The company, which makes cans for companies such as Gillette and WD40, has purchased a WAN and telephony solution comprising structured cabling, 3Com LAN Environment, Cisco routers, Leased Line connectivity and SDX INDeX telephone switches.
3Com will this year dispose of its enterprise LAN and WAN corporate business due to lack of growth and the amount of cash needed to bring it in line with the rest of the company, according to Bruce Claflin, president and chief operating officer at...
And there you have it: Gigabit Ethernet allows networks to become one fat pipe running from the LAN to the MAN and - according to future take up by the market - to the home and WAN as well. Now its developers at the IEEE intend to take Ethernet out...
In particular, voice quality problems are most likely to occur on the WAN, where the bandwidth available for transmission is less than that available on the LAN. However, problems can occur on the LAN, especially when using other bandwidth...
The advent of broadband has solved the speed problem - but not the challenge of network security. We could perform all the requested tasks out of the box. Remote access to the company LAN is a common, if under-utilised means of empowering flexible...
A standards body is set to ratify 802.11n by September next year, giving Wi-Fi a throughput of 100Mbps and helping to bolster its potential uses in bandwidth-heavy situations. Wireless LAN has really moved to business critical," he said.