August
2001 Issue
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EDITORIAL
News
Front
Online
protection from new worms
THE
SirCam and Code Red worms were doing the rounds on the
Net recently and caused havoc to corporate e-mail systems.
Now network anti-virus majors Trend Micro and McAfee
are offering protection from these new worms.
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Cover
Story
Servers
shape up for scalability, availability
Though
mainframe computers continue to exist, servers rule the roost
in today's businesses, and borrow from mainframe designs the
threat to Unix servers has increased now that Intel has launched
its 64-bit processor. Itanium's new architecture has attracted
manufacturers of RISC-based servers
E-security
moves towards simple managed solutions
Enterprises
are now more aware about security and are looking for sophisticated
solutions that are easy to manage and implement
Wireless
technologies continue to evolve
As
various wireless technologies continue to evolve around the
world, it will be the usefulness of content and applications,
interoperable standards, and user acceptance that decide their
fate
Optical
networking yet to see the light of day
The
demand for bandwidth is driving the growth of the optical
networking industry. But carriers are not upgrading their
backbones fast enough and prefer to wait for 3G networks to
roll out.
Broadband
will be driven by rich multimedia content
Broadband
will really happen when companies come together to offer consumers
a convergent solution, from Internet access to voice, and
from entertainment & information, to e-commerce.
Other
Features
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Buying
Tips
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Glossary
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Terminal
Adapters
Terminal adapters allow
you to leverage the benefits offered by ISDN.
Here are some tips on buying these devices
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Terminologies
Simplified
Multiplexer
A device that accepts multiple electronic transmission
signals and combines them into one high-speed transmission.
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Technology
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Inperson
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Converged
networks: The future?
Here
are some global trends in the communication arena,
which are leading to the evolution of converged
networks and the challenges involved in building
such networks
Network Management Solutions
for IP-VPN Services
Service Provider's profitability in the New
World will be defined by their ability to rapidly
introduce new services tailored to the specific
needs of their customers.
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"The
market in India is warming to the fact that security
is an important factor"
Recognising
the need to provide E-Security solutions , Global
Telesystems Ltd (GTL) has floated a separate company,
Global E-Secure Ltd.
'India
is ready for the development and use of free software'
Richard
Stallman, founder and president of the Free
Software Foundation was in India to officially
launch a sister concern of the FSF in Trivandrum.
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Security
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Q-Support
Corner
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Digital
Watermarking - Steering the future of security
Online content delivery
faces massive hurdles in the absence of a secure
framework for protecting valuable data.
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Troubleshooting
Techniques
If you use lower grade cabling (CAT 3 or CAT 4),
you may get a connection, but will soon experience
data loss or slow performance
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Basics
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ISDN:
An Alternative to Dial-Up?
ISDN
is the faster alternative to dial-up Net access.
We give you a lowdown on this technology and the
issues involved in implementing it
Terminal Adapters
Terminal adapters allow
you to leverage the benefits offered by ISDN.
Here are some tips on buying these devices
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India’s
first level 3 data centre
Satyam
Hosting commissioned the country's first Level 3
Internet data center at International Infotech Park,
Vashi, Navi Mumbai, thereby eliminating the need
for India centric applications to seek hosting services
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Events*
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Workshop
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Hitachi
guns for enterprise storage solutions, organises
forums
The
Japanese conglomerate sees India as one of its
prime markets for storage solutions, its fastest
growing business
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Configuring
Sendmail
Here
are some hands-on steps for configuring sendmail,
the most popular Unix-based implementation of
the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol for transmitting
e-mail
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ShelfSpace
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Inbox
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DLT
tape Library from Quantum
Fabric
Switch from Vixel
Caching
products from MRO-TEK
Range
of NAS products from IBM
ISDN
Router Range from D-Link
NetScreen
Appliances from Apara
Compaq
StorageWorks MSL5026SL |
STATEFUL
INSPECTION OF FIREWALLS
I read with interest the article 'Firewalls: Gatekeepers
to your Network' in the July 2001 issue of Network
Magazine. The article explained in simplistic
terms what a Firewall is.
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