Carly Suppa

For field engineers in the carrier space, analyzing telecom and datacom optical networks typically used to mean lugging around several handheld devices.

With the virtual extinction of start-ups and dot-coms, the question that remains in the minds of newly unemployed IT professionals is:

"Gigabit Ethernet is definitely growing," Vickers said.

Once upon a time, major financial institutions reigned over virtually every piece of the payment kingdom. However, according to a recent Gartner Group report, new wireless technology operators have begun to threaten the banking industry

Nearly two years after its first release, Platform Computing recently announced version 2.0 of its SiteAssure system.

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Nothing in this world is completely problem-free. Multi-million dollar data centres, call centres and computer rooms occasionally experience disturbances that could inevitably affect millions of dollars in revenue. To help alleviate this problem, Phonetics Inc. of Aston, Penn. recently released the Sensaphone 2000, a monitoring and reporting system that allows telecommunications operators to monitor unattended or remote sites on a 24/7 basis.

Combining the features of its inventory products with its software distribution products, Vector Networks recently released version 5.03 of the LANutil Suite, a PC auditing and software distribution product. The company said that through the combination of the two products in the newest version, users have not only the ability to report on PC assets, but are now able to deploy software to them as well.