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Thursday, March 09, 2000
Firms must do homework before turning to application service providers Early in the New Year, Network World Canada hosted a round table of some of the movers and shakers in the Canadian carrier and ISP market. One of our goals was to find out what trends and technologies these industry players thought would be hot this year. Network services outsourcing was a consensus pick. So was wireless. But one of the biggest emerging trends – application service providers (ASPs) – merited only a lukewarm response.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Fluke aims to simplify network testing ‘Interactive’ and ‘user-friendly’ are important features in the consumer market, but the corporate network testing market is a few steps behind. 
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Hitting back at hackers In police work, sometimes the longest journeys end with the shortest trips. That’s what happened to Brian Koref, who spent months at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) tracking down a pair of Swedish hackers who invaded U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, NASA and other military systems, helping themselves to password files and other sensitive data in the process.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Intel applies itself to networking Intel Corp. is best known for its processors which power a majority of the world’s PCs and servers. However, the company also has a networking division that develops a variety of network infrastructure products. Network World Canada’s associate editor Michael Martin recently spoke with Sean Maloney, senior vice-president and director of sales and marketing for Intel, while he was in Toronto to deliver a keynote speech at February’s Internet World and ISPCON Canada 2000, about the direction of Intel’s networking efforts.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Intel intros network appliances Setting its sights squarely on an emerging category of products for the data centre, Intel last month unveiled a line of branded devices aimed at accelerating e-business traffic as it flows between the router and the server farm.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Is a new Internet architecture needed? I got a call from a reporter the other day. He wanted to talk about the denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on prominent Internet sites, including Yahoo Inc., CNN and eBay Inc. He did have some idea what was going on (not always the case when I get such a call), but he seemed to want me to say that the architecture of the Internet needed to be changed to deal with such attacks. I declined to do so.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Look looks to offer high-speed wireless Quebec-based wireless broadband carrier Look Communications Inc. and Cisco Systems Canada Co. have teamed up to offer Look’s customers expanded wireless Internet services.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Lucent’s MCS provides voice browsing Lucent Technologies’ Mobile Communications System (MCS) is poised to release its first two applications: Internet Message Management (IMM) and Voice Browsing.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Network managers must strive to understand the implications of voice/data convergence Not since the early 1980s when Novell Inc. began empowering PC users - and scaring SNA network managers - have we confronted such a fundamental change in corporate networks. The convergence of voice and data - finally a reality after several false starts - marks another critical turning point in the evolution of corporate IT. IP telephony is in your future. Deny that and you might not have a future.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Novell tears down the walls With the recent launch of a new strategy and a series of product announcements, it appears as if Novell Inc. might be attempting to make its presence known -– something that is long overdue, according to one analyst.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
PDAs and wireless Internet could finally make computing truly mobile If you watch TV these days, you can’t miss commercials for wireless Internet service. Some content providers are even designing pages for the microdisplay limitations of personal communications services (PCS) phones. But the real utility of Web surfing on a display the size of a postage stamp has yet to be proved. Could wireless Web be doomed to the fate of previous portable data technologies such as Cellular Digital Packet Data? Maybe not.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Service simplifies Web surfing Corporate workgroups looking for a more productive way to search the Web can now access a free Internet service for sharing bookmarks that was developed at the Xerox Corp. Palo Alto Research Center.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Sun-Netscape Alliance introduces portal platform The Sun-Netscape Alliance unveiled in February its iPlanet Portal Server, an e-commerce-focused portal creation and deployment platform that comes in three forms which are designed to address the needs of enterprise businesses and service providers.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Tales of a project management veteran Consultant Loren Hicks sees himself as a risk-taker who thrives on uncertainty. And he’s had several careers to prove it.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
The need to place blame Last week, a number of big Web sites, including Yahoo Inc., Buy.com Inc., eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., were each shut down for a few hours by a series of distributed denial-of- service attacks. Now we’re all looking for the bad guys - we want someone to blame.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
UUNET launches new services UUNET Canada is the latest service provider to jump into the business-class ADSL game. 
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Veritas targets smaller markets Veritas Software Corp. has extended its NetBackup storage software line to small- and medium-sized businesses with NetBackup BusinesServer.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
ASPs: the new frontier of on-line solutions From Carol DoCuoto’s perspective, the future of e-commerce lies totally within the ability of application service providers (ASPs) to become business to business (B2B) hubs and provide a variety of applications and utilities through a series of partnerships.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
3Com ships high-speed wireless LAN products 3Com Canada Inc. became among the first 802.11b high-speed wireless LAN vendors to market when it began shipping its 3Com AirConnect 11Mbps Wireless LAN this month.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
ASPs set for take-off Predictions about the Application Service Provider (ASP) market have been unvarying -- the market will explode, or so most analysts say. Yet so far the Canadian market has remained calm, perhaps the quiet before the storm.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Attacks bring down several big sites A day after the U.S. Web sites of Yahoo Inc. were targeted with a denial of service attack, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc. and Buy.com Inc. all said problems experienced by their Web sites on Feb. 8 were due to similar attacks.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
BCE, Nortel separation should help both firms, analysts say BCE Inc. intends to distribute its approximate 37 per cent interest in Nortel Networks to BCE’s nearly 500,000 shareholders in what analysts are calling a windfall.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Beta tester: Win2000 better than NT Where most companies are being cautious and taking a we’ll-wait-and-see approach, Mississauga, Ont.-based Cara Operations Ltd. is forging ahead in a play designed to give the company a more stable system.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Cisco earnings continue to soar Earlier this month, internetworking giant Cisco Systems Inc. reported net income of US$825 million for the last quarter, almost tripling the company’s income from the same period a year ago.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Cisco gains VPN boost from buys Targeting the full spectrum of companies wanting to run their growing e-businesses over an Internet-based virtual private network, Cisco Systems Inc. is beefing up its enterprise and service provider VPN wares through two separate acquisitions.