An open API for networking technology?
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Procurve's 'bold new security vision strategy' Futures Although I concentrate mainly on development these days, in previous lives I was involved in internal control and network management in a City financial institution and I like to keep up to date with networking and network security â especially as I believe that networking technology represents a long-neglected opportunity for developers.â¦
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McData plans to introduce a new SAN router this week designed to connect the growing number of isolated SAN networks in corporations.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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The JyAALib project is a Java/Jython implementation of the Asynchronous Action Framework based in Pure Object Oriented Concepts. The Massive Parallel Framework in Python Language - Full Compatible with Jython-JAVA.   New Beta version 1.9 is available for the PyAALib-JyAALib : The Massive Parallel Framework in Python Language - Full Compatible with Jython-JAVA
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There is a fascinating article on Groklaw called Searching for Openness in Microsoft's OOXML and Finding Contradictions. One of the most relevant comments in the article is "So, they plan to be the only one in the Linux world that can actually interoperate with Microsoft. How do you think they will achieve that? By sharing? On the contrary, they already market themselves as uniquely interoperable, which means they get to interoperate and you don't, unless you are their paying customer."  There is also the Novell comment, "Only Novell has Microsoftâs endorsement as its partner to drive Linux-Windows interoperability."
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Blog: Home networking tools are added to the service.
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Freeline range to serve content to Streamium AV kit
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Cameron Olthuis wants to share the tools that he finds th emost useful with the entire web, so he's posted them here on his blog.   His list includes libraries from all different technologies, not just PHP. Several are Javascript-related, but it's always good to have a complete toolkit on hand when trying to tackle some of the more difficult things.   Included in his list are things like:  Moo.fx - a Javascript effects library Swat - an open source web application toolkit PEAR - the PHP package repository Mochikit - lightweight Javascript library    Be sure to check out the post and its comments for more great resources!
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Single Packet Authorization fills the gaps in port knocking.
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Software radio could offer an elegant solution to what a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.
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VMukti is an open source innovative multi-point unified extensible collaborative conferencing communication system, with built-in support for access to platform features through Personalized, Mash-able RIA web-interface, Light widget for 3rd party sites, Desktops, PSTN, Mobile and IP phones developed in .NET 3.5 technology.   Its core features include online Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, Chat, File search, Whiteboard, File-sharing, Presentation, Remote monitoring/controlling/sharing, CRM and reports, all at use very low Bandwidth /CPU/Memory usage.  A lot of bugs and issues now have been resolved in the new 1.0.3.0 release and is one of the most stable alpha versions of VMukti. This release contains mostly bug fixes and windows service based server interface. Now VMukti supports most of its core features.   We would like to give a big thanks to all those reported bugs and sent us bugs attachments.  More info: http://www.vmukti.com/index.php  Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162339
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ISPs (but not big telcos) to offer bandwidth filtering
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Researchers have shown how two widely used computer technologies -- Flash and UPnP -- could be used to take over a router.
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The Netops collection of Perl scripts use SNMP to manage devices -- upgrading operating systems, modifying configuration files, and producing reports. They tend to be Cisco and APC centric.   Enhanced APC calibration support, added Tipping Point IPS support, various switch interface reports
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Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
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(InfoWorld) - Looking for an edge in the hotly contested market for wide-area network performance tools, Exinda Networks wants to help everyone get along. The Melbourne, Australia, company is set to announce on Monday a proposed standard it calls Unified Performance Management (UPM). The standard calls for integrating tools for WAN (wide-area network) optimization, application acceleration, application visibility and application response-time monitoring in one device, but it also would allow single-purpose products from different vendors to interoperate, said Con Nikolouzakis, Exinda's chief executive officer. Exinda, founded in 2002, is up against a consolidating market. Seeing enterprises struggle with poor application performance over networks, startups several years ago began rolling out appliances to speed things up. Bigger players such as Cisco Systems Inc. are now moving in, aiming to make such tools just one more set of features on a router. Exinda says it has a technology edge over bigger players. Its technology is 18 to 24 months ahead of Cisco's, and the company will keep investing to keep in front, he said. WAN optimization and application acceleration are intended to make better use of limited bandwidth and eliminate bottlenecks that slow down data exchange across a WAN. Exinda combines these with tools that show how applications are operating and how long it takes users to finish tasks. The combination allows Exinda's appliance to apply the right mechanisms when they're needed, Nikolouzakis said. It also gives IT administrators evidence, beyond anecdotal reports, that their solutions are working. Demand for better application response is growing fast as more employees work in branch offices and on the road, said IDC analyst Cindy Borovick. The market is consolidating, but there is still room for smaller vendors like Exinda, she said. UPM is an open standard, now in its first version, that will continue to evolve, Nokolouzakis said. Exinda aims to bring it in to a standards body such as the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) or IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.). Nokolouzakis drew an analogy to open standards for security, such as IPSec (Internet Protocol Security). When vendors first started using IPSec, their implementations didn't work together, and it took an open standard to solve the problem. Likewise, security functions such as firewall, VPN (virtual private network) and virus protection are now being combined in unified systems, he said. Exinda could push adoption of UPM by winning over the engineers on technical committees and by getting a large service provider to adopt its technology, Borovick said. A carrier with appliances from many vendors would be have a reason to push for interoperability. Exinda makes a range of appliances spanning everything from branch offices (starting at about US$1,000) to enterprise headquarters, Nokolouzakis said. In the future, it plans to offer a software client for mobile workers. Also Monday, Exinda will add WAFS (wide area file services) capability to its Exinda 4800 and 6800 appliances. The software is designed to speed up file transfers by eliminating the inefficiencies of the CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol. The CIFS acceleration feature will be available in January as a standard feature on the devices and as a free download from Exinda.
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The display offers information like a download and upload "speedometer" and network bandwidth usage.