New router algorithm offers hope for old routers
By providing route or link-state updates only to routers that need the information, networks are no longer limited by the oldest, slowest routers that make other routers wait while they process the data and recalculate path tables. Read more...

IPv6 adoption moving at glacial pace

New exploit poisons patched DNS servers, claims researcher

First responders get more emergency communications options

Kaminsky: Many ways to attack with DNS

West Virginia takes leap into IP-based emergency communications

Firewall vendors scramble to fix problem with DNS patch

With DNS flaw now public, attack code imminent

Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident

Comcast pitches IPv6 strategy to standards body

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WAN optimization: Better than a 'real' upgrade?
With more companies consolidating data centers, it's becoming crucial to address bandwidth and latency issues -- and the WAN optimization technologies of compression, caching and de-duplication can boost performance without actually increasing the speed of the network.

What are critical issues with VoIP service?
Here's the scoop on SIP interoperability and trunking, service providers' transition from TDM to VoIP, security concerns, cost savings, who should have control of the systems and more.

Opinion: Apple's unforgivable DNS delay
Apple was the last -- the very last -- major vendor to address the DNS cache-poisoning vulnerability, with a patch expected Friday. John C. Welch asks how the company could have gotten it so wrong, and whether it understands the damage the lag has done to its reputation among IT pros.

Review: Cisco Nexus 5000 bridges the network gap
This new switch is among first to handle the new Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol and promises to make consolidating FC and Ethernet traffic as easy and reliable as bringing together Ethernet connections with different speeds on the same switch.

FAQ: The DNS bug and you
Are you at risk from the big DNS cache-poisoning vulnerability? If so, what do you do about it? We tackle those questions and a few others in our FAQ.

NATs necessary for IPv6, says IETF chair
The chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force explains why network address translations are being developed for IPv6 even though it was supposed to eliminate the need for them on the Internet.

We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
U.S. government's expected announcement that its systems are compatible with IPv6 is a major milestone in the upcoming transformation to the next-generation Internet.

Four cool network optimization start-ups
Here's a look at some newcomers to the crowded application acceleration and WAN optimization market that are developing additional functionality and addressing new problems.

FAQ: Office 14 and Microsoft's support for ODF
Microsoft won't be supporting the newest ISO-approved version of Office Open XML until Office 14 is released -- most likely well over a year from now. Eric Lai delves into the situation.

Review: Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway and Celestix VPN appliance
We take a look at the functionality and effectiveness of the IAG paired with the Celestix WSA4000 SSL VPN Appliance.

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Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

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