Stories by David Newman

Adtran serves up newest low-cost router

As long as Cisco Systems leads the router market, competitors will continue to come up with differentiators. With Adtran's new NetVanta 4305 access router, the differentiators are price, price, price.

Cisco's Catalyst 6500 raises the stakes

Cisco Systems might be a relative latecomer to 10G Ethernet switching, but it's hardly playing catch-up. Our exclusive lab tests show that new line cards and management modules for Cisco's Catalyst 6500 switches push the performance envelope in a number of ways:

Filtering dos and don'ts

Filters can permit or deny virtually any kind of traffic - up to a point. Here are some basic dos and don'ts for filter usage.

IDS: It doesn't satisfy?

Our intrusion-detection test published in June seems to have touched a raw nerve. Few responses were neutral, with most end users loving it and many vendors expressing . . . well, something other than love.

PKI: Build, buy or bust?

Imagine a technology that authenticates virtually any transaction, enables e-commerce applications and is available to any user, anywhere. Now imagine a technology that can lead to fraud, is expensive to implement and requires serious retooling of enterprise hardware and software to be effective. Which one would you pick?

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