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Your must-have telecom budget for 2010

Network World - It's autumn again. Wood smoke in the air, leaves crunching underfoot … and budgets weighing down the desktop. If you're like most of the IT professionals I work with, you've gone through your preliminary budgeting exercise -- the one ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  12 Nov 2009

Investing in (all kinds of) infrastructure

Network World - Oct. 27 marked the 105th birthday of the New York City subway system, which is both gratifying and depressing. It's gratifying because it's a reminder of how vital, enduring, and effective properly designed infrastructure can be. The ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Johns Hopkins University

Firing up those femtocells

Network World - The folks over at the Femto Forum, in conjunction with the European telecommunications standards institute, recently announced a "plugfest" for March 2010. The plugfest will serve as a forum to for interoperability tests among femtocell ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: AT&T Inc.

Hello net neutrality, goodbye Internet

Network World - As the old adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for — you might get it, and wish you hadn't." Proponents of net neutrality might want to keep that in mind now that net neutrality regulations from either the FCC, Congress or both are a ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  1 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Julius Genachowski,  AT&T Inc.,  Google Inc.

Transformative technologies for the 21st century

Network World - Innovations seem to have a natural economic life cycle: an obscure invention (say, electricity, or the internal combustion engine) sparks an entire constellation of industries, which grow exponentially for a while, then settle into a ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: AARP,  Tracy Kidder,  Sony

Can UC me now?

Network World - Unified communications is a buzzword that's front-and-center for many organizations this year. Some are already deploying various UC technologies (UC is one of the top three "recession-proof" technologies in Nemertes' 2009 benchmark). ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  1 Sep 2009

Telecommuting on the rise, though not necessarily within IT departments

Network World - "Mommy, what does 'commute' mean?" "It's what people used to do in the old days, Sweetie. They got in cars and drove from their houses to where they worked. Sometimes it took hours and hours." "Why did they do that?" "Because their ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  19 Aug 2009

Opinion: The FCC has a full court: What's next?

Network World - With the recent swearing-in of the FCC's chair, Democratic Commissioner Julius Genachowski last month, and the Senate approval of the nominations of Democrat Mignon Clyburn and Republican Meredith Attwell Baker as commissioners last ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Julius Genachowski,  U.S. Senate

A look at cloud computing's dark lining

Unless you've been living in a cave all summer like one of my friends (it's in Finland, he's an artistic genius) you've probably heard the buzz about cloud computing. Like most technologies at the "hype" life-cycle stage, cloud computing can apparently ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, NetworkWorld,  22 Jul 2009

Make sure yours is a WAN with a plan

Network World - Now is an excellent time to be reevaluating your WAN strategy. New technologies such as carrier Ethernet and Session Initiation Protocol trunking can help cut costs and increase availability. WAN and application optimization ...

From JOHNA TILL JOHNSON, ComputerWorld,  15 Jul 2009

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