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Despite some shortcomings, software-based network access control technology that enforces policies on network endpoints is often the first choice of customers who adopt the technology.

McAfee is making it possible for customers to enforce network access policies on unmanaged devices such as laptops owned by visitors or consultants.

After being plagued with project overruns and a scaling back of the final system, the US military's next generation satellite communications network is another step closer to reality, with completion of the payload module for the third and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite.

Frank Brady expects to celebrate a significant milestone in June: His Medical Missions for Children charity will treat its 30,000th child that month.

Arianespace successfully orbited two communications satellites on the weekend including Optus D2 which will provide direct TV broadcast, Internet, telephone and data transmission services for Australia and New Zealand.

The U.S. military plan to test an Internet router in space, in a project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications.

Honiara, we have a problem. A satellite leased by Telecom New Zealand has inexplicably died in the saddle and wiped-out international telecommunications services throughout the South Pacific islands in the process, forcing the Kiwi telco onto emergency back-up systems.

The Boeing Co. is to lease space on a satellite above the Atlantic Ocean, filling a further coverage gap in its Connexion by Boeing in-flight Internet service.

For those of you who don't remember Iridium, its history (barring the past 12 months) has been an impressive disaster. Iridium was launched in 1992 and is a low earth orbiting system. Specifically, there are 66 satellites orbiting the earth at 780 km which provides voice/data coverage at any given time to anyone anywhere on the earth Iridium was initially backed by Motorola to the tune of $US4.4 billion but after all the marketing hoopla, and no customers -- largely because it found too few people willing to pay high prices (as much as $11 per minute) for global phone service as well as using clunky satellite phones -- the satellite company started nose-diving quickly and soon was out of pocket.

For those of you who don't remember Iridium, its history (barring the past 12 months) has been an impressive disaster. Iridium was launched in 1992 and is a low earth orbiting system. Specifically, there are 66 satellites orbiting the earth at 780 km which provides voice/data coverage at any given time to anyone anywhere on the earth Iridium was initially backed by Motorola to the tune of $US4.4 billion but after all the marketing hoopla, and no customers -- largely because it found too few people willing to pay high prices (as much as $11 per minute) for global phone service as well as using clunky satellite phones -- the satellite company started nose-diving quickly and soon was out of pocket.

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