NAC players prove interop on experimental show net

Product Test and Buyer's Guide This newsletter is sponsored by Network General Ease Application Performance Headaches Four real-world case studies show you how network IT executives are improving performance in Network World's latest Executive Guide, "Perfecting App Performance Management." Also, discover tips, trends and expert advice on how you can take advantage of new technologies to stay ahead of performance problems. Click here to download. Product Test and Buyer's Guide, 05/29/07 By Joel Snyder You don’t often see Cisco, Juniper and Microsoft working together. But that’s what happened last month as the superstars of NAC gathered in an industrial warehouse in Belmont, Calif., to prepare for InteropLabs (iLabs), the experimental portion of the Interop show network, to be up and running in Las Vegas from May 20 to 25. Engineers from the big three of NAC, plus a whole cast of cooperating engineers from Enterasys, Extreme Networks, HP, ID Engines, LANDesk, Lockdown Networks, OSC, Trapeze Networks and Trend Micro worked collectively to build a massive interoperable NAC network. While the news is that all the big players were present in this effort, we can’t go without noting that the testing was led by the iLabs engineering team, volunteers from companies around the world, who designed the big-picture view, set the ground rules, and acted as ringmasters and referees. Last year, at iLabs’ inaugural dip into NAC interoperability, the team built three silos of NAC, proving that Cisco’s CNAC, TCG’s TNC and Microsoft’s NAP all were mature enough to work on their own with a good mix of equipment. This year, the team reached higher and built a single enormous network that combined all three frameworks into a massive NAC interoperability love-fest. Compare Products with Network World's VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide From deployable IP-PBX systems to unified messaging, Network World has detailed information on hundreds of products. Side-by-side comparisons along with objective test and review results make it quick and easy to find the solutions that are right for your enterprise. Click here to find out more. For more on this test, please click here.

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