Cornerstone Issue 25: August 31, 2000
Welcome to Issue 25 of Cornerstone, an electronic newsletter
issued periodically by Core Competence.
Cornerstone reports on a wide range of networking topics and
activities involving Core Competence. A brief abstract explains
what you will find if you choose to visit each URL.
http://www.clec-planet.com/business/00082phifer.htm
Broadband providers such as EarthLink, Excite@Home, Prodigy, and
BroadView, are providing residential subscribers with personal firewalls.
Lisa Phifer discusses the CLEC business case behind this emerging trend.
http://myplanner.key3media.com/interop/atlanta2000/planner/agenda.cfm?cid=VPN
Join Dave Piscitello, Fred Avolio, and Joel Snyder at this unique seminar
designed to help the IT professional quickly learn the most critical
business, technology, and deployment aspects of VPNs. If you prefer a
workshop on VPNs, Fred Avolio presents similar material on Wednesday
September 27 (see W951, VPN Introduction and Best Practices).
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/whatsupg1.html
In part 5 of our entry-level NMS series, we review WhatsUp Gold. This
low-cost network and service monitor puts its awareness of connections
between devices, subnets, and services to work to achieve more
efficient, scalable 24x7 surveillance.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/mg-soft1.html
In part 4 of our entry-level NMS series, we review an overlapping duo,
NetInspector and MIB Browser. Together, this pair offers nearly
everything you'd expect from an under-$1,000 SNMP NMS, including a
plug-in architecture for expansion.
http://www.clec-planet.com/tech/0008phifer.htm
Should CLECs offload billing to a third party? Columnist Lisa Phifer
discusses how service bureaus and ASPs can support CLEC billing, and
why the decision to use them may depend on the size of the CLEC.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/radware.html
Here we take a look at RADWARE's new "Application Switch". This new
platform moves layer four server load balancing into ASICs, providing
more robust Internet traffic management for ISPs, ASPs, and web hosters.
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SECURITY
Securing Residential Broadband Connections: Personal Firewall Approach
CLEC-Planet, August 28, 2000
Virtual Private Networking (VPN) Day
N+I Atlanta, Monday, September 25, 2000
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
Show Me the Network: WhatsUp Gold 5.0
ISP-Planet, August 16, 2000
Management by Plug-In: MG-SOFT NetInspector and MIB Browser
ISP-Planet, August 9, 2000
CLECs: Growth Market for Billing Service Bureaus and ASPs
CLEC-Planet, August 1, 2000
LOAD BALANCING
Hardware Switching and Traffic Management
ISP-Planet, August 2, 2000