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Year 2000
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Industry Trend or Event - News Briefs
Many administrators without network monitoring.
Industry Trend or Event - Brief Article
News Briefs - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
Industry Trend or Event - Brief Article
Industry Trend or Event
Industry Trend or Event
Review - Brief Article
The '$8B start-up' starts out.
Company Business and Marketing HP's $8 billion spinoff, Agilent Technologies, seems destined for a bright future under the guidance of CEO Ned Barnholt. Agilent, introduced via a healthy $2.1 billion initial public offering (IPO) in Nov 1999, has already won the approval of analyst George Gilder, a notoriously hard sell.
Dedicated ATM video area network spans several Ohio high schools.
Technology Information Asynchronous communications (ATM) networks provide an excellent foundation for the video-rich network applications of the future, such as videoconferencing, workgroup collaboration, distance learning and more. Because ATM networks have quality of service (QoS) guarantees, packet loss and video jitter are less likely to occur.
Latest conferencing and training products.
Buyers Guide
Louvre's museum of the future uses fiber cable.
Product Information Musee de la Publicite, the Louvre's new museum of advertising art, has deployed a vanguard fiber-optic ATM network capable of delivering broadcast-quality digital images, recordings and video to patrons. The Musee de la Publicite used 3M's Volition fiber optic equipment and Silicon Graphics' Origin200 workstation to create its network.
Latest cabling and wiring products.
News Briefs
Developing world-class partnerships.
Industry Trend or Event
Broadband access: the wave of the future.
Technology Information Packet technology is developing fast to provide the building blocks of the entire public network from core to the edge so as to accommodate the rapid need for bandwidth and high-speed Internet access. The transformation from circuit switching to packet technology is discussed including related issues such as the use of DSL, DSL access multiplexers (DSLAMs), scalability of DSL and Layer 3 (IP) technology.
Company Operations Specialty Laboratories, which provides the largest single specialized testing services for healthcare services, uses DSL lines for its Web-based DataPassportMD laboratory interface order entry and reporting system. Customers use a Windows NT-based workstation and a printer to type in the specific test they want and print out a packing list for the sample prior to sending the sample to Specialty for analysis. Specialty Laboratories gives the customer everything including th...
Industry Trend or Event Businesses have available local area network (LAN) fax and Internet protocol (IP) fax solutions to reduce the mounting cost of paper-based fax. LAN fax is a customer-premise computer-based capability that uses a local area network, while IP fax uses the Internet and an outside service provider. The technologies, their relative merits and capabilities are discussed.
Technology Information Test instruments enter into all aspects of designing, implementing and maintaining telecommunication and computer networks. The role played by test instruments in design, manufacture and operation after installation of network equipment as well as during network maintenance are discussed.
Plan ahead to avoid network outages.
Company Operations IKON Office Solutions uses TAVVE Software's tsc/EventWatch network performance analysis/diagnostic software to complement HP's OpenView Network Node Manager network management software, for managing its network of office product solutions. IKON has found that TAWE's product has enabled the company to provide a higher level of network-management service to its customers.
Latest power protection products.
News Briefs
What happens after the 'BUY' button is hit?
Industry Trend or Event A major challenge to the e-commerce business is the integration of storefronts represented by the business processes with the back office represented by the enterprise networked applications that support them. The strategy for this is called application-integration flow management and helps in improving this integration process and minimizing performance problems.
Expansion dictates Web-enabled real-time data exchange.
Company Operations After 3dfx Interactive acquired STB Systems, the company found that it had to manage two different electronic data interchange (EDI) systems. 3dfx has in the past been using traditional EDI over a value-added network (VAN). In the new environment, the company chose IPNet Solutions' IPNet eBizness Transact electronic commerce software and found it to be a robust transaction management solution.
Brand recognition is a springboard.
Company Business and Marketing
Company Operations Proflowers.com, an online florist which delivers throughout the world, has deployed a new electronic commerce system with CacheFlow's special-purpose caching servers. The CacheFlow appliances and its operating system, CacheOS, offer server-side caching (reverse proxy caching), enabling Proflowers.com to handle 250,000 transactions per day. Caching boosts response times up to tenfold, greating enhancing Web users' online experience.
Buyers Guide A buyer's guide is provided of various electronic-commerce products and services. Information includes contaccts, phone numbers and company Web addresses.
News Briefs
Technology Information Advanced wireless bridging and routing solutions are making Internet access possible for isolated communities such as rural school districts, healthcare facilities, factories and offshore vessels. The Buncombe County School District, in mountainous North Carolina, implemented a wireless wide area network (WAN) from Solectrek.
Call it what you like; it's an ASP.
Industry Trend or Event The application service provider market is complex, providers must address small and large businesses, and offer traditional services such as outsourcing, integration and support in addition to managed services, networks and even enterprise applications. Distinctions within the industry will be made based on quality of service, rather than how the service was delivered.
State university graduates to high-speed online library access.
Technology Information Pennsylvania State University's library system has deployed a Gigabit Ethernet network backbone to handle the ever increasing volume of library traffic. The Penn State Libraries network supports 1,400 local workstations, 160 student-accessible databases and more than 20 servers, arranged in seven campus library buildings with open port networking.
Improve service levels with meaningful measurement.
Technology Information Successful service management depends on having an accurate way of measuring service levels. Techniques for measuring customer and vendor service levels are quite different. Total service availability (TSA), the primary metric for gauging customer service levels, is a weighted availability metric that does not penalize users for implementing redundant components for critical services.
Company Operations
Company Business and Marketing
Company Business and Marketing
Technology Information - Brief Article
Network unites city, school district.
Product Information
Product Information
Storage networks gird for explosive growth.
Technology Information Network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs) are important new applications for Fibre Channel technology. NAS devices use a dedicated server, optimized for input/output operations and easy administration, in place of standard Windows NT/2000, Unix or NetWare application servers, thus boosting performance.
Technology Information Telecommunications carriers can enhance their profit margins and resist the commoditization of their industry by developing more services and content. For example, offering ASP services is more lucrative that leasing space on T1 lines. Moreover, offering users access to content and applications enhances the value to any online service.
