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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
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CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
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This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
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Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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Not the first Ethernet switch in space
This article really needs second sources other than ProCurve marketing literature.
Quoting from a NASA report:
"An excellent example of applications of COTS equipment to space-based network has been accomplished by the Russians. The Russian International Space Station (ISS) service module network consists of the following COTS products:
- Ethernet LAN running 100 Base-TX
- Cabletron SmartSwitch router
- Shielded cat-5 type cable
- 3Com 3C589D, or Intel Pro/100 PCMCIA Ethernet cards"
-- ISS and STS Commercial Off-The-Shelf Router Testing,
Will Ivancic, Terry Bell and Dan Shell, April 2002.
http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/Citations.aspx?id=1749
... so the ProCurve switch joins an existing Ethernet LAN enabled by Cabletron SmartSwitches.
A 10Mbps Ethernet LAN was also flown on UoSAT-12 in 1999 - and that was in a vacuum rather than human-rated atmosphere, so better qualified for the 'first Ethernet in space'.
Repeating press releases isn't good journalism...