Stories about: MCI

SOA (service-oriented architecture) promises enterprises endless advantages: increased code reuse, reduced integration expense, better security, and -- the big payoff -- greater business agility. Whether you achieve those benefits, however, probably has more to do with your policies and procedures than the quality of your code.

Although today's Internet is often credited with creating so much change that society is still racing to catch up, it has also come to be seen as unwieldy, hidebound and problematic -- ripe for revision or replacement. Security issues, spam, slow downloads and the exploding need for URLs are only some of its problems. The Internet is sometimes seen as a victim of its own success, and several initiatives are under way to develop the Internet of the future.

For a year John Stewart has been CSO at Cisco. He's in charge of a team of 60 information security professionals who play a role in IT architecture, policy, audit and incident response to protect an internal user base of about 48,000 employees worldwide. Stewart recently discussed Cisco's risk-management strategy with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer.

Hurricane Katrina literally blew away the telecom infrastructure in New Orleans. Forget about telephone poles and lines going down, BellSouth, the incumbent local exchange carrier, lost 34 central offices, nine of which were destroyed.

A U.S. district court judge is questioning U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approvals of two major telecommunications mergers since late 2005, saying he has "doubts" that the deals were in the public interest.

Tough laws, new codes of practice and improved technology have not stopped the spammers, only made them smarter.

Verizon Business plans to help its customers keep their eyes on the business road by making it easier for them to keep track of their telecommunications services.

Verizon Business announced a hosted instant messaging service Wednesday focused on the needs of business users that includes network security and reliability.

Verizon this week said it expanded the availability of its Ethernet access services in the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and is offering it as an access option for its Private IP MPLS VPN service.

Enterprises can use familiar Ethernet interfaces to tap into Verizon Communications' global network from Europe and Asia following an expansion announced Wednesday by the carrier's Verizon Business unit.

Cisco Systems has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI, to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday.