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Comment Technical speak is now so ingrained that most of us only realise we have reverted to LAN, WAN, SAN argot when the faces of non-technical people sitting around the table become blank with incomprehension.
[17 Mar 2008]
Comment CIOs will have to deal not only with LAN and WAN performance but with managing internal and purchased content. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield.
[29 Nov 2007]
Comment Find out more in Quocirca's freee white paper A Short Guide to a Fast WAN. But that does not mean there is nothing to be done - there are many ways to control and accelerate WAN traffic to ensure employees' communications remain reliable and...
[09 Jul 2007]
Comment The majority of telecoms managers and IT directors in small and medium-sized businesses view convergence as the introduction of IP telephony into the LAN and WAN, what we commonly call voice-data convergence.
[07 Dec 2006]
Comment On private networks - LAN, WAN or in the carrier's core - application performance can be assured using two distinct quality of service parameters: DiffServ and MPLS. To ensure voice quality, it is critical to evaluate what other demands are being...
[10 Feb 2005]
Comment Most times I merely ask for permission to connect to a company LAN or WAN and get on with the job. According to Peter Cochrane, it's becoming increasingly easy to get online in office buildings and public places - if you show a little ingenuity.
[17 Jun 2004]
Round-Up The Round-Up can't help but wonder that much in the same way Obi-wan Kenobi observed that Darth Vader had became "more machine now than man", that IE is "more patch now than browser". This week, the Round-Up is proud to present: seven steps from...
[13 Feb 2004]
Comment It’s often between six and 12 months before voice can be integrated into the WAN, especially if it’s an MPLS-based network, because that’s still such a new technology. Long billed as the future of telecoms, IP telephony has struggled to take hold...
[10 Sep 2003]
Comment IP VPNs use either the public internet or a private IP network as their WAN link. Businesses currently looking to sweat their customer premise equipment (CPE) investments are looking to replace their permanent WAN links with IP VPN virtual circuits...
[29 May 2003]
Comment All are generally considered to be more cost effective than the permanent leased lines that are the WAN link of choice at the moment. In fact, it's not inaccurate to describe IP VPNs as the next big thing in the WAN, even if they have been a long...
[20 May 2003]
Comment In particular, voice quality problems are most likely to occur on the WAN, where the bandwidth available for transmission is less than that available on the LAN. Doing it right takes ongoing management, says Anthony Plewes, and there are a number...
[14 May 2003]
Comment In the metropolitan and wide area networks (MAN and WAN) MPLS has a bright future. Are we on the verge of a step-change in the quality of networking, a change that will put what we've come to expect from the likes of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM...
[28 Nov 2001]
Comment And there you have it: Gigabit Ethernet allows networks to become one fat pipe running from the LAN to the MAN and - according to future take up by the market - to the home and WAN as well. In short, this pipe is fat, fast and cheap, leading to...
[30 Oct 2001]
Comment To extend the reach of such systems over public internet requires additional sophistication in network and security management not economically supportable across a global WAN by a customer's internal services.
[25 May 2001]
Comment ASP, ATM, CTI, ISP, LAN, GIF, WAN, WAP.the list is as long as your arm, if not longer. We need another three-letter acronym like we need a hole in the head. Of late, a new TLA (three-letter acronym) has appeared on the scene: EAI, or enterprise...
[25 May 2000]
Comment See '3Com re-jig leads to sale of LAN and WAN assets' http://www.silicon.com/a36459 ) In the frenetic stock market of the Internet age, potential for growth is paramount. The ability to make and sell products to achieve a steady revenue stream is...
[27 Mar 2000]
Comment Unix, AS400, WAN, LAN, NT, PBX, C++, Visual C++. Take a look at the IT job ads in your daily newspaper or weekly magazine. To the uninitiated, the headlines read like they were created by a clumsy copywriter who leant on their keyboard by mistake.
[27 Oct 1998]
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