Network Performance Daily Links 2006-10-17


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Network World: Network management changing the course for 'framework' vendors
"The whole notion that application management and network management represent two views of the same ocean is, as an extension of this, an area to watch. This is a complex question with many dimensions, and how these platform vendors work through this maze of opportunity and confusion - will become one of the most interesting (I hope) active areas of platform innovation over next five years."
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IT Week: Change management key to IT success
"The deployment of change and configuration management controls is the single most important factor determining the performance of an IT department."

silicon.com: We love WLAN, say consumers
"Business demand for centralised WLAN architecture technology in particular continued to grow, with revenues jumping 48 per cent, whereas revenue for decentralised architecture products fell 16 per cent."

Computerworld: Email servers will choke, says Spamhaus
"The legal battle between antispam organisation Spamhaus and David Linhard, of e360 Insight, is heating up, with a court order that could cause a temporary ten-fold surge in spam...the immediate issue is that if the domain is suspended, the torrent of bulk mail hitting the the world’s mail servers would cause many of them to fail."

Dossy's Blog: Greylisting, another battle in the "war on spam"
Dossy likes greylisting to prevent spam.  Network engineers should be aware that greylisting essentially means anyone not on your whitelist is going to have to send e-mail twice – which can "clog up the tubes."

VoIP Watch: Me and My Mylo
Andy Abramson tests out Sony's Skype on the Go device.

Torrentfreak: P2P Speeds Cut in Half by Australian ISP
This is a solution? "Exetel noticed that the percentage of P2P traffic is relatively high relative to the rest of the traffic on their network. To counter the increasing cost that are involved with the rise in P2P traffic they decided that it would be
“better for everyone” if they cut the available bandwidth in half.




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