Monthly Archives: April 2001
Networking Fiber
Fortune 500 businesses just might be ready to own their own fiber pairs by 2004, when Aerie Networks completes its 194-city route and starts...
Bandwidth Traders Gleeful Amid Gloom
Telephone companies and equipment makers may be gloomy, but bandwidth traders are whistling while they work. Trading outfits including Enron said volumes are increasing,...
Align Your Backbone With the Right Bandwidth
Choosing the right bandwidth to connect to the backbone is a piece of cake—once you know which ingredients youre looking for.First, youll need to...
Look Whos Talking: April 16, 2001
Some companies are going to pieces right about now. Others are finding unique ways to build loyalty within the ranks. Just ask Acxiom, a...
Many Choices, Little Time
Want to work with Cisco Systems? Then answer this three-word question: Whats your specialty?Rather than working with generalists, Ciscos new partner program emphasizes specialization...
Apache 2.0 Scales to Windows
Finally kicking the door open to widespread corporate Windows deployment and dramatically boosting Unix scalability via threads, The Apache Software Foundation has released the...
Crash-Proof Is Fine, but Give Me Security
I have Microsofts Jim Allchin on the phone, and in my head Im counting up the number of Windows versions Im running at home....
B2B Collective Had It Coming
Our page 1 story last week on business-to-business vendor woes may have been a bit harsh, but it was right on the money, in...
Spectrum Crunch
U.S. wireless spectrum policy clearly isnt working and until its changed, cell phone users will pay higher prices and competitive providers will be prevented...
Time To Upgrade? Try Nearly New Equipment
The growing need for IT infrastructure has become a big issue in todays business, as evidenced by IBM spending top dollar in prime-time advertising....