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More redundancy needed for global links
News Ongoing and planned network upgrades between Asia and U.S. sufficient for bandwidth demands, but ISPs need redundancy to better manage outages.
Tags: Bandwidth, Ethernet, Pacnet Ltd., BGP, network, Asia, Broadband, Cable, Internet Service Provider, network provider
Buffalo AirStation Nfiniti Wireless-N
Reviews Flexible configuration is a plus for business use, but the AirStation Nfiniti Wireless-N is not the fastest Draft-N solution around and lacks interoperability.
Ten tips for preparing a Wi-Fi rollout
Insight Rolling out a wireless LAN within your organization is more complicated than just plugging in a wireless access point. Find out what factors you should consider before taking the plunge.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Security, Internet Access, Wireless, Wireless Network, WLAN, WPA, Wi-Fi, wireless router
Researchers exploit Web protocol to hijack traffic
News At the recent Defcon security conference, Alex Pilosov and Tony Kapela demonstrated an attack on BGP, the core Internet routing protocol.
Tags: Security, Protocols and platforms, BGP, Information Security, network, researcher, Internet Service Provider, Internet, monitor, analyst
Full disclosure: The only protocol for Net security
News news analysis The big BGP threat to the Internet is not new at all--but a bigger fix is required.
Tags: Security, Web sites, Disclosure, BGP, Conference, researcher, Internet Service Provider, Internet, industry, strategy
Expert: Router holes threaten Net
News The border gateway protocol, a widely used technology for efficiently routing data through the Internet, is rife with security holes and needs to be replaced, a security consultant warned.
How much does unwanted Internet traffic really cost?
Techguide Have you ever wondered just how much "junk" Internet traffic is costing your company? Learn how to go about gathering this information.
Tags: Security, Network security, Spam and phishing
Net threat overstated, says security researcher
News Widespread reports about a flawed communications protocol making the Internet vulnerable to collapse were overblown, according to the researcher credited with uncovering the security problem.
Tags: TCP/IP, Network security
Net weakness seen in YouTube outage
News The video-sharing site went dark all across the world in a chain of events that started in Pakistan. How exactly was that possible?
Tags: Video, Security, Politics
Create an IP addressing plan that will grow
Insight Plan ahead to ensure you have plenty of addresses available to meet your organization's growing needs.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Networking
Cisco finds more security flaws in router software
Insight The company reports three more vulnerabilities in certain versions of its routing software.
Tags: Hacking
A chink in the old warrior?
Insight The most popular of all data communications protocol, transmission control protocol (TCP), has a flaw that could let attackers sever connections between servers and routers, an advisory says.
Will an open source router replace your Cisco router?
Insight How do Vyatta's open source routers stack up to Cisco? David Davis took one for a test drive to find out.
Tags: Networking, LANs and WANs, Network administration/implementation, Routing/switching, Open source
IPv6 for a larger, more secure Internet
Insight One of the improvements in the Windows XP client and the .NET server family, is built-in support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), also referred to as the next generation IP or IPng. This version of IP provides several advancements over the most-used IP version, IPv4. This article not only gives a brief overview of IPv6, but it will discuss the features of Microsoft’s implementation, and show you how to install and configure the protocol as supported by XP and .NET.
Exploit found for Net flaw, but risks remote
News Malicious code is unearthed that can exploit a widely reported flaw in a popular Net protocol and possibly disrupt data transmissions, but experts say the risk of real world problems remains low.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Protocols and platforms
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