Stories about: Uunet

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IPv6 allocations: The tide comes in 06 March, 2008 09:35

Last year I discussed the decline in IPv6 address allocations since 2002 and the predicted that the tide would begin to turn. Now that 2007 is behind us, it is worth a look at last year's statistics to see where things stand.
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Nine wireless network companies to watch 10 September, 2007 09:38

New or emerging wireless and mobile companies continue to be a fountain of innovation, as our selection this year shows.
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Killian: Verizon-MCI merger is meeting goals 22 January, 2007 11:11

Verizon Business, an operating unit formed after Verizon Communications acquired MCI, marked its one-year anniversary on Jan.6. The U.S.-based operation expects total revenue to exceed US$20 billion for 2006, leading Verizon Business President John Killian to call it "a very good first year." In a recent interview with Computerworld, Killian talked about the past year, the competition and the future of his business unit.
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Vyatta set to launch open source appliance 03 October, 2006 08:32

As open source router startup Vyatta is scheduled to formally launches its first appliance this week, one early adopter is using the Linux-based gear to replace Cisco technologies.
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VOIP still lags behind in quality, survey says 13 July, 2005 09:32

VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phone systems still lag significantly behind the traditional phone network for reliability and quality, and there are major differences in quality among brands of VOIP service, according to a company that evaluated six providers in the U.S.
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WorldCom unveils new name, services 22 April, 2003 11:54

Despite industry skepticism about WorldCom's future, new data services and a strong reliance on its IP backbone will be at the heart of the carrier's reorganization as it emerges from Chapter 11 proceedings later this year.
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Interview: Utility IT exec to explore Web services 04 December, 2002 10:19

Gene Zimon, CIO and a senior vice president at energy company Nstar Corp. in Boston, has an atypical perspective on network technology. While he currently oversees a statewide network for the utility, which serves 1.3 million residential and business customers across Massachusetts, he also has spent time on the vendor side, most recently at Oracle. This is an edited transcript of Zimon's talk with Bob Brown about Nstar's key IT initiatives, including a move into Web services.
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Amplify.net introduces new security tools 31 October, 2002 08:19

Amplify.net is introducing two appliances that support a firewall, VPN and load balancing for sites with more than one connection to the Internet.
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Major Net backbone attack could be first of many 24 October, 2002 08:11

The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack launched Monday against all 13 of the Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn't mean that more attacks won't follow and succeed where this week's attack failed, according to experts, some of whom feel that the federal government needs to step in to secure the Net infrastructure.
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WorldCom Connection service converges voice, data 10 October, 2002 07:45

WorldCom is offering a new program to sell converged voice and data service to businesses, the company announced Wednesday. The new program, called WorldCom Connection, will consolidate local, long distance and data traffic on WorldCom's global IP (Internet Protocol) network.
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Cisco grabs unused capacity for recovery 08 October, 2002 08:00

Service providers now can always have enough bandwidth in reserve to recover from failures, according to Cisco Systems Inc., which on Monday introduced software designed to deliver on that promise.