Sandra Gittlen

What is driving the need for 100G Ethernet? There are many applications where you're seeing the need for 100G emerging. Some examples are Internet exchanges, carriers and high-performance computing.

The 2006 Workplace E-mail, Instant Messaging & Blog Survey by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute found that 24 percent of responding organizations have had employee e-mail subpoenaed and 15 percent have gone to court to battle lawsuits triggered by employee e-mail.

While companies such as Alcatel SA, Cisco Systems Inc., Extreme Networks Inc., Finisar Corp. and Foundry Networks Inc. describe the glories of Gigabit Ethernet-enabled desktops, network managers wince. They say it's all going too fast.

Debates about the security of IP VPNs rage on throughout the industry, but many large VPN users are most worried about what happens to their traffic when it reaches a recipient

Frame relay works well on private networks, but is it doomed in an era of low-cost, high-speed access to the public Internet?

Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers told attendees of his ComNet keynote that they better not sink any more money into their voice networks.

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is trying to make network administrators extinct.The document company's free-thinking research...

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is trying to make network administrators extinct.