Carly Suppa

Delay, echo and static are big no-nos when it comes to voice quality over a network. And although testing for these problems has been a traditionally time-consuming and costly task, one company has developed a tool that it says requires little operator intervention.

The world of networking has undergone some unique changes in the last few years, and most noteworthy of late has been the slow, but steady waves goodbye to the days of circuit switched, replaced by the embrace of voice over IP (VoIP).

The number of viruses and malicious threats is ever on the rise, and beefing up security at the PC level is becoming not only increasingly important, but imperative to the health of the corporate network.

While demand for networked storage continues to rise, a new culprit is expected to take up more than half the storage resources in the not-so-distant future.

When the City of Burlington, Ont. planned its new Web strategy, it found that offering e-services to its citizens was going to be a difficult and costly task.

For the last 20 years, Hewlett Packard has been making high-end servers addressing the needs of the enterprise market, and it has shown no signs of stopping.

For the network manager, the basic task of keeping Web apps up and running is the likely cause of many a headache and ulcers a-plenty.

Widely deployed interconnect technologies such as Ethernet and iSCSI may have some stiff competition from a new, faster and heftier networking protocol that has begun to make waves in the industry.