NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MICHAEL COONEY ON TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 10/11/04 Today's focus: IP video services grow
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * A look at the growing world of IP video services * Links related to Technology Update * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. IT organizations face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex, data-driven application environments. Read this white paper to discover several factors which will converge to challenge the IT organization's ability to manage its database software infrastructure. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84706 _______________________________________________________________ Security Event : DEFENDING IN DEPTH Security: The vulnerability that paralyzes enterprise. 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Additionally, IP video quality is better than ISDN, offering as much as double the resolution. And the services are generally easy to find. All top-tier ISPs offer IP-based video conferencing services. Most are built upon Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS), a traffic engineering protocol that allows network managers to create a dedicated class of service for video applications. The trend it seems is that companies that migrate from ISDN to IP for video conferencing tend to do so gradually, our author (<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) says. They choose IP video when they move to IP-wired buildings, open new locations or need to replace aging ISDN equipment. Companies that already have IP VPNs find it relatively inexpensive to add video traffic across the same backbone. There's a lot more to this story. See: <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1011specialfocus.html> RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS IP video adds oomph to mature technology Network World,�09/20/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092004ipvideo.html Start-up offers videoconferencing options Network World, 02/16/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0216codian.html Infonet unveils IP video service Network World ISP News Report Newsletter, 05/19/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/isp/2004/0517isp2.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Michael Cooney Michael Cooney is an Associate News Editor. Aside from his news responsibilities, Cooney handles the Infrastructure and Enterprise Application sections of Network World. Cooney has been writing for Network World since 1992. 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