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Top 5 Networking Innovations

Top 5 Networking Innovations. David Strom Technology Editor, VARBusiness XChange October 2003. Are you an iPod or a BlackBerry?. Top two innovations of the past year(s) Both exemplify trends towards mobile computing Both have become platforms for add-ons and enhancements

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Top 5 Networking Innovations

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  1. Top 5 Networking Innovations David Strom Technology Editor, VARBusiness XChange October 2003

  2. Are you an iPod or a BlackBerry? • Top two innovations of the past year(s) • Both exemplify trends towards mobile computing • Both have become platforms for add-ons and enhancements • Both have branched out beyond their initial focus (music and email)

  3. Products you should watch • Lantronix XPort • Symantec Deep Sight Analysis • Vonage IP Phones • IBM eServer Blade Center • Trapeze Wireless Management • HP ProCurve Switches • PGP Universal

  4. What do all have in common? • Adding infrastructure easily • Expandability and scalability • Pushing ahead on several fronts at once

  5. Some wireless trends • Wireless is far too confusing, especially with rise of G and A standards • Don’t confuse throughput with coverage range and effective speeds • Why is security still be ignored by most of your customers?

  6. Some infrastructure trends • High end and low end networks getting all the attention: it’s the middle child that is the most needy! • 10 Gigabit Ethernet coming • But 10BaseT-only solutions still around • Few companies can afford wholesale upgrades and more migration products and services will be required

  7. Some email trends • Secure email still just a hope, not a practice • Spam is beyond being bothersome • Anti-virus is essential on both corporate servers and laptops • Still an active arena for VARs

  8. Lantronix XPort • Embedded Web server in small form factor • Simple but elegant way to transform existing serial comms to the Web • Reduce time to market for OEMs and ISVs

  9. Symantec Deep Sight Analysis • Early warning program for network attacks and vulnerabilities • It’s like having a control center staff at your beck and call • Two sets of services: one for internal equipment and one for external • Customized reports are a bit difficult

  10. Vonage IP Phones • So simple you will be looking around for something to do • Fully featured: call waiting, caller ID, voicemail • Self-service Web that the Baby Bells could never imagine • One monthly fee for virtually unlimited calling

  11. IBM eServer Blade Center • Twice the density (84 2-way servers), half the price • Everything is hot-swappable, including networking connections, KVM modules, and power supplies • Scalable, manageable, the core of IBM’s on demand vision

  12. Trapeze Wireless Management • Figure out coverage areas inside buildings • Gives you radio properties and ties location of your access points to your floorplan • Solves roaming problem • Solves security problem

  13. HP ProCurve Switches • Fastest growing switch vendor • Cheapest, most manageable gigabit products • 4100: Buy x blades, chassis comes free • 2824: 24 Managed Gig. ports for $2500 • Allows incremental improvement to the edge

  14. PGP Universal • Possibly the most interesting secure email product to come along in the last few years • Offloads PKI management to machines, not people • Works just on Linux and POP right now • Won my “editors choice” last night at Tech Innovators dinner

  15. Our panel • Jeff Williams, Belkin • Dan Glessner, Trend Micro • Bobbi Frioli, Clearswift

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