

Finding pros for IT security - E-biz demand for experts far exceeds supply.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... Soured economy or no, you still have to have the skills of a sleuth to find information security professionals. How bad is the dearth? Lee Kushner, CEO and founder of L.J. Kushner & Associates LLP, an executive recruiting company specializing...

e-Markets need some soul-searching.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 11, 2001... So, what should we do now?" I was sitting across from the CEO of a once-hot, now-struggling electronic market place. His office was surprisingly opulent, a legacy of happier times. The e-market, like most of its brethren, had spent...

Stranded off the information highway.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... What would you do if your organization's most critical e-business vendor suddenly, and without warning, ceased operations, rendering your entire Internet presence, including Web access, security, e-mail and FTP capabilities, completely useless?...

Turning data to Web reports.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... Crystal Decisions Inc. wants to make business analysis a little easier. The Palo Alto, Calif., company late last month released Crystal Analysis Professional, a front-end OLAP (online analytical processing) tool that transforms data into...

Hitachi jumps into NAS arena.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Hitachi Data Systems Corp. is shipping its first network-attached storage product, which works on the same network segment as a storage area network. The offering, based on technology from Network Storage Solutions Inc., will be packaged...

E-commerce for everybody.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... Cyclone Commerce Inc. has released a suite of trading management products designed to suit the entire range of e-commerce. Cyclone Interchange Version 4.0 includes five editions: Marketplace Edition, Service Provider Edition, Enterprise...

Buying time during hacks.(ManTrap 2.0 from Recourse Technologies)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... The more time an enterprise has to fight off a hack, the better. That's just what Recourse Technologies Inc. hopes to offer customers with its ManTrap Version 2.0, a covert security product designed to confuse attackers while alerting the...

Smoothing the integrated networks road - Vertical Networks products present options for businesses of all sizes.(InstantOffice 4.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... Ease of migration For small and midsize companies, the migration to converged voice/data networks can be bumpy. Vertical Networks Inc. has released two updated products designed to smooth the road. Integrated networks are championed as a way to...

Pings & packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(News Briefs)(Editorial)
June 11, 2001... Free IBM tools feature SOAP The updated version of IBM's free Web Services Toolkit, released last month, provides tools for Web developers to experiment with the latest Web and XML application development technologies. IBM (along with...

Geekspeak - Handy if graffiti's not spoken here.(PDA Pocket Keyboard from Cirque Corp)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... There has arisen among palm os device users a cult of Graffiti-I've heard some joke that they frequently break into the arcane Palm script while writing with pen and paper. For those who've yet to adopt Graffiti as a second language,...

Collaboration - Public exchanges add services while private markets gain the limelight.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... Big public e-marketplaces, which were all the rage a year ago but have since taken a beating, are looking for ways to make themselves relevant through providing more collaboration services. But as they do, they face a rising tide of...

SNIA seeks interoperability solution - But questions remain whether rival storage, switch vendors will be able to reach common ground.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... Rival storage and switch vendors got together last week in the name of interoperability, but questions remain whether such solutions meet IT needs. The Storage Networking Industry Association's Supported Solutions Forum, announced last...

Microsoft readies integrated Messenger.(in the forthcoming Windows XP operating system)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... Microsoft Corp. last week announced the inclusion of its reworked real- time communications technology, Windows Messenger, in the forthcoming Windows XP operating system. While core technical XP beta testers will get the first look at the...

Sharing designs in dry dock - Manufacturers stymied by variety of CAD apps.(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... A general push to shrink the time it takes to get a product to market is being slowed by the difficulty most manufacturers have in electronically sharing design data with suppliers. Newport News Shipbuilding Corp. orchestrates the design,...

Bridging the gap between Java, .Net - Products from Web services developers Cape Clear, Intrinsyc make it easier to use rival platforms.(Cape Clear's CapeConnect, Intrinsyc Software's JaNet)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... With Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java and Microsoft Corp.'s .Net shaping up as the dominant platforms for Web services, a group of companies is trying to carve out a niche between the rival vendors. Companies such as Cape Clear Software Inc....

Syntrex B2B app invades U.S. market.(BDE platform)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... An Italian developer is bringing its business-to-business data transfer technology to the U.S. market. Syntrex Corp., formerly known as Communications Services International Srl., next week will introduce BDE (Business Data Exchange), a...

Entrust CEO sets high goals - Conner slashes PKI vendor's work force to refocus on enhanced services, alternative channels.(Company Operations)
June 11, 2001... Since taking over as ceo of Entrust Inc. in April, Bill Conner has spent much of his time flying around the world to meet customers of the embattled PKI vendor. His message: He intends to return the Plano, Texas, company to break-even status or...

UpShot InVisions sales forecasts.(InVision Forecasting from Upshot)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... As many technology companies learned the hard way last quarter, the lack of accurate sales forecasts exacerbated by the slowing economy can blindside a business when revenue shortfalls materialize late in the quarter. With that scenario in...

Learning to read the numbers.(Editorial)
June 11, 2001... During eWEEK labs' testing of Cisco's new Catalyst switches for the review at right, Senior Analyst Cameron Sturdevant noticed a discrepancy between Cisco's numbers and the ones he was seeing. With much at stake-after all, Giga bit routers...