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Because client-server applications require native-rate local area network connectivity--typically Ethernet (10 Mb/s) or token ring (4 Mb/s or 16 Mb/s)--these networked applications until now were restricted to local areas that […]

Users of local area network (LAN) interconnection have decided that public network service providers are best equipped to offer relatively less costly and more efficient services. These carriers use frame relay as their data communications systems to take advantage of its compatibility and workability with LAN networking. The popularity of frame relay also emerges from the shift away from systems network architecture to client server network structure., Public network carriers are using frame relay's success and their own expertise in network management to gain market share. When City National Bank of Charleston, W.Va., decided to switch from [...]

* Listen: That new sound is the information dialtone. Carriers will be selling LAN services over the public telephone network, but what will they cost, and how well will they […]

There is an old expression about how quickly a secret can spread. If you tell a secret to two people, and they tell two people and so on. Before you [...]

A company can help determine whether it should convert its private line network to a public frame relay service on the basis of three factors. These factors are the network's geographic dispersion, the connectivity requirements and the characteristics of network traffic. Public frame relay service had only 189 corporate customers at the end of 1992. Part of the reason for this was the confusion over pricing. However, customers' increased awareness of the economic drivers of frame relay will lead over 2,400 firms to subscribe by 1996., Private line networks may qualify for frame relay if they meet three rules of thumb. With all the confusion surrounding pricing, it is no wonder that the number of customers [...]

Frame Relay Protocols, Standards and Controversies As LAN interconnection and other bursty data communication applications gain popularity, frame relay services and interfaces are getting a tremendous amount of attention, not [...]

Do you know the way to SMDS? The Bell operating companies know exactly what their customers want: to be able to interconnect their local area networks (LANs) and transfer digital […]

A decade ago, your company had to lease a private phone line to connect its mainframe computer with the terminals and computers at its branch offices. Branch employees probably used […]

Going national with Time Warner.... A vast, sparsely populated home territory is usually cited as a problem for U S West. But its data unit, the newly renamed !nterprise Networking […]

For organizations with multiple sites in downtown business districts, making crosstown connections has always been a challenge. Traditional telephone company 56Kbps and 1.544Mbps digital lines work well in host/terminal environments, […]

European public telecommunication operators (PTOs) are facing two principal challenges in the 1990s: meeting the need for local, in-country, highspeed network service offerings, and satisfying the wider service require* ments […]

In Europe, a solid personal relationship between business partners is paramount. When the Milan division os S.p.A. Michelin Italia decided to build a network, the company put its trust in […]

Dr. Robert Boston, superintendent of the Indian Hill School District in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Indian Hill School Board had a vision--to equip every classroom in the district with a […]

Cisco Systems is expanding its network-security efforts, which to date has focused on wide-area network access points, to the local-area network and the switches that move traffic within most businesses. […]

Michael Wolf, In-Stat Director, Enterprise & Residential Services Local exchange carriers (ILECs) have embarked on a necessary, though risky, strategy to build out fiber over much of their networks to [...]

Copyright [c] 2003 CMP Media LLC Byline: Dave Dubois and Mark Fauber Several technologies are coming together to make Ethernet compelling for metro access. Perhaps the most interesting is the [...]

PALO ALTO - You might think the last thing Frank Robles would want to do is launch another metropolitan Ethernet provider. After all, he saw how brutal that market could […]

In today's fast-paced business environment, carriers face enormous challenges and unprecedented competition. To meet these challenges, carriers need highly efficient, flexible, and scalable systems designed specifically to handle the requirements […]

Cable & Wireless (C&W) and Cisco Systems have teamed to develop managed LAN (local-area network) and WAN (wide-area network) services over a single IP platform. C&W will offer services, branded […]

There's been lots of talk about quality of service in LANs, but unless you're running voice, video or other unforgiving applications, you can probably solve congestion by simply throwing more […]

Network managers might suspect that combining voice and IP on a single pipe could slash telecom charges, but until recently they couldn't be certain. While carriers sell Voice over IP […]

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. - Start-up Neoteris is parlaying Web-browser technology that protects online credit card sales into a simple, secure way for employees and business partners to access your network. Neoteris […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based Storm Telecommunications Ltd has enhanced its existing international Gb Ethernet services with Gb Ethernet links in its metropolitan rings. According to Storm the […]

As the downturn in the high-tech industry continues, fiber-optics manufacturers are stepping up their efforts to corner a larger share of the potentially lucrative business of installing cabling for local-area [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The UK-based IT services company Guardian iT Group has launched a new service called Rapid Relocatable PC LAN. The round-the-clock service offers to supply […]

THE FUTURE OF ENTERprise voice service will be over the LAN, and every major telecom and data hardware vendor has jumped into the fray. Born just a few years ago, […]

HighSpeed Surfing Inc. is helping consumers expand their home or office broadband connections into a local-area network (LAN) without wires. The company's 802.11b wireless device integrates voice, video and data, [...]

Penske Logistics plans to roll out smart wireless terminals to its 4,000-vehicle fleet starting in September. The terminals are intended to help the company quickly capture and send critical delivery […]

CEO Jerry Patrick's bandwidth-on-demand dream leads a telecom revolution The basic idea was simple: Tie all your computers together into an ethernet network, then use fiber-optic cable to connect your […]

SAN FRANCISCO - Metro Ethernet service provider Yipes Communications has been luring enterprise customers in its initial 20 markets with promises of transparently extending their LANs over metropolitan areas. But […]

IT managers signing on with MSPs and other service providers are starting to take those relationships personally, recognizing they're fraught with temptations and much more complicated than a service that […]

HOPING TO SPUR adoption of wireless LAN systems by reducing installation costs and complexity, Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group last week announced a feature for its wireless LAN systems that provides […]

PALO ALTO - When completed this summer, a 'working draft' of the human genome was hailed as a major milestone in the efforts to combat illness and disease by better […]

Feature Story Copy Template v3 TC17Feat0802-01 July 26, 2000 A recent InternetWeek survey of 100 IT/networking managers found that more than 80 percent plan to add more telecommuters to their […]

Insurer Crawford & Co has engaged Vanco to design, install and manage a new wide area network (Wan). The contract is worth £1.8m aver five years. Vanco has integrated the […]

NETSOLVE INC. signs on to proactively monitor and manage the WAN and LAN infrastructure of Viking Freight. NetSolve (www.netsolve.com) provides round-the-clock service to the FedEx subsidiary's 67 nationwide [...]

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance that was announced this week should bring a jolt of life to home power-line networking, a technology once assumed dead. But while the group claims some […]