Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Juniper's Q1 revenue falls, earnings plummet Juniper Networks Thursday blamed a drop-off in new network build-outs for a first quarter plunge in revenue and earnings, though said enterprise revenue did rise. How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. New code lets Bluetooth applications now run over 802.11g wireless connections in the 2.4GHz, with a throughput jump to 20M to 24Mbps, from 1M to 3Mbps. 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet IT managers who are getting started with – or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity. Slideshow: The evolution of Ethernet The IEEE is pushing Ethernet to unimaginable speeds, with the 40/100Gigabit Ethernet standard expected to be ratified in 2010 and Terabit Ethernet on the drawing board for 2015. Here's a timeline showing key milestones in the growth of Ethernet. Guide to Videoconferencing Services: Part III Polycom, Tandberg, and RADVISION are the three most well established traditional room-based video conferencing vendors. More recently LifeSize joined the group with products focused exclusively on high definition (HD) room-based conferencing. Cisco and HP are market newcomers, having both introduced telepresence systems a mere two years ago. Gomez unveils mobile monitoring tools For those who want to do their own mobile benchmarking, there’s a new tool from Gomez that helps customers measure the performance of their mobile Web sites, mobile applications and SMS services. F5 upgrade speeds, secures application delivery F5 is enabling machine-to-machine communications among its Big-IP acceleration devices to secure and speed links among corporate offices. Previously these Web front-ends accelerated traffic just between Web servers and individual users, but with the box-to-box support, they can speed up traffic transfers between sites. Choices abound: How to track Web performance Figure out the best way to watch your site in our Product Guide. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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