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    What those oceanic cable cuts mean to you 08/02/2008 09:28:32

    Are we at the dawn of a new era of cable terrorism?
    Forget the Super Bowl. Ignore the presidential primaries. For network geeks, the really big news recently was the cable outages in the Mediterranean, which disrupted Internet connections to Europe and the Middle East. The outages have raised a host of questions about the vulnerability of the Internet and the action plans enterprises should have in place to protect themselves from the consequences. Here are some frequently asked questions -- and the answers.
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    Wiretapping, whistleblowing and IT ethics 09/11/2007 08:16:10

    AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has got Mark Gibbs thinking
    Recently a retired AT&T employee named Mark Klein announced at a Capitol Hill press conference that he had evidence that "An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables ... was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room."
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    Successful small business VoIP 17/08/2007 15:22:16

    Some good Internet phone news
    Sad headlines abound in the VoIP world lately: SunRocket sinks, Vonage stock sinks, joy and optimism sink. Wait, not every company in this market sings the blues. To see how the happier half lives, I contacted the folks at Bandwidth.com to see how they're doing lately.
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    Rethinking wireless LAN packet loss 02/08/2007 11:51:03

    Just how big a problem is wireless packet loss?
    We all know that there are trade-offs when using wireless communications. We would never tolerate the quality of our cell phones on land lines and we know that our wired Ethernet connections have better raw throughput than wireless.
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