A rapidly diminishing supply of unique IP addresses is driving the migration to IP version 6 (IPv6), and it’s a problem that may be another potential banana skin for network managers. It makes sense to vendors - who can sell more equipment - and to...
Microsoft is using the latest web services security mechanisms even though the various specifications are likely to change, according to Microsoft executives. Using the policy authoring mechanisms in the WS-Policy and WS-SecurityPolicy, a developer...
Shrinking budgets and migration to advanced networks coupled with an increasing pressure on ICT services are driving this move. The widespread acceptance of internet protocol (IP) has some interesting knock-on effects.
This migration to IP will allow carriers such as Verizon and SBC to consolidate their networks so that all traffic, whether it's email, web surfing or voice calls, travel over a single network. Juniper, a rival of networking giant Cisco, will use...
We consider it a natural extension of other download mechanisms. Christen Krogh, Opera vice president of engineering, said: "BitTorrent has been on our radar for some while, and when we looked at the protocol, we found that was a very good way of...
He told the audience at the security conference: "We will build this model of seamless, easy access across all these devices. Gates said: "We think this is the milestone where enterprises should start the migration from passwords to smartcards.