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America's Network articles from May 1 1997
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America's Network archives from May 1 1997
Setting a remote access strategy: NT platform provides flexibility, scalability. (Microsoft NT operating system)
May 1, 1997... The days of relying on proprietary servers for remote access are numbered. Microsoft's NT operating system, the explosion of new users of remote access and the architectural limitation of servers based on "closed box" technologies are the major...
Multimedia - making it pay.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1997... Multimedia will change the way everyone lives and works. But bigger pipes won't help service providers make enough money. Imagination will - and understanding businesses really want, even before they do.
More than a generation ago, social...
What is multimedia?
May 1, 1997... Traditional definitions of multimedia have referred to "collaborative" conferencing products, such as group and desktop video conferencing, document collaboration ("whiteboards" that can transmit a working electronic document, database, or...
New-century networks: NEC serves up switching, transport and access systems.
May 1, 1997... Vendor themes come and go. Launched with great fanfare at major trade expositions, these themes often become nine-day wonders destined to disappear after only a few months. A mere handful remain as viable signposts to the future.
NEC's...
Keeping (interoperability) hope alive; will Sonet suppliers shrug off sluggish image at SUPERCOMM '97? (synchronous optical network)
May 1, 1997... The Sonet Interoperability Forum (SIF) aims to win back the confidence of service providers - who have all but given up on the promise of synchronous optical network technology - at supercomm '97.
The promise, which many feel has not been...
Noise cancellations 8, erratic voice 3; Shosteck puts BANM's CDMA system to the test. (Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd.; code division multiple access)
May 1, 1997... Do not promise more "digital quality" than you can deliver are the cautionary words from a recent report by Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd.
The Wheaton, Md.-based research and consulting group came to that conclusion after a test of Bell...
A study in wireless contrasts; field reports from the GSM World Congress and CTIA/Wireless. (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association)
May 1, 1997... Chuck Parrish was eating sea urchin in the medieval city of Antibes, France. It was early Saturday morning in February and the French Rivera was redolent in sunlight. Parrish - president of Unwired Planet (Redwood Shores, Calif.), a wireless...
Could LNP break the PSTN? (local number portability; public switched telephone network)
May 1, 1997... The potential for network failure may be greatly exaggerated - or maybe not.
IN JUST A FEW MONTHS, THE PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORK (PSTN) WILL UNDERGO A TREMENDOUS TRANSFORMATION. AN UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT AND VARIETY OF NEW SOFTWARE AND...
Is the WTO agreement for real? Expect problems in establishing this pact. (World Trade Organization)
May 1, 1997... I have grave doubts about the benefits that will allegedly stem from the World Trade Organization's recent telecommunications accord.
For starters, U.S. trade representative Charlene Bartshefsky, who negotiated the "deal," boasted that "the...
