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The real issues behind the 'Net neutrality debate

2006-06-16T11:33:59-05:00

Dear Vorticians, The issue of 'Net neutrality has been in the news of late, as Congress looks to revamp the nation's communications laws - with a primary focus on making it easier for the big telcos to offer television services...

When it comes to Vonage - I told you so!

2006-06-01T15:29:04-05:00

Dear Vorticians, I rarely say "I told you so" and there's a good reason why. It's because I'm rarely right on the money. But when it came to Vonage's initial public offering last week, and the stock's subsequent performance, well...

Help to shape the new Security Standard conference

2006-05-25T18:22:01-05:00

Dear Vorticians, Having wrapped up our discussion on network access control, but being still in a security frame of mind, I wanted to give you a heads up on a new project I'm working on - a project about which...

Readers have the last say on network access control

2006-05-19T14:31:32-05:00

Dear Vorticians, Over the past weeks, as I've explored different angles of the network access control market, I've received quite a bit of correspondence that I just haven't had the space to accommodate. (You know how we writers can just...

Extreme, Foundry and Juniper leaders speak on access control

2006-05-04T20:05:57-05:00

Dear Vorticians, This week I took to the halls at Interop in Las Vegas, where I had the opportunity to talk with a number of senior executives and customers about network access control - a major topic at the network...

What Microsoft's NAP means for the security market

2006-04-28T14:09:52-05:00

Dear Vorticians, For Microsoft, it is very good to be king and it makes all the sense in the world to build a network access control scheme that takes advantage of all your subjects - the operating systems that dominate...

What can Juniper learn from Enterasys in network access control?

2006-04-21T14:09:57-05:00

Dear Vorticians, Last week I went into some depth about Cisco's strategy in the area of network access control, which I believe is one of the more important technology and market battles shaping up for the coming decade. I find...

What's at stake for Cisco in network access control

2006-04-14T15:59:13-05:00

Dear Vorticians, Let me start by saying I was wrong. (Save this and savor it.) In last week's piece beginning my discussion on network access control, I stated that Check Point was not a member of Cisco's Network Admission Control...

The battle for network access control

2006-04-07T12:36:37-05:00

Dear Vorticians, One of the more interesting 'battles' in the IT industry today is unfolding on the landscape of network access control. I put quotation marks around the word 'battle' because in this fight there is not only the customary...

Why one reader says there will be no "Intel Inside" of networking

2006-03-31T09:16:24-05:00

Dear Vorticians, A couple of entries back, I wrote about a company called Bivio, which is building what it claims is a general-purpose processor for network gear that would free developers to focus on value-added capabilitiies in software rather than...

Top security pros talk about what's really worrying them

2006-03-26T11:22:15-05:00

Dear Vorticians, A couple of weeks back, I had the pleasure of moderating a roundtable discussion among chief information security officers (CISO) that was organized by the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), which is a consortium of universities, research...

The 'Intel Inside' of networking?

2006-03-17T18:29:26-05:00

Dear Vorticians, No, you didn't miss last week's Vortex Digest. I didn't send one. My apology. On the Vortex Blog, I've updated a couple of stories that generated a great deal of response from you. The first was my column...

Setbacks for Google and Comcast

2006-03-15T17:35:49-05:00

As Onion columnist Jim "The Cruise" Anchower would say, "Hola amigos. I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya." Sorry about that. Too many things on the proverbial plate - and, if I might inquire, is...

The open source juggernaut keeps rolling along

2006-03-03T09:33:11-05:00

"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." Aristotle Dear Vorticians, Over the past few years, the amazing story that is open source software has largely been obscured by all the talk about Linux v. Windows. As much fun...

Comcast responds to my open letter to CEO Brian Roberts

2006-02-26T11:29:22-05:00

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." Charles Dana In my last note, I shared an open letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts on the occasion of Comcast once...

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