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Best of open source in networking If we had to pick the most significant trend in networking today, the VoIP phenomenon might well top the list. And open source is playing no small part. While enterprises remain reluctant to rip out their tried-and-true PBXes, open source VoIP -- usually in the form of Asterisk -- is capturing business communications one small business or branch office at a time. Sooner or later, enterprises too will catch the open source VoIP bug. The cost savings and flexibility are too compelling to resist. Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Vodafone hedges its bets, joins WiMax Forum Vodafone Group doesn't want to miss out on the next big wireless technology, no matter what it is. August 9, 8:24 a.m. PDT iPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University The Wi-Fi connection on Apple's recently released iPhone seems to be the source of a big headache for network administrators at Duke University. July 17, 8:57 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Steve McCanne Steve McCanne's job at Riverbed Technology is about three things: strategy, strategy, strategy. June 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco, Nortel, Meru smarten up WLANs Vendors are adding bells and whistles to their wireless LAN products at Interop this week as the industry awaits a new generation of gear that may replace wired LANs entirely. May 22, 5:59 a.m. PDT Trapeze, AirDefense raise the bar on enterprise wireless security Gone are the days of being able to ignore security and role separation for enterprise wireless systems. Regardless of whether you go with a thick access point (Cisco or Symbol) or a thin access point (Trapeze or Aruba), your wireless infrastructure must be able to support role separation through using multiple SSIDs (service set identifiers) and dropping these onto the appropriate VLAN. May 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT US Army to evaluate Mobile WiMax use The U.S. Army’s Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) will spend several months evaluating Mobile WiMax for possible military use, according to Samsung Electronics, which is supplying the equipment. April 26, 5:39 a.m. PDT Networking: Convergence is at hand In networking, the big news of 2006 was the emergence of 10-Gigabit Ethernet as a mature, enterprise-ready technology. The past year also witnessed important advances in security and monitoring on the enterprise LAN, thanks to ever tightening integration and partnerships. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Qualcomm buys WLAN and Bluetooth technologies Qualcomm is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones. December 4, 4:51 a.m. PST WAN appliance underdog Exinda pushes open standard Looking for an edge in the hotly contested market for wide-area network performance tools, Exinda Networks wants to help everyone get along. December 1, 1:49 p.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST WiMax rival gets back on track The process to standardize a rival to the broadband wireless WiMax technology is back on track although the delay and scandal around it could present a serious set back to the effort. September 20, 5:37 a.m. PDT In Brief: Intel invests in Malaysian WiMax company Intel's venture-capital arm has taken an unspecified stake in ADA Cellworks, a Malaysian company that provides radio network planning services. Intel's investment in the company is intended to smooth the adoption of WiMax technology. September 19, 5:05 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wi-Fi Alliance won't wait for IEEE “I-triple-what?” was the question being asked last week, after the Wi-Fi Alliance said it will start certifying next-generation wireless LAN products by the first half of 2007, regardless of whether the IEEE has signed off on new wireless specifications for them. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Huawei to expand R&D in India Chinese networking equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. is expanding its R&D (research and development) in India with a new center in Bangalore for the development of optical network products and wireless LAN technologies. August 31, 8:08 a.m. PDT HP, Cisco team up on enterprise wireless LANs Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard see the wireless LAN as something that can help the whole enterprise, not just departments. August 30, 4:16 a.m. PDT Health care: Doctors without desks No industry has as many mobile knowledge workers as health care. That poses real challenges to hospital IT departments trying to help improve patient treatment and maintain employee efficiency. As a latecomer to technology adoption, the health care industry typically builds on the lessons learned in other industries. But when it comes to mobility, hospitals lead the way. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Telcos want toll booths on the Internet superhighway Ladies and gentleman, buyers and sellers, content providers and users! Take a front row seat, because the final battle for the Internet is about to begin. August 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Linksys small-business Wi-Fi grows up Small businesses will get some of the wireless LAN bells and whistles enterprises already have as Cisco Systems' Linksys division expands its product lineup on Monday. July 31, 4:18 a.m. PDT Hardware vendors are missing the opportunity of open source Enterprising hardware hackers managed another coup last week, having successfully installed a version of the open source DD-WRT firmware on the latest revision of the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. The WRT54G became something of a fan favorite a few years ago, when Linksys released the source code to the router's Linux-based firmware. Since then, a number of custom variations on the original have appeared that add features Linksys never intended, of which DD-WRT is arguably the best. July 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT WiMax gets off to a slow start Motorola is betting on WiMax to spur the roll out of broadband wireless services. But don't expect a revolution to happen overnight, a senior company executive said. June 22, 7:23 a.m. PDT FIFA network tackles tough challenge The World Cup soccer tournament taking place in Germany is not only the planet's largest sporting event; during the four weeks of play through July 9, it's also home to what many experts say is the world's biggest communications network built for a single event. June 19, 4:35 a.m. PDT Chambers to become Cisco chairman John Chambers, who has run Cisco Systems Inc. as president and chief executive officer (CEO) since 1995, will become chairman in November while remaining CEO, the dominant networking vendor announced Thursday. June 8, 11:38 a.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Keeping track of tools the wireless way “Who has that damn cart now?” During a network build-out for a large New York commercial real estate manager a few years back, that phrase got shouted often enough to become a stress mantra. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nortel, Symantec team on app security Symantec plans to announce Monday a deal to put its intrusion prevention system (IPS) software on Nortel Network's application switching hardware. May 22, 8:50 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun Solaris 10 to integrate ZFS and PostgreSQL Sun announced a June release of the solaris 10 operating system that will incorporate ZFS 1.0, Sun’s new 128-bit file system, and the open source PostgreSQL database. ZFS automatically detects and corrects data corruption and eliminates the need for a volume manager. PostgreSQL will help leverage Solaris’ predictive self-healing, OS containers, and DTrace (dynamic tracing) technologies. Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews IBM primes x86 servers for consolidation IBM announced a new line of Intel x86 server hardware called System x that is designed to deliver enterprise class virtualization capabilities for server consolidation. IBM also unveiled the Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool (CDAT), software that scans the network for under-utilized servers and helps identify opportunities to consolidate and virtualize x86 systems. Three new models -- System x3950, System x3850, System x3800 -- will be available this month. System x3950, System x3850, System x3800, IBM May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Networking |
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