April 3, 2001
Interactive Week: Cerf Says Telephone Will Be Vital To Net's Future.
And Cerf worries that DSL service, which is being pushed as a solution to high-speed access needs, will eventually disappoint both consumers and providers. "DSL may eventually turn out to be more expensive to maintain as a physical plant than optical fiber," he says.
Interactive Week: New Players Pull Fiber Into Neighborhoods.
With the promise of the high-speed Internet dashed by poky copper wires in most homes, new efforts are being made to lay optical fiber closer to customers. The regional Bells have been slow to push fiber into neighborhoods because it's expensive.
NY Times: Flaw in Popular Wireless Standard.
In a draft of a paper titled "Your 802.11 Wireless Network Has No Clothes," the researchers describe how the access control systems that are designed to protect wireless networks against hostile users can, in fact, be easily deceived.
InfoWorld: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6.
The discovery of security flaws in the proposed Mobile IPv6 protocol means the Internet Engineering Task Force will have to develop a new method for authenticating roaming devices that use IPv6 addresses. This development means delays of months for Mobile IPv6...
Computerworld: ICANN approves contract changes with VeriSign.
The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a hotly debated new agreement with VeriSign Inc. to give the company continued oversight of the lucrative .com Internet domain name registry through 2007.
Business 2.0: eBay Updates Privacy Policy.
The new privacy policy, which takes effect May 15 but is already updated on the site, reflects a growing awareness among online retailers that they need to address possible future scenarios, and let customers know what will happen to their information.
MIT Technology Review: Fiber Crosses the 10-Trillion-Bit Barrier.
Developers traditionally report record-setting "hero experiments" at the annual show. Typically, the maximum capacity of commercial systems lags behind the record-setting pace by only a few years. On March 13, Siemens A.G. announced it had transmitted 3.2 trillion bits per second...
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