Wednesday, October 31, 2007

ISPs want to rule the world; Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat

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WAN News Alert, 10/31/07

ISPs want to rule the world: Jason and Keith gab about Comcast's broadband meddling, the Facebook / Microsoft love affair, and whether the Internet can be a good substitute for a significant other.

Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth, 10/30/07: Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.

Hibernia Atlantic upgrades undersea network capacity, 10/26/07: In response to increasing bandwidth demands, Hibernia Atlantic announced this week that it had upgraded its undersea data transport span from Boston to Halifax to 40G capacity.

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1 comment:

Justin Lofton said...

For WAN acceleration, Riverbed Steelhead seems to have the best application acceleration solution. Their WAN optimization technology is the best of breed in my experience.

Justin Lofton
Systems Engineer
Tredent Data Systems, Inc.
WAN Acceleration Information
justinl@tredent.com
Riverbed Steelhead Appliance