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For the little guy Dallas-based Efficient Networks Inc. is launching a symmetric, high-density digital subscriber line gateway for small and midsize businesses, branch offices, and teleworkers. Faster data processing SHDSL is an International Telecommunications Union-approved standard, which makes it easier to provision with multivendor network equipment. It provides 2.3M bps in both directions over a […]

Chief Information Officers are a tired bunch these days, struggling to outrun their companies swiftly growing bandwidth demands while trying to wrestle with barely increasing budgets. Theyre losing the race. Bandwidth demand doubles or quadruples annually among the largest enterprises. However, the cost falls only about 20 percent per year. Enter Gigabit Ethernet, a newish […]

Wireless is the ultimate in mobility, but it comes at a cost. Case in point: I was riding the bus on Mission Street in San Francisco the other day, happily writing an article when I hit Second Street. My Cisco Aironet 350 client adapter beamed to life and I had Internet access. Someone, somewhere close […]

The powerful Netscreen-500 firewall and VPN combination with a Gigabit fiber interface delivers exceptional high-bandwidth throughput, transferring data at almost 750M bps across the firewall and as fast as 243M bps with 168-bit Triple DES encryption through a site-to-site virtual private network tunnel in eWeek Labs tests. In addition to great throughput, the new high-end […]

A Federal Appeals Court will decide just how free some information is allowed to be on the Internet. Whats on the line is whether it is legal to break the locks applied to digital content to prevent it from being copied. The movie industry claims that upholding a lower courts ruling banning DVD-hacking software will […]

Like a local weatherman, many high-tech CFOs are under fire for making bad financial forecasts. Predicting quarterly results isnt easy, but savvy consulting firms have built strong internal systems to make more accurate—though certainly not perfect—sales forecasts. Armed with those forecasts, smart CFOs pull no punches as they manage financial expectations on Wall Street. Just […]

Now that all of PSINets assets are on the block, industry watchers are speculating about which company will buy the pieces of the fallen telecom empire. The crown jewel is the companys backbone, one of the largest in the world. PSINets Web hosting assets are also impressive, though the last few turbulent months have taken […]

If one views the stock market as the ultimate gauge of corporate success, then, without doubt, the most successful professional-services company in America is Electronic Data Systems Corp. While its competitors are selling between 50 percent and 99 percent below their 52-week highs, EDSs stock on May 1 closed just below $65, only a few […]

By now, Qwest Communications surely has digested its biggest meal—the June 2000 takeover of US West—but the lion is still hungry. It is champing at the bit to offer long-distance service to 14 Western states and expects to seek FCC approval for at least one of those states by summers end. The Denver-based telecommunications giant […]

A growing number of electric companies are hoping to make the Web a primary energy-conservation tool. This week, major California electric utilities are expected to sign contracts worth $35 million that will pay for the installation of about 20,000 intelligent electric power meters at the states biggest industrial power users. The new meters will allow […]

Last month when IBM announced its strong first-quarter results, company chairman and CEO Lou Gerstner explained why IBM was performing so well when the economy was in the tank. “In the face of weakening economic conditions,” he said, “the validity of the strategy we put in place over the last five years was underscored time […]

Ariba is redrawing its road map, but the highways all look the same. After scrapping its much-touted acquisition of Agile Software, and posting a shockingly bad Q1, the B2B company last week outlined plans to make do with what assets it had left. That includes its Buyer e-procurement application, which accounts for the bulk of […]