Network Management Links 2008-09-23

By Stephen Brown
  • Deploying Wireless in IraqAnd, you think your job is tough…here’s a case of Babylon Telecommunications rolling out wireless over 25-square kilometers of Joint Base Balad (Camp Anaconda) in Iraq. There are a lot of takeaways in this article regarding wireless deployments.
  • IT Spending Up in 2009 – Given all of the tales of economic woe, you’d expect IT spending to take a hit too. Not according to this piece from NetQoS which says that given all of the new technologies emerging in networking, companies can’t afford to cut their network management budgets.
  • Overcoming Unified Communication Hurdles – Although unified communications is suppose to streamline business communication and collaboration processes, many companies stumble when implementing these applications. eWeek looks at the common hurdles businesses face with UC rollouts.
  • Getting Ready for Nano-Soccer – Imagine a robotic David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a ’soccer ball’ no wider than a human hair…The nanosoccer RoboCup, conceived by NIST, has teams of microbots facing off in soccer games as a great example of nanobot technology.

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