Kevin Tolly

For network managers who've outfitted their servers with Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards in recent years, the results definitely have been of the "glass half-full" variety.

As wireless LANs have rocketed into the consciousness of corporate managers in the past year or so, existing and prospective vendors in that space have been quick to point out how not to build a WLAN.

Being based on the East Coast, I don't get out to Silicon Valley as often as I should.

Behaving more like a glacier than a hot technology, IPv6 has been everyone's "sometime in the future" technology for years. The coming surge in...

Ever since the mid-

If you want any evidence about the impact of lean economic times on the networking economy, all you have to do is look at the business model for voice over IP.

The bandwidth glut that occurred in the mid-1990s when switched and Fast Ethernet started to appear on campus networks played a significant role in suppressing interest in implementing LAN-based quality-of-service schemes. In a somewhat bizarre twist, the move to wireless may well cause this situation to reverse itself.

IPX routing: relevant or relegated to the junk heap of networking? Some recent events have brought forth this question, according to columnist Kevin Tolly.