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Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=91313 _______________________________________________________________ Network World's LANs News Alert The WLAN standards alphabet keeps growing, 12/13/04 The bad news is the alphabet of IEEE standards for wireless LANs keeps expanding. The good news is you can ignore a lot of it, at least until the new technology starts showing up in actual WLAN products. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304specialfocus.html?nl> Cisco eyes larger data center, IT services roles, 12/13/04 Cisco last week insisted, in the face of some skepticism, that its products will be the key ingredient for businesses trying to virtualize IT services such as storage, processing, applications and security. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304ciscoenterprise.html?nl> Foundry adds oomph to data center appliances, 12/13/04 Foundry Networks this week is introducing appliances and switches aimed at making Web server farms and data centers more secure and accessible. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304foundry.html?nl> A Wider Net: These networks are history, 12/13/04 Seventeenth and 18th century architects Sir Christopher Wren and Charles Bulfinch are renowned, respectively, for ornate, domed designs such as St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the statehouses in Boston and Hartford. But they didn't know jack about ... <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304widernethistory.html?nl> WLAN vendor Chantry to be bought by Siemens, 12/09/04 Chantry Networks has become the latest WLAN start-up to give up trying to go it alone. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1209chantry.html?nl> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Network World Staff Senior Writer Phil Hochmuth covers routers and switches for Network World. Reach him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Online News Editor Jeff Caruso writes our High-Speed LANs newsletter. Reach him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Force 10 Networks Is Gigabit Ethernet Density Important to You? The Force10 Networks TeraScale E-Series leads the industry with up to 672 line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ports or up to 56 line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single massively resilient, fully redundant chassis. 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