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PHOTO (COLOR): pexels-photo-5453808 The journey from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to the discovery of the vaccine has certainly been a strange and winding road. Cloud-based contact centers can be set up quickly by health-care providers to handle the influx of inquiries that are expected during vaccine rollout. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on the use of IPsonar, a network discovery tool used by Smith Group PLC for managing the company's network, resulting from a merger. Smiths Group, a London based worldwide organization deals in aerospace systems, medical devices, detection systems, mechanical seals and interconnect products. Smiths Group comprised two holding companies — TI Group PLC and Smiths Industries PLC. In December 2000, the two merged, resulting in a corporate culture clash between the respective IT groups. The Smiths Group IT department surveyed the company's global business units. The department discovered that the merged organization bought WAN services or data connectivity from practically every carrier in the world. That practice meant little to no standardization, which translated into confusion. The company found an answer in a press release from Lumeta Corp., of Somerset, New Jersey, the maker of IPsonar — a network discovery tool that can troll worldwide enterprise networks looking for unseen routes, routers, hosts, servers, wireless access points and errant connections. IPsonar has been transformed from a service-only security audit to a commoditized product with general improvements to its overall discovery capabilities. Smiths Group found that its network covers 390 sites and 20,000 devices, or about 1.5 Class A address ranges. Although powerful, IPsonar doesn't have all the answers. It can reach only nodes that it can legitimately route to. It can provide clues, but final answers take human detective work.

"eWeek" labs advises every enterprise that is considering deployment of a wireless network or maintaining an existing one to seriously consider investing in a wireless intrusion detection system. A wide variety of these products stands ready to help identify and troubleshoot security and performance issues related to wireless technology. However, based on "eWeek" tests of a range of these solutions, researchers believe companies should carefully assess their wireless security needs because their existing infrastructure devices may already fulfill them. Wireless IDS solutions range from handheld products that are designed for on the spot troubleshooting at a point in time, to capabilities integrated into existing access points and managing switches, to distributed fleets of sensors that provide round the clock coverage. In tests, they have found that defensive overlay networks, such as those from AirMagnet Inc., AirDefense Inc. and Network Chemistry Inc., provide best-of-breed capabilities.

Libraries full of bleeding-edge research have paved grids' way, developing parallel processing schemes to solve exotic and high-value problems. Today's confluence of commodity components, burgeoning bandwidth and open-source systems software fills in the rest of the picture. Taken together, they make the enterprise case for grid computing, which is the connection of heterogeneous computing nodes using self-administering software that makes the nodes function as a single virtual system. Far from requiring a wave of underpaid graduate students to assemble over a period of months, a computer grid, can now be deployed on enterprise time scales with affordable human resources. INSET: What makes a grid?.

Looks at a three part series which focuses on the threats to digital personae in a net-worked world which can ruin lives, by Inter@ctive Week. Reference to Bronti Kelly's experience with digital personae; Indication that online databases are now dedicated to revealing personal information about ordinary citizens; Details on digital personae.

At DockerCon 19, Docker Inc announces the latest release of its flagship commercial platform in a bid to help make container development, deployment and management easier for enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the usage of the JackBe Presto Enterprise Server software by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to bring together strategic information from geographic and mapping data. It notes that mashup is generally understood to be a Web application that combines information from multiple sources to create a single new information. It was said that the initial development of JackBe software at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) project inspired DISA to deploy it across the Department of Defense. Furthermore, with the help of JackBe enterprise mashup tools, DISA's strategic Watch brings together data from the variety of sources to enable the military to respond should a domestic crisis occurs.

The article focuses on the issue concerning the speed of the Internet connections of Comcast Corp., where some users have discovered that their connections were not that fast particularly when running certain applications the U.S. It appears that Comcast is intentionally applying technology to slow down services as diverse as BitTorrent and Lotus Notes over its networks. On the other hand, it notes that the company has provided network-neutrality advocates with a perfect argument for their cause.

The article discusses the impact of integrating advanced and unified communications systems on business operations in the U.S. According to the author, the advancement of communication technology provides bigger problem and challenges on how to manage the overflowing of information as well as the burden it creates on customers wherein some information are wasted. Unified communication (UM) provide a real-time communication process as well as how it will be delivered to the proper receiver, while unified messaging involves messages collection from different sources in a consistent retrieval approach. In addition, UC/UM provides benefits to customers, including streamlining of data deliver, higher investment return and improved comfort in the utilization of the systems.

The article presents information on the Android mobile phone platform. Accordingly, Android is an open source mobile phone platform which is based on the Linux operating system. In addition, android has its browser interface, middleware, and other applications. The chief executive officer of Google, Eric Schmidt, states that the android platform is available under the liberal open-source license given to mobile operators. Schmidt also states that the android would be the perfect platform for a Google phone.

The article features Shunra Software Ltd.'s Virtual Enterprise (VE) 4.5, a powerful network simulation solution that creates an exact model of any production environment. This includes the network, remote locations, and the number and distribution of local and remote end-users. With Shunra VE, one can test the functionality, performance, scalability and robustness of any application or network infrastructure under current and future real-world conditions. VE 4.5 also provides new capabilities for simulating the network conditions characteristic of wireless clients and can simulate different conditions for endpoint machines.

The article focuses on WAN acceleration technology. There are many business cases and scenarios in which WAN acceleration products could be extremely beneficial. In the next few years, it is expected that WAN technology will become widely accepted. Application protocols and common file sharing function well in LAN environments. But when clients try to access large files and attachments over a WAN link, they slow to a crawl. A number of different technologies to optimize the speed of data transfers over a WAN is used by WAN acceleration products. WAN acceleration products limit the number of acknowledgment packets sent, which substantially minimizes network latency. Riverbed and Blue Coat units are some of the WAN acceleration appliances that are deployed at the primary data center. A data store that identifies fragments of data within a live data stream is contained in each WAN acceleration appliance.

The article discusses developments in tools for data protection. The tests of Vontu Inc.'s Vontu 6.0 suite show that much more complex policies can be created and enforced. More sophisticated methods to positively identify protected data employ copies of data against which all outgoing data transmissions are compared. Data protection tools can be utilized as a competitive differentiator. They may also reduce audit friction. A data protection tool can even display a warning message, log a note that an inappropriate use of data was blocked and display a report that documents all these actions.

The article reviews the computer network and systems management platform software GroundWork Monitor Professional 4.5 from Ground-Work Open Source Solutions.

This article reports that mobile applications are the fastest-growing opportunity and challenge for developers, who are finally getting both the tools they need and the consensus on good practice that liberates them to do their best work. A mobile user should not be envisioned as merely a Wi-Fi-enabled, laptop-carrying knowledge worker in a conference room or a coffee shop. Rather, the mobile user requires applications designed for diverse mobility demands in both internal and external respects. Internally, the mobile application must deal gracefully with intermittent connectivity and with limited and sometimes varying bandwidth. As mobile devices get smaller, they are more easily lost or stolen, making it all the more important to authenticate the user rather than authenticating the device with technologies such as stored passwords or browser cookies. Back-end costs could quickly get out of control as developers strive to support a diversity of mobile experiences, all too easily leading to multiple and largely redundant logic paths and data stores.

The article focuses on the Indiana State Lottery, the Indianapolis-based agency struck a deal with Cole Systems Associates Inc., a systems integrator in New York, to install a real-time data distribution system and outfit sales staff with tablet PCs to access the data. Cole Systems designed a straightforward system: a Microsoft Corp. SQL server housed at lottery headquarters that pulls sales data as needed from the agency's main computer, an IBM AS/400. The Microsoft SQL server runs Cole's Order-Pad Enterprise application, which manages queries from sales agents and supplies them with the data they need in real time. Sales agents make their queries through an OrderPad client application on their tablet or a desktop PC if they happen to be at a lottery office. According to Adam Perlow, Cole's vice president for technology, the linchpin of the system was the ability to achieve timely downloads even with low bandwidth or poor connections. Lottery agents might tap into the database under all sorts of conditions: from a cellular phone while sitting in a car, via dial-up while eating breakfast or from a broadband connection at the office.

This article focuses on digital media and content. More and more businesses are relying heavily on digital media and content for describing or promoting their products or they are touting digital media as a valuable product on its own. However, many of these companies have not yet taken steps to centrally manage and track their digital assets. IT managers usually have two choices when it comes to selecting a digital asset management solution: graphics oriented solutions that provide strong client capabilities but lack central management, tagging and enterprise collaboration features, or enterprise digital asset managers that handle multiple content types and have strong authentication, tracking and workflow but lack rich-client interfaces. Cumulus 6.5, released last month by Canto Software Inc., attempts to bridge this gap. Coming from a Macintosh oriented graphics background, Canto's Cumulus 6.5 provides all the media manipulation and cataloging features that graphics-oriented users could want.

This article focuses on problems regarding network-interface-card (NIC). NIC drivers can be a drag on performance and can even cause system crashes. But one small testing vendor is working to expose the problems and hold vendors accountable for the performance of their hardware and drivers. A number of factors have kept NIC performance issues on the back burner. At the desktop, the performance hit has not generally been felt. To date, network-interface-card issues have been mostly an inconvenience. But the movement toward faster technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet, coupled with the increasing use of more latency-sensitive applications.

Evaluates Tungsten T5 handheld computer from PalmOne Inc. Features of the product; Compatibility of the product with other wireless networks; Cost of the product.

With this month’s approval by the federal communications commission of an Ultra-Wideband chip set, device designers and users can enjoy new options for robust, high-bandwidth wireless connections with minimal power consumption. Freescale’s announcement calls the XS110 the first FCC-approved UWB chip set. This is not strictly correct--a chip set from Time Domain Corp., of Huntsville, Alaska, was certified in September 2002. However, Time Domain’s offerings have so far focused on data rates of less than 10M bps, with applications in high-reliability communications and high-resolution radar and other somewhat-exotic realms. UBD Radio Technology is so different from prevailing radio practice that it almost seems like an entirely new engineering discipline. Conventional radio techniques treat bands of radio frequencies as almost the equivalent of real estate. To put this in terms of nightscapes and flashlights, every UWB user has the same kind of whitelight flashlight, but each is assigned a different distinctive timing pattern to use with a blinker switch--and is given a pair of glasses whose lenses can switch between being opaque or transparent, controlled by the same coded pattern.

This article focuses on bandwidth upgrading by network operators at Royal Carribean Cruise Line. The network operators at Royal Caribbean Cruise Line were planning to distribute more application traffic across the fleet of 25 ships' satellite frame relay links, but existing traffic was already choking on the 128 Kbps to 192 Kbps service. With two months to come up with a recommendation, network operators learned about another alternative — WAN optimization. They turned to upstart Peribit Networks Inc., of Santa Clara, California, to see if its Sequence Reducer appliances could help them get more from their existing links and relieve the congestion that caused ship crew members to complain about response times. The feedback from IT staff on board and the Peribit Sequence Reducer's performance reports showed a marked improvement. According to Felipe Mendoza, a senior network planning analyst at the cruise lines, the traffic on the links reduced by a 10-1 ratio. The implementation, which included two Peribit SR-50s and an SR-20 on each ship, now extends to a total of 28 ships, as well as two private island resorts owned by Royal Caribbean. It is further planning to distribute even more applications across its ship-to-shore links and this time it will have to upgrade its frame relay links.

A major health insurance company is providing PC's and networked handheld computers to thousands of doctors, hoping to cut down on paperwork and prescription error. Launched last month, Well Point Health Networks Inc.'s $40 million program includes 19,000 physicians in California, Missouri, Georgia and Wisconsin. The majority belong to Well-Point's network through Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. An additional 170,000 doctors will be able to buy the equipment at a reduced rate, WellPoint officials said. The Prescription Improvement Package includes Dell Inc.'s Axim Pocket PC hand-held computer, a wireless LAN access point from Cisco Systems Inc. and a year-long subscription to an electronic prescription service. Doctors send the prescription information through a wireless connection from the Axim to the access point, which connects to the Internet. Microsoft Corp. and its partners will supply the necessary software, which will include drug-interaction information. Doctors can choose to download the information wirelessly or through synchronizing when the device is in its cradle.

Reports on the status of the bandwidth industry in the U.S. in 2001. Plan of WorldCom to acquire Digex that require selling of Intermedia Communications' network assets; Recommendation for vendors that sell hardware to optimize bandwidth use; Reasons for financial risks in the bandwidth business.

Focuses on pen scanners or digital highlighters. Prediction on the market for the devices; Information on WizCom Technologies' QuickLink pen; Pens from C Technologies.

Presents an overview of significant developments and trends within the computer industry for the year 1993. Industry players' role in the paradigm shift; Management reshuffle at IBM; Corporate moves toward digital convergence; IBM's and Microsoft's promotion of their respective 32-bit platforms; Competition within the microprocessor market; Software suites from Microsoft and Lotus; Notebooks from Apple and IBM; More.

Reports on the plan of NorthPoint Communications Inc., a data network operator, to offer two-way digital service. Basis of the company's offering; How NorthPoint plans to sell the service; Importance of the service to Internet service providers.

Details the deployment of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) by telephone companies in the United States. GTE Telephone and US West as the first two companies to offer ADSL; Two distinct camps of ADSL deployment; Corporations as the first customers of this service; Estimates on how many existing lines can be served by ADSL; Challenges in the ADSL-based data service. INSET: ISPs beating telcos to high-speed punch, by C.W..

In this article, the author discusses the components of unified communications system. He found that unified communications system utilizes presence and local information and combine it with a built-in understanding of capabilities of every network-attached communications session to utilize the best input channel. He also determined that the said system's disintermediation would open up many avenues to better use the resources.

The article provides information on 802.11n, a wireless communication system that can operate in either the 2.4gegahertz (GHz) or 5GHz band. A key component of 802.11n is the multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) application, which uses spatial multiplexing to simultaneously transmit chains of information at the same time on the same channel without interference or dropouts. It emphasizes that the most common antenna configurations for 802.11n are either 3-by-3 or 2-by-3 transmit/receive chains. To ensure the best levels of compatibility for 802.11n, a certified wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) system must be used.

The author talks on the study conducted by the Solutions Research Group company wherein majority of Americans are fixated, obsessed with being connected at all times. The research shows that 68 percent of Americans feel anxious when they are not connected. They feel disorientation and nervousness when they are deprived of Internet or wireless for a period of time and it affects all age groups. The study also gave ridiculous embarrassing data, such as 63 percent of BlackBerry users admitted they have sent a message from the bathroom.

The author reflects on the implementation of municipal wireless communication systems in the U.S. He observes that municipalities that are starting to implement the system has been doing it for the wrong reasons. Moreover, he claims that many municipal projects end up costing taxpayers but providing few services. He also cites the cities that have successfully implemented the system.

The author presents a satirical perspective on the computer industry. He mentioned that Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has acquired 1 million shares of P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc. stock as an investment to further fuel its charitable work. He commented that the first iPhone did not hit the streets and the Apple Inc. executives are already talking a global model for iPhones.

The article examines the Digital Media Manager and Digital Media Player developed by Cisco Systems Inc. to improve its growing digital signage market. According to Cisco, digital signage is an emerging technology which translates to about a billion dollar business opportunity in five or seven years. An analyst with IDC, Mellisa Webster explained that Cisco's Digital Signage system is considered to be one of the first plug-and-play systems available from a large manufacturer wherein it enables companies to publish, play back and manage digital media on network of digital plasma

The article presents information on new multicore processors for mobile devices. These processors will enhance the performance and battery life of laptops. Intel Corp. will launch its mobile platform called Centrino Pro in 2007, which will increase the processing power and battery life. Centrino Pro will introduce 802.11n wireless networking capabilities. There will also be increase in wireless broadband services. Intel will integrate its High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) wireless technology into the Centrino Pro platform. HSDPA is an asymmetric data transmission technique with an increased capacity. Mobile phone carriers are building their 3G networks, due to which there will be an increase in mobile devices with HSDPA.

The article discusses the significance of network traffic source authentication with reference to the network technology used by Prospect Heights, Illinois-based Alibi Network. Network integrity seems to be impossible, obscure and trivial. A new network technology's implementation is usable only by experts. Network traffic source authentication has become an important IT challenge these days.

The article reports that the Identity Governance Framework (IGF) standard has been released by Oracle Corp. to help companies to handle sensitive identity-related data. If the identity-related data is stored by the businesses in more centralized repositories rather than their IT systems and enterprise applications, then the data loss or its mishandling could be minimized. Other data governance policies could be complemented by IGF standards. The flow of sensitive identity-related employee, customer and partner data across heterogeneous applications could be handled effectively by using IGF standards.

The article offers information on several worldwide solution companies in the U.S. Intel Corp., world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products, announces that its ramp desktop performance chip Core 2 Duo will be experiencing operational crisis due to brand confusion and tight chip inventories. On the other hand, Sprint Nextel, global provider of voice, data and Internet services, will build a new technology platform called WiMax network with the help of Intel Corp., Samsung and Motorola.

The article reports on the integration of the new Lotus Sametime instant messaging platform from International Business Machines Inc., (IBM) to Linux. The instant messaging platform will run both on the desktop and server of Linux. This will allow users of Linux to run the platform on both the desktop and server in a pure Linux environment. The action is encouraged by the increasing customer requests. The announcement of the integration will be on the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which will be held on August 14 to 17, 2006 in San Francisco.

The article reflects on Memory Spot, Hewlett-Packard's new wireless data chip. It cites that Memory Spot represents a data silo in which every separate device holds its own distinct collection of data and its wireless link requires the probe to be within about a millimeter of the integral antenna. Other features and applications of the product are also discussed.

The article evaluates WAN acceleration systems. The author used 1U Ring's Network Nightmare WAN simulator to control the test environment. One of the key factors to look for in the products under test is the ability to increase the efficiency of third-party replication solutions. This ability will be measured using Double-Take replication software to mirror data volumes across the simulated WAN. The author will monitor the completion times for replication jobs, as well as the total bandwidth savings provided by each WAN acceleration solution.

The article presents a technical analysis of two products that are designed not only to keep data protected but also to minimize recovery time. The WAN replication in Double-Take 4.4 and bare-metal restore in Acronis True Image 9.1 are not based on new technologies. However the enhancements made by Double-Take Software and Acronis, have greatly enhanced the products' value. Double-Take has added application-tuned replication, while Acronis has added the ability to restore to heterogeneous machines. Acronis True Image 9.1, storing backups on hard-drive-based systems with the ability to mount images in read-only model has greatly accelerated the speed with which the user can get data back to a client. In addition, imaging has progressed to the point that IT managers can now move an image from one machine to another with entirely different hardware.

The article presents the salient features of Microsoft Corp.'s Vista wireless networking. It is too easy set up a wireless connection through Vista though it may take sometime to get used to it. The author tested Vista on a Hewlett-Packard Compaq nc6320, which has the new version of Intel's Centrino chip set with the 3945ABG wireless adapter. Vista has the driver also with the base install. Vista presents a Connect to a Network applet that coalesces wireless, dialup and VPN connections into a single interface unlike the XP's Choose a Wireless Network system tray applet. One has the freedom to select from among the detected wireless networks either for an ad hoc or a regular wireless network. One could manually enter the network name, select the security type, choose the cipher, and enter the security key for WEP or WPA/WPA2 Personal through connection creation screen.

The article informs that companies implementing point-to-point wireless solutions should consider the flexibility of the technology as well as its vendor. Although technically a broadband wireless solution rather than a point-to-point solution, WiMax is the 800-pound gorilla in the room where outdoor wireless is concerned. According to Jeff Thompson, CEO of pre-WiMax service provider TowerStream, instead of having a point-to-point architecture among all their buildings, customers are getting one large connection to the Internet at headquarters, and all their smaller offices get maybe a half-megabit connection with TowerStream and VPNs, which gives them even more diversity. Thomson says that there may be some new bands which may be available for future use as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is to rule on whether 50MHz can be made available for WiMax use in the 3650MHz band. A point-to-point outdoor wireless solution which is more analogous to free space optics technology is an up-and-comer called Millimeter Wave. It would have greater bandwidth performance and range, with less susceptibility to environmental conditions.

The article focuses on the author's demonstration of the computer software Vontu 6.0 by Vontu Inc. With four different components, namely, Monitor, Prevent, Discover and Protect, the application monitors and manages data in motion and at rest. A tight control is provided by the software over sensitive data sent inside and outside the network. When test users attempted to send protected data, Vontu 6.0 alerted the author by monitoring a wide sweep of common network protocols and messaging systems, along with file shares. According to the author, in order to identify what information must be tracked, IT managers should work closely with legal and auditing professionals before implementing a data-protection tool like Vontu. During the tests, the author thought of the book "Star Wars." The fictitious character in the book Darth Vader would have known how the Death Star plans had been transferred to the rebel ship if he had access to a Vontu system.

The article reports on Packeteer's release of its new software for its PacketShaper appliance that accelerates applications that use TCP and HTTP and boosts the performance and visibility of voice and video over IP. Version 8.0 of the PacketShaper appliance's software gives an edge to how applications use network bandwidth as well as the application-layer quality of service prioritization. Arun DeSouza, manager of service assurance at Inergy Automotive Systems in Troy, Michigan, says that they should need to know what to control and they can prioritize because they can see what is going on. The Xpress TCP software module connives with TCP communications by localizing acknowledgment of packets received. The release adds the ability to measure jitter, delay and packet loss for real-time traffic and provides reporting. Cisco's ACE may not be ready to be published for many enterprises for it is a totally new software platform.

The article focuses on the new trend of computer integration. The author describes the advertisement of the latest computer software released by Microsoft Corp. called the Origami. The device is somehow related to the recent Ultra Mobile PC campaign. The author identifies two approaches of PC integration: monolith and cloud. A monolith involves the creation of many things with one object and is necessary when usage models are taking shape, when hardware is expensive, and standards have yet to emerge. Clouds become more appealing as technologies evolve and mature. Finally, the author points out that it does not make the computer newer if it was done using the old approaches.

The article reports on the position of the U.S. in the global Internet excellence standings. Sadly, the U.S. position in the standings is not good, with statistics showing that it ranks staggeringly distant 25th in broadband coverage, far below South Korea and Japan at the top. Seventy-five percent of South Korean homes have access to broadband, compared with only 20 percent of the U.S. homes. Further, the average South Korean bandwidth is 20M bps, compared with 2M bps in the U.S. Another standard of Internet excellence, IPvG, is lagging behind in the U.S., the subject of incremental, piecemeal adoption. Maybe it is time to consider some serious incentives for ISPs that deliver higher bandwidth to customers, as well as for customers that purchase it. There is a stern need to wake up to the realization that the consequences of becoming an Internet also-ran are also grave in terms of the ability of the country's businesses to compete and its citizens to prosper. The consequences of staying behind could be stark.

The article presents information on the technological innovations made in server chips by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc. The two chip maker companies are preparing to roll out a new generation of chips. The advantage of these chips is that they will deliver significant performance gains for the crucial servers that power enterprise networks. This will also result in continuing competition between the two companies. Machines containing AMD's Opteron chip have gained acceptance among businesses. One of its servers has seen intense competition and so Intel has upgraded its server processors and rolled out new platforms to support them. The company is also planning to introduce Bensley, a higher-performing processor with greater memory bandwidth. Also included in Intel's plan is its virtualization, I/O acceleration and management technologies with the platform. Not far behind Intel, AMD is working to roll out a new line of Opterons at midyear. According to Dean McCarron, an analyst at Mercury Research, in Cave Creek, Arizona, It is good to see that both companies are trying to make revisions to their product offerings that keep them competitive.

The article highlights the launch of new semiconductor switches by Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. in an effort to give enterprises a possible alternative to the semiconductor switches of Cisco Systems Inc. The four Ethernet Layer 3 switches of the HP incorporate a range of hardware-embedded functions, Gigabit Ethernet optimized performance and competitive pricing. Two of the switches-the ProCurve 5400 chassis family and the ProCurve 3500 stackable line of the HP are built on the same HP application specific integrated circuits (ASIC). HP officials said that the ProVision ASICs enable wire-speed performance at Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet speeds and at the same time enable power over Ethernet on every port-without exacting a high premium in price. HP officials asserted that the ProCurve 5400 and 3500 deliver seven to 10 times more efficient than Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 3750 switches of Cisco. HP added the ProCurve 4200 edge switch for customers targeting shorter-term deployments. The new switches are due between March and the summer of the year 2006.

This article presents information about Dirk Meyer, who was named as the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Earlier, he was the president and COO of the company's microprocessor business. It is informed that Dirk has played significant role in the company's rise to the position of technology and innovation leader in the microprocessor industry. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is the market leader in its arena.