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Top 5 Networking Innovations

• David Strom
• Technology Editor, VARBusiness
• XChange October 2003

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Are you an iPod or a BlackBerry?

• Top two innovations of the past year(s)
• Both exemplify trends towards mobile computing
• Both have become platforms for add-ons and
  enhancements
• Both have branched out beyond their initial focus
  (music and email)

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Products you should watch

• Lantronix XPort
• Symantec Deep Sight Analysis
• Vonage IP Phones
• IBM eServer Blade Center
• Trapeze Wireless Management
• HP ProCurve Switches
• PGP Universal

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What do all have in common?

• Adding infrastructure easily
• Expandability and scalability
• Pushing ahead on several fronts at once

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Some wireless trends

• Wireless is far too confusing, especially with
  rise of G and A standards
• Dont confuse throughput with coverage range and
  effective speeds
• Why is security still be ignored by most of your
  customers?

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Some infrastructure trends

• High end and low end networks getting all the
  attention its the middle child that is the most
  needy!
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet coming
• But 10BaseT-only solutions still around
• Few companies can afford wholesale upgrades and
  more migration products and services will be
  required

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Some email trends

• Secure email still just a hope, not a practice
• Spam is beyond being bothersome
• Anti-virus is essential on both corporate servers
  and laptops
• Still an active arena for VARs

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Lantronix XPort

• Embedded Web server in small form factor
• Simple but elegant way to transform existing
  serial comms to the Web
• Reduce time to market for OEMs and ISVs

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Symantec Deep Sight Analysis

• Early warning program for network attacks and
  vulnerabilities
• Its like having a control center staff at your
  beck and call
• Two sets of services one for internal equipment
  and one for external
• Customized reports are a bit difficult

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Vonage IP Phones

• So simple you will be looking around for
  something to do
• Fully featured call waiting, caller ID,
  voicemail
• Self-service Web that the Baby Bells could never
  imagine
• One monthly fee for virtually unlimited calling

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IBM eServer Blade Center

• Twice the density (84 2-way servers), half the
  price
• Everything is hot-swappable, including networking
  connections, KVM modules, and power supplies
• Scalable, manageable, the core of IBMs on demand
  vision

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Trapeze Wireless Management

• Figure out coverage areas inside buildings
• Gives you radio properties and ties location of
  your access points to your floorplan
• Solves roaming problem
• Solves security problem

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HP ProCurve Switches

• Fastest growing switch vendor
• Cheapest, most manageable gigabit products
• 4100 Buy x blades, chassis comes free
• 2824 24 Managed Gig. ports for 2500
• Allows incremental improvement to the edge

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PGP Universal

• Possibly the most interesting secure email
  product to come along in the last few years
• Offloads PKI management to machines, not people
• Works just on Linux and POP right now
• Won my editors choice last night at Tech
  Innovators dinner

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Our panel

• Jeff Williams, Belkin
• Dan Glessner, Trend Micro
• Bobbi Frioli, Clearswift