Network World articles from January 2001

Network World archives from January 2001

Power at the negotiating table; The trick is knowing how to handle negotiations from the start.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... If you're like most network professionals, you view negotiating with vendors the same way you view going to the dentist: painful, but necessary. But the pain from a bad contract can last years and cost thousands, even millions of dollars....

Top negotiating myths.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... "We're giving you our best price." Don't think for a second that you're getting the best price by virtue of your company's size, long-term relationship with the vendor or anything else. A statement like this is meant to discourage you...

You're going down; 10 surefire ways to lose power.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Sometimes losing power is like being in a car wreck that knocks a transformer off a utility pole: Bam! Sparks fly, and the lights go out. Other times it's like you've turned into an aging heavyweight throwing punches that just don't hurt...

Power within reach; You might not be a Genghis Khan, but power can be yours.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... When I was 19, I bench-pressed 200 pounds. That may not sound like a lot if you're the Charles Atlas type. But I had lifted weights for a couple of years and always struggled with that particular exercise - the sine qua non of aspiring...

Power prognositicator; Six top news reporters share their predictions for the year ahead.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Handicapping the top guys at WorldCom, AT&T, Sprint While industry pundits can dispute which company - AT&T, Sprint or WorldCom - is in worse shape, the fact is each has a big cross to bear: consumer voice. The question is whether...

Who's running this network anyway?; Mobile devices and multimedia downloads are capturing users attention - and drawing fire from network managers.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Like a 14-year-old who shows a bunch of kids how to inhale helium from balloons, some users aren't such great influences on their peers. One employee had been with his company for only two days when he downloaded Napster - and proceeded to...

Stuck in directory limbo; The struggle to understand directory services begins with knowing Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's eDirectory, but runs much deeper.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Wouldn't it be nice if the choice of a directory service simply boiled down to choosing Novell's eDirectory (formerly NDS) or Microsoft's Active Directory? Pick one, get it up and running, and you're magically there. All of your applications...

Controlling voice; An IP PBX or a VoIP gateway? Making sense of the voice-over-IP decision.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Evolution or revolution? That's the big decision to make as you move down the convergence path toward voice over IP to the desktop. Established PBX vendors such as Nortel Networks are marshalling a gateway-based coalition between the old and...

The fight for fiber and copper; Tables turn as 'Project Pronto' has SBC arguing for new technology and CLECs for the old.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Do you have branch offices or teleworkers in the 13 states controlled by mega-Bell SBC Communications? If so, grab your 2001 calendar and put a big red circle around Sept. 1. That's the date the government will begin letting SBC take...

Storage standoff; Network infrastructure, storage start-up and Fibre Channel vendors joust over storage-over-IP standards.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... A slew of storage-over-IP proposals have obsessed storage vendors for the last year, dislodging conventional ideas of direct-attached storage and splitting partners and competitors alike. Heavy-hitting storage and network infrastructure...

Linux against the odds; Linux has gained some heavy backers, but still hasn't broken the enterprise. Will it ever?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... The Linux open source operating system had a banner year in 2000, gathering one endorsement after another from top industry vendors - IBM, Dell Computer and Oracle among them. But still, even with such heavy backing, Linux remains outside the...

The power of knowledge; Ideas have become a gold mine. What role should IT play in identifying and enabling intellectual property? A big one.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Sir J. Arthur Thomson, famous scientist and author of the 1920s, once said: "The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will." Nowhere is that becoming truer than in 21st century business....

Big bandwidth vs. QoS; Is it better to throw bandwidth at the network to handle growing applications needs, or is it smarter to add quality-of-service mechanisms? The debate seems to be fading.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... In this classic contest between network brawn and brains, it looks like brawn has finally gained the upper hand. Big bandwidth is simple and cheap. Managing bandwidth using quality-of-service (QoS) techniques - while a more elegant approach...

Can your IT department become an OUTSIDE CONSULTING department?; A tempting thought, but difficult to pull off.(Company Operations)
January 1, 2001... If IT people are your greatest asset, why not hire them out as a consultants? This "shared-services" model, where IT works on internal and for-hire projects, offers advantages yet is difficult to execute, says Don Walker, former CEO of The...

The knowledge assessment; How to know what you know.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Analysts place failure rates of knowledge management systems at between 20% and 50% of all projects implemented. Keeping your project from becoming such a statistic means understanding how ready your people are to accept this technology. Enter...

The apps race; Sun and Microsoft are bitter rivals in the distributed network applications market. What are their latest strategic moves?(Product Information)
January 1, 2001... Sun and Microsoft are putting increasing pressure on enterprise IT managers to choose between Java and .Net, their respective technologies for building Web-based, distributed applications. But not many are ready to settle on either Sun or...

Power grid 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Overcharged by executive ousters and corporate overhauls, the network industry's power grid has been put to the test lately. Some market segments have been on fire and others have gone up in smoke. We've seen power surges, power leaks and total...

Niagara review, how we did it.(Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... How We Did It We tested Niagara 2.50 in our IntraNetWare 4.11 server. Our AMD K6 350-MHz powered IntraNetWare server acts as the e-mail server for our 10-user 100M bit/sec test LAN, which is connected to the Internet via a FreeBSD Unix...

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Super Bowl ads not a super idea.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 2, 2001... Last winter Autotrader.com, viewed the Super Bowl as a talisman for fame and fortune. The used-car marketer was just one of 17 dot-com, technology or e-commerce companies that bought ads. This Jan. 28 the company is passing on the football...

Keeping New Year's resolutions, the Web way.(Directory)
January 2, 2001... Keeping New Year's resolutions, the Web way By Tom Mainelli PC World, 01/02/00 Technology makes our lives easier and better. So it should make keeping a New Year's resolution a snap, right? Okay, that's a bit much to ask of...

In 2001, watch for faster, cheaper and smaller PCs.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 2, 2001... In 2001, watch for faster, cheaper and smaller PCs By PCWorld.com staff PC World, 01/02/01 Faster, cheaper, roomier--been there, done that. When it comes to PC predictions, forecasts of greater speed, lower prices, and more...

E-comm picks and pans.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 2, 2001... Welcome to the Tuesday edition of NetFlash. During my nice holiday break, I must admit I was not much of a news junky. Sure, I watched the market stumble like everyone else, and I heard about a few shootings and Bush cabinet appointments. But...

Intel expands device portfolio with MP3 player.(Product Announcement)
January 2, 2001... Extending its push into the consumer electronics market, Intel on Tuesday announced a portable digital music player that boasts 128M bytes of flash memory. Weighing less than four ounces, the Intel Pocket Concert Audio Player can store up...

What You Didn't Get for Christmas: Viruses.(Technology Information)
January 2, 2001... At least one antivirus software vendor Tuesday said the holiday viruses it warned about did not show up. Santa left the nasty gifts with his elves. As many businesses were closed between Christmas and New Year, viruses could have struck as...

Andersen Consulting rebrands itself Accenture.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 2, 2001... With the New Year comes a new name for Andersen Consulting, the New York-based firm that will now be known as Accenture. The re-branded organization is intended to better reflect the "network of businesses" that provide "consulting,...

DSL chaos continues.(Company Operations)
January 2, 2001... The holiday season was anything but merry for the employees and customers of several DSL providers that announced cutbacks or closures. Competitive DSL carriers have been hit hard in recent months. Covad Communications and NorthPoint...

Global Crossing gets new president.(Company Operations)
January 2, 2001... Global Crossing gets new president By Denise Pappalardo Global Crossing announced that David Walsh is the company's new presidentand chief operating officer (COO). Walsh was most recently co-chief operating officer at the company. He...

Study: 210 dot-com companies closed in 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 2, 2001... The dot-com casualty count seemed like headline fodder for weeks during the latter months of 2000. Now a new study confirms that approximately 60% of the dot-com deaths occurred during the fourth quarter of the year as funding quickly began to...

IBM inks e-support deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... IBM inks e-support deal By Carolyn Duffy Marsan IBM will announce Wednesday plans to offer automated technical support services via the Internet for corporate customers of its notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers. By June...

Microsoft, Starbucks team on wireless 'Net services.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2001... Microsoft, Starbucks team on wireless 'Net services By Laura Rohde IDG News Service, 01/03/01 Internet and caffeine addicts unite. Microsoft and coffee monolith Starbucks Coffee Co. have agreed to jointly offer high speed Internet...

Yahoo to charge auction fee, ban race-hate items.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... Yahoo to charge auction fee, ban race-hate items By Rick Perera IDG News Service, 01/03/01 Yahoo Inc. has announced plans to introduce a small fee for its auction service, and to ban from sale items associated with racist or...

Linux OS upgrade beta ships to developers, testers.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2001... Linus Torvalds failed to make good on his latest promise to deliver the much-anticipated Linux 2.4 operating systems kernel by year's end, but did ship to developers and other beta testers a pre-release of the technology in its place. ...

Suit alleges discrimination at Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... Super-lawyer Willie Gary is the son of poor migrant farm workers from Georgia, but he is a multimillionaire now, and going up against the world's richest man is unlikely to overawe him. On Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington,...

AOL claims members made most online holiday sales.(Industry Trend or Event)(Polling Data)
January 3, 2001... AOL claims Members Made Most Online Holiday Sales By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service America Online Tuesday claimed that its U.S. members account for 70% of consumer spending online for the holiday season - a claim analysts...

Registry Magic to Turn Cell Phones into Wallets.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... Registry Magic Tuesday announced a Bluetooth-based payment system that could turn cellphones into virtual wallets. The company's Consumer Payment Network will be fully unveiled next month. Bluetooth is a standard for short-distance wireless...

Napster signs deal with another major label.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... Napster. Tuesday announced a tie-up with Germany's edel Music AG - one of the world's largest independent music labels - that will give the music-swapping Web service access to edel-owned titles. The move is part of Napster's plan to turn...

Helping Microsoft not an easy undertaking.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... Despite Microsoft Corp.'s recent warning of bad financial times ahead, the company's market share in PC operating systems and servers may be expanding, according to new research data from IDC. The data may be used by the U.S. government to...

Study: 210 dot-com companies closed in 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2001... The dot-com casualty count seemed like headline fodder for weeks during the latter months of 2000. Now a new study confirms that approximately 60% of the dot-com deaths occurred during the fourth quarter of the year as funding quickly began to...

IBM offers 'smart' diagnostic tool.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2001... IBM Wednesday announced that new IBM ThinkPad notebooks, NetVista desktops, IntelliStation professional workstations and eServer series computers will be sold with "smart" technology that automatically diagnoses and resolves common software...

Fed cuts interest rates, tech stocks rise.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
January 3, 2001... Fed cuts interest rates, tech stocks rise By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service Remember the technology market crash? You know, the one that carved the Nasdaq index in half like a Christmas ham and started talk about a...

The spam-tastic Year 2000.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 4, 2001... My first workday of each New Year starts with a tradition: deleting last year's e-mail. It's a daunting job considering the backlog of spam and ambiguous e-mail from my boss that I'm still trying to decipher. But deleting e-mail is one of...

Discrimination case seeks billions from Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... Seven African Americans have filed a $5 billion race discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company has passed them over for promotions, discriminated against them in hiring and firing practices and forced them to endure a...

Web hosting firm loses bid for restraining order against anti-spam group.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... A U.S. District Court judge in Boston this week turned down a Web hosting company's request for a temporary restraining order that would have required IP addresses held by the firm to be removed from a blacklist maintained by an antispam...

Newly released CompuServe 2000 6.0 mimics AOL.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... One of the original e-mail providers, CompuServe, isn't for geeks anymore. A newly unveiled interface gives the venerable service some of the functions of its parent, America Online. The CompuServe 2000 interface transforms the service to...

BMC raises third-quarter expectations.(Company Financial Information)
January 4, 2001... Amid a steady stream of profit warnings from software vendors, BMC Software Wednesday had some surprising news. The mainframe and client/server systems management software company raised its forecasts for third-quarter revenue. For its...

Two sentenced in major e-mail spam scam.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 4, 2001... Two Russian emigres will serve more than 2 years in jail for their part in an e-mail spam scam that clogged U.S. ISPs with more than 50 million e-mails and defrauded victims of more than $250,000. Steve Shklovskiy and Yan Shtok, both 23,...

EBay auction site down for over 4 hours.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... Would-be auctioneers on eBay's signature Web site Wednesday ran into difficulties as the company dealt with a series of technical snafus Just before noon, company officials posted a message on eBay's announcement board, saying the site...

Struggling Network Associates taps new CEO.(Company Operations)
January 4, 2001... Network Associates Wednesday made the most of the new year by hiring a new CEO. The antivirus software specialist announced that George Samenuk will now serve as the company's CEO and president, effective immediately. Samenuk most recently...

Wireless spectrum auction resumes.(Government Activity)
January 4, 2001... After a holiday hiatus the Federal Communications Commission is starting up its Personal Communication Service re-auction. The FCC is auctioning off 422 PCS C and F Block spectrum licenses that were returned due to nonpayment. The auction...

E-commerce dispute management protocol announced.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... The American Arbitration Association and some major industry leaders, such as Microsoft, Wednesday announced a new business-to-business e-commerce dispute management protocol to disarm conflict between buyers and sellers. The protocol is...

Yahoo nazi ban gets mixed reactions.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... In the battle between U.S. Web portal Yahoo and French courts banning Nazi gear, the Americans have quit the field. Yahoo will prohibit Nazi memorabilia from being sold on its commerce sites, along with Ku Klux Klan memorabilia and other...

Sprint and Palm partner for wireless 'Net access.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... Wireless carrier Sprint PCS and PDA maker Palm Thursday announced that they will market and sell wireless products for handhelds using the Palm operating system platform. Sprint PCS - the personal communications systems division of Sprint...

CA fires employees over sex e-mail.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
January 4, 2001... A small group of former employees of Computer Associates contend the business software maker fired them during December for sending sexually explicit e-mail, according to a published report Thursday. A group of at least 10 employees, who...

MP3.com debuts next generation My.MP3.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... Online music site MP3.com Thursday presented developers and music-industry decision makers with tools for connecting retailers, labels and music playing devices with hardware and software. At the company's "Next Generation of My.MP3" event...

HP ships Superdome server.(Product Announcement)
January 4, 2001... Hewlett-Packard has begun worldwide shipment of its HP 9000 Superdome Unix server, which combines support and services offerings normally reserved for mainframe customers with the option of multiple-choice CPUs and eventually multiple operating...

Barnes & Noble digital to link writers and readers.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 4, 2001... Barnes & Noble.com Thursday launched an electronic publishing division that will offer writers editorial support, online sales monitoring and publicity while linking them with readers. "[We] have six million readers, and by working with us...

CES Preview: Big guns gunning for consumers.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 4, 2001... Technology companies with established reputations in the commercial market will be courting consumers at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which begins this Friday in Las Vegas. A number of predominately commercial technology and...

Angry hacker releases customer data of Wyoming ISP.(Company Operations)
January 4, 2001... A hacker angry at the outside activities of GlobalCentral.com, a Casper, Wyo., Internet service provider, has released customer information to Computerworld. On Dec. 12 and 13, Computerworld received e-mails containing detailed...

7-Eleven store systems hit by Y2k-like glitch.(Company Operations)
January 4, 2001... When the new year started, customers at convenience stores operated by 7-Eleven Inc. found that their credit cards were too advanced for the company's point-of-sale systems -- 100 years too advanced, in fact. Dallas-based 7-Eleven confirmed...

President elect Bush talks tech with execs.
January 5, 2001... Education, trade regulation and Internet privacy issues were expected to be some of the topics that a group of at least 15 U.S. high-tech executives conveyed to President-elect George W. Bush during an economic forum Thursday in Austin, Texas....

Torvalds releases long-awaited Linux 2.4.0 kernel.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 5, 2001... The much-anticipated Version 2.4.0 of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source operating system. "In short, 2.4.0 is out there," Torvalds wrote in an e-mail to the Kernel Mailing List...

EToys slashes staff by 70%.(Company Operations)
January 5, 2001... EToys, once the darling of e-commerce companies, slashed its staff by 70 percent Thursday as it continues to search for a buyer. The company also will shut down its U.K. site Jan. 19 and will soon after shut down its European operations. ...

U.S. to kick off series of safe harbor briefings.(Government Activity)
January 5, 2001... The Department of Commerce has signed up only 12 companies and organizations so far for its hard-fought "safe harbor" protections on data privacy, but government officials Thursday said they believe a series of planned seminars will increase...

Paul Allen's e-commerce firm Mercata to close.(Company Operations)
January 5, 2001... U.S. e-commerce firm Mercata is to close its doors at the end of this month, the company announced Thursday. The privately-held firm is shutting down because it has been unable to find sufficient financing, Mercata said in a statement. The...

CES: Show brings the gadget world to Las Vegas.
January 5, 2001... Vendors from around the globe Friday will descend upon Las Vegas when the annual Consumer Electronics Show -- CES -- kicks off. Entertainment companies, hardware makers and software specialists are all expected to flood Sin City with their...

SuSE keen to get its Linux in handhelds.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 5, 2001... German Linux software distributor SuSE Linux AG has expressed an interest in developing operating systems for the growing market in handheld devices. "Being a stable, flexible and affordable operating system, Linux has without any doubt...

CES: Transmeta, Philips team on 'Net display modules.
January 5, 2001... Philips Components, a division of Royal Philips Electronics NV in the Netherlands, will use Transmeta's Crusoe processor in its forthcoming 'Net Display Modules. The modules are used in Internet appliance products such as Web tablets,...

Portal player Plumtree extends reach into U.K., partners with BT.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 5, 2001... SAN FRANCISCO - Software maker Plumtree is extending its reach into the U.K. by partnering with British Telecom's application service provider arm to deliver integrated applications through a single corporate portal. BT Ignite Application...

BMC names new president, CEO.(Company Operations)
January 5, 2001... Enterprise software maker BMC Software Friday announced the appointment of Robert E. Beauchamp as its new president and CEO, one day after announcing higher-than-expected earnings estimates and watching its stock ascend. Beauchamp, 41, is...

CES: Intel's Barrett sees 'extended PC era'.
January 5, 2001... The home of the future will have more digital consumer products interconnect through powerful home PCs, according to Intel President and CEO Craig Barrett, who is slated to deliver the keynote address Friday night at the Computer Electronics...

New Linux kernal allows more scalability.(Linux 2.4)(Product Announcement)
January 5, 2001... The long-awaited release on Thursday of Linux kernel Version 2.4.0 finally brings a scalability level to the operating system allowing it to compete with Unix in high-end systems and applications, according to spokesmen for Linux vendors. ...

DSL equipment suppliers revise earnings downward; Companies cite fewer than expected orders as cause of shortfalls.(Efficient Networks, Next Level Communications and Copper Mountain Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 5, 2001... The instability of many DSL network providers and their ISP resellers is taking a toll on DSL equipment suppliers. This week, at least three suppliers downgraded their revenue expectations citing decreased market demand. Over the last few...

BMC Software names new CEO; Company also announces it expects better third-quarter 2001 earnings, but industry observers say time will tell if the news means better business for BMC.(Company Operations)
January 5, 2001... HOUSTON - BMC Software Friday announced Robert E. Beauchamp will be replacing Max Watson as president and CEO, and industry observers speculate if the move will give the company a much-needed boost. Beauchamp, 41, most recently served as...

Getting to the root of net management problems; Vendors are finally offering products that can pinpoint network performance problems.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Getting to the bottom of a network problem has never been easy, but new and existing products that perform root-cause analysis can ease the pain. At least that's the conclusion of a new report recently released by Enterprise Management...

Those of you who liked what you've seen of an e-mail add-on application called Zaplet will want to take a peek at the product of another start-up with a similar name and mission: Droplet, Inc.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Here's the scooplet: Droplets are small online applications an end user will drag and drop from an e-commerce or intranet Web page to his PC desktop, where the apps will stand ready as icons available to interact with the Droplet issuer's...

Don't put a dime into these jukeboxes; JVC 's MC-7100 DVD-RAM jukebox is best, but difficult installation and setup make no real winners.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... At first blush, using a network-attached DVD-RAM jukebox sounds like an easy way to add hard disk storage. Each disc can hold 2.6G bytes of data, and like CD-RWs, they are rewritable media. Jukeboxes can hold hundreds of discs and make the...

ITS A JUNGLE OUT THERE; Hunting for network gear on the internet can be a bear.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Hunting for network gear on the Internet can be a bear. By Gary Kadet Buying network gear and WAN services over the Internet would seem like a godsend for busy network executives. Especially with new sites popping up all the time...

Calling all VoIP - please dial '100'.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Testers Choice . Ed Mier As a technology and marketplace, voice over IP is exploding. But reining it in from overnight world domination is the lack of a standard mechanism for prioritizing voice-over-IP traffic. Most voice-over-IP vendors...

IP telephony makes a splash; CONVERGED NETWORKS.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... When it comes to rolling out converged networks, early adopters of IP PBXs are trying a variety of attack plans ranging from the toe-in-the-water approach to full-bore immersion. However they do it, network professionals are finding that in...

Delay dismay.(Letter to the Editor)
January 8, 2001... I loved your story "Frame relay delays create nightmare for two Mass. firms" (www.nw fusion.com, DocFinder: 2423). I am working with three power plants throughout New York. I have two 56K bit/sec frame relay lines and one DSL line on order...

Fear, uncertainty and doubt: The state of communications.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Industry Commentary . Frank Dzubeck During the past several months, I have been called on to be a "notable quotable" on the state of the communications industry. It seems that in the public media's opinion, customer negativism abounds, and...

Niagara: a rough ride but worth a look.(Buyers Guide)
January 8, 2001... BY MIKE AVERY, NETWORK WORLD GLOBAL TEST ALLIANCE If you want to use your existing NetWare system as an e-mail server, you have four choices: Novell's GroupWise or its Internet Messaging System (NIMS), the Mercury e-mail gateway, or the new...

Plugging the skills gaps; Bank One finds that skills assessment and training generate impressive returns.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... wo years ago, Bank One's Investment Management Group was at a crossroads. The $2 billion organization was moving quickly from client/ server systems to bandwidth-heavy Internet and intranet applications. But the newly consolidated 180-person IT...