Stories by Howard Solomon

Canada unveils latest lawful Internet access law

The Canadian government has introduced its long-awaited legislation giving police new powers to get Internet and wireless subscriber information without a warrant and requiring telecommunications providers to have equipment for intercepting communications.

'Big' WLAN announcement coming soon, says HP exec

Hewlett-Packard Co. will shortly make a significant move around its wireless LAN products, an executive has promised Canadians reporters.

Polycom lures CTO from Cisco in exec shakeup

Five months after taking control of unified communications equipment maker Polycom Inc., CEO and president Andy Miller has overhauled the company's executive.

Mitel Networks CEO to leave post

After just over nine years at the helm of Mitel Networks Inc., Don Smith is leaving as chief executive officer of the unified communications applications developer to sit on the board directors.

Unified communications war will heat up in 2009

The unified communications war between Microsoft and IBM has so far been pretty one-sided, with the giant from Redmond having the publicity edge over Big Blue.

Another way of monitoring

Running a network without monitoring it is like playing with fire: Sooner or later you're bound to get burned.

Be indispensible to your company

For a young IT employee, challenging company practices can take a lot of nerve. That's especially true if the company is a corporate giant like General Motors. But Phil Edholm did that early in his career and rode it to become an international networking leader with a bandwidth law named after him.

Cautious about 802.11n

It's no secret that enterprises are wild about mobility - just check soaring sales of smartphones and laptops.

IP video surveillance from March Networks, Cisco

As video surveillance turns increasingly to IP-based systems, more companies are announcing new products to deal with the technology.

Racing towards 10Gigabit Ethernet

A university data centre may not seem the place to adopt leading edge technology, given that publicly-funded institutes are chronically short of money.

The battle for the data centre

Last month Cisco Systems unveiled its future. It's merely a big switch, but if some industry analysts are to be believed, it's also the first shot in a war to control the data centre.

Nortel partners testing 40Gbps-plus technology on existing infrastructure

At at time when carriers are just swallowing 10 Gigabit per second technology, Nortel Networks says will soon let them significantly up their network speeds without ripping apart their fibre infrastructure.

The knock on NAC

Three years ago, network access control was the big buzzword in security.