David Newman

Let me be the first to admit test labs have gotten something very basic very wrong: We put too much emphasis on throughput because it's simple and sexy. What could be cooler than seeing how fast the latest network widget runs? Plenty, as it turns out.

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Single-box quality-of-service measurements in routers aren

This product review takes a look at Enterasys Networks

This switch helps relieve backbone congestion.

A few years back, when I was buying tests instead of running my own benchmarks, I asked a prospective supplier what tool it used to measure Ethernet switch performance. Its answer: Microsoft Word. I kid you not.

Privacy and security issues have been hearty, if time-consuming, policy dishes at the dinner table of the Lac Carling Congress since its inception. They also figure in the menu of the Public Sector Chief Information Officers Council. Indeed many conferences and learned committees link privacy and security together, and with good reason. Though the two are very different, they have much in common.

Public Works and Government Services Canada, the purchasing arm of the federal government, has quietly launched an ambitious program to make federal procurement systems and processes fully electronic.