 
The network business is fraught with strife. Vendors battle each other for market share, and fight internal fires that threaten to hinder product development, throw strategic directions off course or send revenue spiraling downward. Standards-setters grapple with the best paths to take with specifications, and incumbent carriers lobby hard to squelch advances by their foes. And you've got to keep track of all this, on top of containing technology and management problems within your own department and throughout the company.
That's where we come into play, with our annual examination of key power struggles shaping the network industry.
Cisco vs. world
Cisco is facing new challenges on different fronts, but seems
well-positioned to take them all on.
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The fight for e-trillions
Trouble is brewing over business-to-business e-comm standards.
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IPSec punchfest
From multiple drafts to sparring test labs, power struggles dog this
standard.
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In the way of open access
Giant carriers use the desire for Internet "deregulation" as a pawn in their power struggles.
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The perils of privacy
Net managers who don't forge - and enforce - stringent business-only e-mail and Web usage policies put their companies at risk.
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SAN trap
Ambitious SAN vendors struggle to stem the tide of modest trial implementations and land the big-ticket sales.
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