Phil Hochmuth

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Technologists push Ethernet to new areas

Experts a recent networking conference gave a preview of some of these new Ethernet frontiers, which include Layer 2 Ethernet for last-mile access and squeezing 10 billion bits of data over a Category 6 cable

10G Ethernet vendors look to stoke demand

Network vendors recently introduced a variety of 10G Ethernet wares aimed at customers seeking to bump up bandwidth in large data centres and campus backbones.

Cisco PBX adds encryption support for VoIP devices

Cisco Systems Inc. this week launched an upgrade to its CallManager IP PBX platform, broadening its encryption support for IP phones and other VoIP devices, such as VoIP gateways and voice-mail servers.

Foundry switch software secures WLANs

More secure WLANs with AND increased wireless client roaming. Foundry Networks Inc. is working on making it possible.

3Com prepares Linux-based IP PBX

3Com Corp. is readying a Linux-based appliance version of its VCX 7700 enterprise IP PBX in hopes that an open source version of the product will be easier to sell through its channel partners.

Force10 manages to raise the 10G bar, again

Force10 Networks Inc. recently refreshed its 10G switch product line, doubling the switching capacity and port densities on all its chassis. The new...

Still no word from ET

An alien hunt has been underway for more than five years using five million Internet-linked PCs, as part of a project called SETI@Home. With more than 70 teraflops of computer power, the SETI@ Home project is one of the world

Bank of America to deploy 180,000 IP phones

Bank of America Corp. this week announced plans for a corporate-wide IP telephony rollout that will eventually put an IP phone on every BoA employee

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