Kevin Tolly

With Y2K worries over, you can finally turn up the heat on long-neglected projects. If industry analysts are correct, renting applications from application service providers (ASP) will be a focus of activity. But as you draw up your plan and rough out your budget, don

Ordinarily, the announcement of a voice/video/data convergence strategy is not particularly noteworthy. The usual pattern with such announcements is that once the fanfare dies out, the architects behind the endeavor rarely realize their dream.

Life was simple at Layer 3. Because the IP routing function is so straightforward, benchmarking the performance of Layer 3 LAN switches engendered little confusion. But those days are over. With the arrival of Layer 4+ switches, benchmarking will never be the same.

When the big guys go up against the start-ups over campus LAN strategies, the vendors almost always wind up arguing over the merits of a

 

Imagine, if you dare, if Ethernet