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LAS VEGAS - Your complete roundup of all the news from NetWorld+Interop 2003, as reported by Network World's award-winning news staff.

Wireless LAN switch feast
May. 12, 2003
The CEOs and founders of five wireless LAN switch start-ups broke bread with Network World editors at Rosemary's Restaurant during NetWorld+Interop, Las Vegas. The idea was that between bites of Ahi tuna and goat cheese ...

ROI rules show floor
May. 05, 2003
Reaping maximum ROI, rather than sowing the most bits per second, was the overriding theme at last week's NetWorld+Interop, as attendees gravitated to products and services that could help cut costs.

Reporter's Notebook
May. 05, 2003
Notes and observations from N+I 2003.

Smaller yes, but Interop bops
May. 05, 2003
Officially, Key3Media says the show had half the exhibit space of last year, which was itself half the size of the year before. That said, the show was vibrant. While the industry might be in a slump, technology is not ...

MCI service plans focus on convergence
May. 05, 2003
MCI, formerly WorldCom, launched its product strategy called Convergence Networking at NetWorld+Interop last week. The company is planning a series of product rollouts that center on voice and data convergence and ...

Foundry CEO on future of Ethernet
May. 05, 2003
Network World Senior Writer Phil Hochmuth recently spoke with Foundry Networks CEO Bobby Johnson about whether the market is ready to go 10 Gigabit.

U.K. keen on wireless LAN hot spots
May. 01, 2003
The future of wireless is a topic of major concern to the British government, which would like to coordinate with the United States as much as possible in terms of technologies, standards and regulation, says an ...

CA airs on-demand computing plan
Apr. 30, 2003
Now that HP, IBM, Microsoft and other system infrastructure companies have laid out their visions for utility computing, Computer Associates officials said Tuesday that the time is right for CA to jump in and offer a ...

MCI lays out service plans at N+I
Apr. 29, 2003
MCI promises new services and capital investments to build up its product portfolio throughout the year.

Wireless security is rising, but it's not fully baked yet
Apr. 28, 2003
In interoperability testing that NetWorld+Interop's iLabs Wireless Security team conducted earlier this month, we found that products supporting 802.1X -- the proposed standard for authentication in wireless networks ...

Foundry thinks big with Gigabit 'Mucho Grande' switch
Apr. 28, 2003
Foundry Networks this week will lob the latest round in the 10G Ethernet switch battle when it debuts its BigIron MG8 and NetIron 40G chassis at NetWorld+Interop.

iLabs engineers cook up 802.1X, iSCSI, MPLS tests
Apr. 28, 2003
The NetWorld+Interop 2003 InteropNet Labs - a neutral proving ground for vendors to publicly test their products in accordance with emerging standards - will focus on three areas this week in Las Vegas: 802.1X-based ...

What can iSCSI do for you?
Apr. 28, 2003
But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over a wireless network?

Adtran pumps up VPN support in low-end routers
Apr. 28, 2003
Adtran this week is continuing its attempt to give corporate customers low-priced remote network gear while trying to undercut the prices of low-end Cisco routers.

Showtime for VoIP, security
Apr. 28, 2003
3Com and Cisco will marshal a parade of IP telephony vendors pitching new wares this week at NetWorld+Interop as the industry moves to make enterprise voice over IP more scalable and IP phones more mobile.

Sprint pitches frame over DSL
Apr. 28, 2003
Sprint is promising to reduce local service costs by 25% to 30% for many customers with its Frame Relay over DSL service set to launch this week at NetWorld+Interop 2003.

WorldCom unveils new name, services
Apr. 21, 2003
Despite industry skepticism about WorldCom's future, new data services and a strong reliance on its IP backbone will be at the heart of the carrier's reorganization as it emerges from Chapter 11 proceedings later this ...

Mgmt. vendors to focus on automation
Apr. 28, 2003
A slew of management product vendors this week will use NetWorld+Interop to tout out-of-the-box automation, integration and visibility features.

Predictive technologies and self-healing networks
May. 12, 2003
Like many in the industry - although, perhaps, not that many - I was at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas for the last week in April. Among the countless meetings and chances to peek across the show floor, two panels were ...

What attendees are looking for at N+I
Apr. 30, 2003
We survey attendees to see what technologies they're looking to learn more about while attending N+I Las Vegas 2003.

Nortel to beef up VPN line
Apr. 30, 2003
Nortel next week will unveil the latest updates to its secure networking lineup, including new remote-access management software, a higher performance Contivity VPN platform and software that expands an enterprise's ...

Wireless switch start-up introduces .. boredom
Apr. 29, 2003
Yet another start-up in wireless LAN switches this week introduces what executives say is the most boring wireless switch on the market.

Chambers lashes out at stock-option requirements
Apr. 29, 2003
Requiring companies to expense employee stock options is likely to threaten a key form of compensation in high-tech companies and send jobs out of the U.S., Cisco President and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday in a ...

Wi-Fi group certifies new security capabilities
Apr. 29, 2003
Signaling the next step in securing standard wireless LAN access points, the Wi-Fi Alliance Tuesday unveiled its first certifications of products for compliance with the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) specification.

Dell unveils smarter switches
Apr. 29, 2003
Dell Monday continued its slow-but-steady march into enterprise networking, unveiling three products that add advanced features for scalability, management and multimedia support.