Communications News articles from August 2005

Communications News archives from August 2005

Whose Internet is it?(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... First, Al Gore claimed the Internet was his creation. Now, President George W. Bush is claiming ownership. While the former was simply fodder for political pundits and the comedy club circuit, the latter is disturbing to those who view the...

Secure smiles.(Technology application of BriteSmile)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... BriteSmile, a tooth whitening product corporation, has deployed the Juniper Networks integrated firewall and virtual private network (VPN)to securely transmit point-of-sale (POS)information from its spas and kiosks back to its main headquarters...

Wireless resort.(SHORT TAKES)
August 1, 2005... The Dunes of Panama, a 332-room, five-building resort condo-hotel in Panama City, Fla., now has a wireless network that supplies Internet connectivity for hotel operations, condominium owners and hotel guests. SMC Networks' TigerAccess Extended...

Arizona installs IP network.
August 1, 2005... The state government of Arizona is aggressively transforming its network infrastructure to efficiently utilize taxpayers' money and improve service quality. At the heart of this transition is an initiative to replace the state's aging telephone...

Events.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... BICSI Fall Conference, Aug. 22-Aug. 25, Nashville, offers educational courses for IT professionals, and an exhibition featuring cabling and infrastructure products for the enterprise, www.bicsi.org VoiceCon, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, San Diego,...

Secured wireless.(BlueSecure 5000 Controller )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... When Missouri Southern University in Joplin decided that wireless was the optimal solution for a campus-wide network, authentication of identities was crucial because of the school's federal mandate to protect student identities. To meet its...

Visible network.(usage of ethernet)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The law firm Fish & Richardson RC. has deployed Visual Networks' new Ethernet appliances. The devices are components of Visual UpTime Select, a modular solution that provides in-depth, real-time and historical information to intelligently...

VoIP: room for improvement.(Trends)
August 1, 2005... Organizations spent an average of $117,000 on IP voice products in 2003, 46% more in 2004, and plan to increase their spending an additional 9% in 2005, according to Infonetics Research. "There's no denying IP voice is the future, but given...

KVM use growing.(Trends)
August 1, 2005... New research by Venture Development Corp. estimates worldwide markets for KVM switches will exceed $888 million by 2007, up from $623 million in 2004. In addition, the firm estimates that shipments of serial console servers will reach $165...

Blame the installer?(Feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... The article, "Which cable to choose" (June 2005), highlights a growing problem that contractors face when attempting to keep up with codes, standards and practices in the low-voltage portion of our industry. Author Stephanie Bugg, listed as a...

Author's response.(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... This writer clearly has some issues with the design industry, but I am not sure from his letter what his issue is with the article. He briefly discusses the fill ratio for conduits. I am not sure if the article is referencing 50% or 40% fills....

Cool software.(Feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... We just got our copy of your latest and greatest. The June Communications News issue is another home run! Thanks for filling the pages with such a bounty of valuable information for our industry. I just love the advertisement on the back...

Home improvement: Russ Rosen's priority at Rooms To Go was to create a disaster-recovery site to protect the company's data from Florida storms.(Company Profile)(Cover Story)
August 1, 2005... For many people, making changes can be a difficult decision. For others, making changes can simply depend on the weather. This is exactly how it was for Russ Rosen, chief information officer of Rooms To Go (RTG), a company that specializes in...

How to identify storage solutions: remote data-protection services offer an alternative to purchasing new equipment and adding staff.
August 1, 2005... Originally established to strengthen practices and policies for protecting, retaining, securing, accessing and destroying financial records, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has forced organizations to rethink some fundamental tenets of their...

Consider SAN cabling.(Storage)
August 1, 2005... The expanding volume of information in today's networks, combined with limited space and a growing concern for disaster recovery, has many companies turning to offsite storage area networks (SANs)-high-speed networks of storage devices that are...

Clinical care goes mobile: secure wireless network moves hospital closer to all-paperless goal.(Mobile Computing)
August 1, 2005... A company can have the best technology solutions in the world, but if people cannot easily use them, they will not make a difference. This is especially true in a healthcare environment, where clinical processes are rigid, and making workflow...

Which way to man?(Mobile Computing)
August 1, 2005... Ensconced inside the 100-year-old Pasadena (Calif.) City Hall, Pasadena CIO John Pratt was not thinking about building a WAN or about mobile computing, because all of his users were within the building. Then the City Council decided to retrofit...

Frequency analysis.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... Caterpillar is a hand-held sweeping analyzer designed for 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi frequency and power measurements. The receiver attaches directly to an access point, bridge or network interface card via the included SMA antenna connection kit. The...

Detailed WLAN mapping.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... The Wireless Recon system enables network engineers and technicians to optimally conduct site surveys or audit 802.11 a/b/g wireless networks in half the time of traditional site survey and design methods, while automatically collecting a large...

Unified wired and wireless.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... The InMotion MultiService Controller 5500 (MSC-5500) is engineered for large campus and enterprise deployments and scales to 200 wireless access points serving thousands of users. The MSC enables enterprises to centrally manage and control...

Wi-Fi alternative.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... The XPress Ethernet Bridge allows host and client Ethernet connections to communicate at a range of up to 15 miles (line-of-sight with high-gain antennas) at speeds up to 1.5 Mbps. Operating in the 900 MHz ISM band, in indoor/urban...

Thin access point management.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... Designed for small to midsize businesses, the AirPremier Wireless Switch (DWS-1008) is an eight-port, Layer 2 10/100 switch that executes and maintains the intelligence of Trapeze Networks' Mobility System Software, enabling businesses to...

Wireless security.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... Next Generation Secure Wireless delivers the visibility and granular control of Secure Networks over a wireless infrastructure. The solution integrates wireless into the wired infrastructure, without sacrificing security or performance. The...

Enhanced performance.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... The Wireless-G Router with SRX (WRT54GX) provides faster wireless network throughput, reduced dead spots and increased wireless range over standard wireless-G networks. SRX is based on multiple-in, multiple-out (MIMO) technology, a key...

Wireless serial connectivity.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... The ConnexNet Ethernet-enabled transceivers are rugged, plug-and-play units for providing wireless connectivity to any serial-based application. The transceiver serves as a conduit between user and multiple destination devices via local network...

Wireless device servers.(Wireless Products)
August 1, 2005... The SSEW-100D and DSEW-100D wirelessly network-enable one or two RS-232 serial devices, respectively. The wireless device servers offer a simple, integrated configuration process and the embedded 802.11b wireless radio offers superior power and...

Networking relieves growing pains: hospice's new building cabled to accommodate remote workers, new technologies.(Cabling Infrastructure)
August 1, 2005... Around the country, hospice volunteers and staff provide support, compassion, care and comfort to terminally ill patients during the final stages of their lives. For citizens in Marin Country Calif., the nurses and other volunteers at the...

Transition to the next generation.(Cabling Infrastructure)
August 1, 2005... The emergence of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GigE) began with a surge in demand from data centers and information-hungry markets, such as higher education, financial management, healthcare, engineering design, research and development, and...

Push past the standards.(Cabling Infrastructure)
August 1, 2005... Too often, IT managers assume that all products that meet a particular standard are equal. Higher-performing products that exceed the standards are available, however, and can provide more channel insertion loss (CIL) budget to handle...

Fiber-optic metering.(Infrastructure Products)
August 1, 2005... The PM200 fiber-optic power meter features a 65-dB dynamic range and has a 1-mm Germanium photodetector with a 2.5-mm universal adapter (ST, SC and FC). It stores up to 100 data points and features a simple four-button operation. It also has a...

Non-metallic enclosures.(Infrastructure Products)
August 1, 2005... The NBB Series of large non-metallic enclosures are lightweight and cost less than metallic enclosures, while retaining durability and strength for most applications. Indoor versions are made from ABS/PC blended plastic with a UL94-5VB...

Optical test port.(Infrastructure Products)
August 1, 2005... The Single-Channel 10-Gb Optical nTAP is a test access port designed to support full-duplex data monitoring up to 20 Gbps. The optical device splits the signal from the full-duplex connection between the network and the monitoring device. For...

Cable support.(Infrastructure Products)
August 1, 2005... The Snake Hook is an innovative cable manager for walls, overhead or under floors. The device's wide-arch design relieves stress on cables for maximum performance from the cable. A built-in mounting system allows for quick and cost-effective...

Fire-stopping solution.(Infrastructure Products)
August 1, 2005... The EZ-Path cable pathway is an approved fire-stopping device for telephone, data, low-voltage, power and control cables penetrating fire-rated floors and walls. The device combines fast-acting intumescent fire-stopping technology with a...

Flexible plenum cables.(Infrastructure Products)
August 1, 2005... The PlenumPlus family of copper cables is manufactured with a Thermoplen LCTM jacket. The new cable jacket offers flexibility, strip-ability and reduced memory effect for ease of installation with reduced coiling. These cables meet stringent...

Analysis tools improve performance: more bandwidth not necessarily the answer for managing application traffic.(Testing & Monitoring)
August 1, 2005... Wide area network (WAN) optimization is about improving the performance of business applications over WAN connections. Most networks now carry a variety of types of traffic and many organizations are working to manage this traffic to ensure...

Where IT, business meet: the type of application performance-monitoring solution to choose depends on your needs.(Traffic Analysis)
August 1, 2005... Slow application adoption rates and downtime can seriously impact business performance. Although there is an abundance of application performance-monitoring solutions available in the market, organizations will not see the benefits of those...

The distributed system option.(Traffic Analysis)
August 1, 2005... The central function of IT in the modern enterprise is to assure the performance, integrity and security of the application infrastructure. Network application management addresses this challenge by focusing on the network's role in...

PoE midspan.(Product Spotlight: Power)
August 1, 2005... The Power over Ethernet (PoE) midspan products (also known as power hubs) ensure continuous power to remotely connected IP telephones, wireless LANs, Bluetooth access points and IP-powered video surveillance and security systems, when used in...

Current monitoring.(Product Spotlight: Power)
August 1, 2005... The Meter Reader adds electrical current-monitoring capability to existing power strips, providing a convenient current readout at the front of the rack or cabinet. The device connects between the equipment plug and its power source. Available...

Managed switch with PoE.(Product Spotlight: Power)
August 1, 2005... The PowerConnect 3400 Series of stackable Fast Ethernet switches consists of the 24-port PowerConnect 3424 and 3424P, and the 48-port PowerConnect 3448 and 3448P. Two of the models, the PowerConnect 3424P and the 3448P, include...

PoE adapter.(Product Spotlight: Power)
August 1, 2005... The Power over Ethernet (PoE) Kit eliminates the need to place wireless access points near a power outlet or pay to install new power outlets to ensure optimum placement of the wireless connection. Especially suitable for growing small and...

UPS remote management.(Product Spotlight: Power)
August 1, 2005... PowerVision Network Edition power-management software, version 4.0, is a centralized power-management system that allows network administrators to proactively monitor all networked uninterruptible power systems in a distributed power...

Send video 3,300 feet.(New Products)
August 1, 2005... Locate either monitors or projectors up to 3,300 feet away from their host computers with the DVE 1000 video extender. The system can be connected to monitors and computers with VFSA DVI-D cables, and transmitters and receivers are connected...

Mobile management.(New Products)
August 1, 2005... The Viatores NxG 500 Mobile IP VPN Appliance allows mobile workers to remain always connected to corporate resources. With support for 500 simultaneous users, the 1U rackmount appliance provides the ability to roam across network boundaries...

Compact cooling.(New Products)
August 1, 2005... The Rack Mount Chiller uses thermoelectric technology to cool or heat with liquid or air. The chiller can control temperatures within a tenth of a degree to efficiently remove waste heat and avoid component overheating. The 3U design can be...

Disk-based backup.(New Products)
August 1, 2005... Pathlight VX 450 is a disk backup-and-restore solution that delivers data protection and disaster recovery for critical applications in midrange data centers. The system presents its disk capacity as a virtual tape library to applications,...

Managed application delivery.(New Products)
August 1, 2005... NetScaler Command Center is a centralized management and monitoring solution for the company's full line of application delivery systems. The solution features a unified console, designed for large-scale deployments, that simplifies day-to-day...

10-gigabit switching.(New Products)
August 1, 2005... Just 1U high, the TigerSwitch 10G managed Layer 2 switch is designed to handle heavy traffic workgroups and power users, opening bandwidth with its non-blocking, 10-gigabit switching architecture that is capable of reaching 160 Gbps. The...

Make blades easier to manage: try applying some "glue" to facilitate less painful management of your blade servers.(Guest Column)
August 1, 2005... The promise of blades has not yet been fulfilled. Too many proprietary components and management tools have created added complexity, resulting in higher operating costs. Enterprise IT managers are looking for blades to be as manageable,...