Mary Petrosky

Articles by Mary Petrosky

The promised LAN

If you operate a private ATM campus network or metropolitan-area network, a Multi-protocol Label Switch Layer 2 VPN could be a cost-effective, high-speed alternative.

The promised LAN

If you operate a private ATM campus network or metropolitan-area network, a Multi-protocol Label Switch Layer 2 VPN could be a cost-effective, high-speed alternative.

MAN technologies will benefit providers and users

Service providers in the metropolitan-area network arena are in the midst of a technology explosion.

Life cannot be lived completely over the Internet

As we step into the 21st century, I

Gigabit Ethernet MANs will be a hot technology

While 1000Base-T was all the rage at NetWorld+Interop

Policy capabilities help drive RSVP

Just when you thought it was safe to ignore the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), the industry is looking to exploit this signalling scheme for everything from quality of service (QoS) to traffic engineering to policy-based management. Fortunately, the renewed interest in RSVP is prompting the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to address some of the protocol

A sure foundation for policy management

Like FTP Software Inc. and other TCP/IP stack vendors before it, independent vendors of IP management products have essentially disappeared from the market.

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