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2007: The year in... network architecture

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2007: The year in...network architecture

Jeff Caruso By Jeff Caruso
Well, the end of the year certainly crept up on me. This is the last newsletter of 2007, which means it's time for our annual look back at the year that was. Read full story

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World. Contact him.

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Valuable networking how-tos and hints and tips from our Cisco Subnet bloggers From advice on implementing IPv6, to protecting your network edge, to designing a network, to repairing a Cisco faceplate with easy-to-find items at your nearest hardware store, go here for a sampling of the easy-to-follow how-tos and implementation blog items written over the past year by Network World's growing group of Cisco Subnet bloggers.

How far does Cisco's new digital ID policy stamp out exam cheating? Cisco is now requiring all students to give digital signatures and digital photographs before taking tests. How far does this stop the widescale Cisco exam cheating industry?

Intel goes open source with 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet' package, 12/18/07 Intel this week released a software package intended to encourage development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet products for the Linux operating system.

How feds are dropping the ball on IPv6, 12/17/07 U.S. federal agencies have six months to meet a deadline to support IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol known as IPv4. But most agencies are not grabbing hold of the new technology and running with it, industry observers say.

IPv6 guru predicts last-minute switch to protocol, 12/17/07 Jim Bound, Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force, CTO of the IPv6 Forum and a Senior HP Fellow, has been pushing the IPv6 boulder up the network hill for more than a decade. Bound doesn’t think the task of promoting IPv6 is as unending or ...

IPv6 vs. Y2K and GOSIP, 12/17/07 "I don’t see any kind of Y2K-like panic’’ among federal CIOs about the IPv6 mandate, says Charles Lee, CTO for Verizon Federal. "Getting compliant with the OMB requirement is not that hard.’’


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12/20/07

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

  1. How to really bury a mainframe
  2. BGP bug bites Juniper software
  3. 10 crazy USB stocking stuffers
  4. Xbox signal jamming WLANs
  5. 15 must-have Firefox tricks
  6. Feds are dropping the ball on IPv6
  7. Microsoft security update cripples IE
  8. Phone-record thieves laugh at the law
  9. Guru predicts last-minute IPv6 switch
  10. New Sprint chief Hesse faces a big inbox


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