eWEEK EDITORS

As Johna Till Johnson watched 7 World Trade Center collapse, burying Verizon Communications megacentral office in rubble, she had an epiphany. “If they really wanted to do damage, they would have taken out the telco building,” she said. “They went after the thing that had press potential.” Johnson wasnt alone in that assessment. Although the […]

In a world that runs on information, the loss of Cable News Network in a crisis might seem unthinkable. But today, the cable infrastructure is carrying a lot more than Animal Planet and reruns of The Brady Bunch, and like all other networks, it has its vulnerable points. About 70 million U.S. homes receive video […]

Most enterprises are poorly prepared to deal with natural disasters or terrorist attacks, often because they wrongly assume their circuit-switched networks have end-to-end backup resiliency. The typical enterprise relies on an amalgam of circuit-switched, Ethernet, IP and wireless networks that far too often share the same central office and dont have the redundant routing to […]

One of the least vulnerable networks is metro Ethernet, which has a multiple-ring architecture that lets data change directions and reroute if it runs into congestion or equipment failure. It also lets customers ratchet up bandwidth in seconds – rather than days – during an emergency. Gigabit Ethernet networks can be constructed with so much […]

As I approach another wedding anniversary, I am reminded of how great married life can be but also how vital communicating expectations is to a relationship. That applies to relationships between e-business partners as well as between married couples. A couple of years ago, when the “old” New Economy was in its heyday, arranged marriages […]

Global Spree Global Sports is continuing its push beyond the sporting goods scene, this time striking a deal to acquire luxury goods retailer Ashford.com for about $14.2 million. Global Sports operates the e-commerce Web sites for such retailers as Athletes Foot and The Sports Authority. Last month the company announced it would take over the […]

Seven Ways To Heal America In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against America, many of our readers asked us how they could help to heal our country. In response, we offer the following seven suggestions: 1. Leave your biases behind. Americas quest for justice has had tragic results, as bias crimes against […]

What do you get when you place two (or more) honeypots into a network? The answer is a honeynet. The idea of creating a network of lures was the seminal idea behind the Honeynet Project (http://project.honeynet.org), a non-profit, IT security research group started in 1999. The groups charter is to raise awareness of the threats […]

Enrons brief venture into content distribution should serve as a warning to other network-based carriers considering wading into the untested waters of this new business model. “A lot of these guys built out haphazardly, and tried to keep up with competition by anticipating the demand that no one had the tools to forecast,” says Greg […]

The four-bedroom San Clemente, Calif., home that real estate agent Richard Malland lists for $829,000 recently appeared as one of the featured homes on auction site eBay. But that doesnt mean Malland is auctioning the house. In fact, he doesnt even like the term “bid” when it comes to real estate. “When you bid, it […]