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The Technology Voice over IP is really a variety of services. The vision of voice communications carried over a packet-switched data network is hypnotic, promising compelling services such as a […]

The rich are different. So are Web sites that sell to the rich. Just ask Bob Paquin, who, as chief operating officer of Blue Nile Inc., last year sold $50 […]

ICP is the cyberage's version of the old-fashioned, neighborhood operator IT'S TAKEN MORE THAN A CENTURY AND MANY TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THE TELEcom industry to recreate Betty, the helpful […]

It's academic: global corporations require global networks. So it's no surprise that the Fast-Track 100 Enterprise Networking Innovators list is dominated by large companies with widely dispersed worldwide operations. But […]

Key to the service's success is in its model and certification process for assembling a VPN The Automotive Network Exchange is a VPN with a split personality. On the one […]

As the owner and manager of three Arizona-based hospitals and several clinics, Carondelet Health Network is responsible for the communications systems that help run these medical facilities. To avoid potentially […]

Most IS managers asked to take a group of 70 volunteers and set up a more than 7,000-node network using 10BaseT, 100BaseT, 100VG-AnyLAN, FDDI and ATM in a strange location […]

It looks like any other superstore: large, easy to shop in, and with reasonable prices. But the 3-week-old Las Vegas store called Wow is not just another outlet in a […]

Your mission: Link up disparate systems in a war zone, with clients and servers constantly moving on and off the network, waiting to transmit life-or-death data over unreliable, low-speed lines. […]

Client/Server Deployment: Indiana State Legislature Problem: Needed to network state Senate and House of Representative members without tearing up a recently refurbished 108-year-old Capitol building. Solution: Implemented a wireless network […]

If you're thinking about not reporting all of your income at tax time next year, think again. Even that winning lottery ticket could be accounted for with the first full […]

ANNE KNOWLES Like many large corporations, Church & Dwight Co., the company that manufactures Arm & Hammer baking soda, moved to client/server technology on the advice of an outside consulting […]

Now that we're all being asked to meander down the national data superhighway, it's time we became familiar with the services it will offer travelers, as well as where it […]

By Steve Higgins The stage is nearly set for the U.S. government to develop a high-performance network linking scientists, educators and businesses across the country. Following congressional approval last month […]

A Humble Beginning for a Healthy Network When the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set up its first LAN back in the spring of 1985, the goal […]

Multimedia Giant's LAN Plan Is Now a Reality Not everything in networking goes exactly according to plan. At Gannett Co., however, the network blueprint drawn up two years ago looks […]

President Clinton has set a goal that every classroom should be 'wired up' to the Internet by the year 2003, with every student in the U.S. school system computer literate […]

Corporations generally purchase telecommunications services from commercial providers, but making sense of the recent explosion of offerings, on top of confusing pricing and service plans, is enough to make any […]

Rail transportation giant CSX rides the Java train to share information with customers Have Java-based intranet applications arrived at the point where they are rugged enough to carry the freight […]

One size fits all with ready-to-wear Notes Three years ago, Tom Dow and his IT staff at Houghton Mifflin Co. were struggling to stitch together four E-mail systems into an […]

One of the first columns I wrote for PC Week -- back in the spring of 1992 -- was a rant on the lack of advanced print services. It's a […]

Although he's in the risk business, Steve Sapp approached client/server implementation cautiously. Last year Sapp was faced with the dueling tasks of slashing system-response time while expanding the capabilities of […]

Football is big business, and the Super Bowl is the biggest of the big. The National Football League, a PC Week Corporate Lab Partner, spent two weeks building a miniature […]

386 Upgrade Expedites Ohio's Childcare Services The state of Ohio is expanding an innovative program that matches prospective parents with adoptive children and also tracks child abusers. In a first […]

We enthusiastically await the approaching confluence of telephonic voice mail and PC-based electronic mail. Though ubiquitous use of 'E-V mail' systems is still years off, recent developments at Microsoft indicate […]

By Paula Musich Merrill Lynch & Co. next month expects to bring up the first of some 500 networks as part of a distributed system designed to provide brokers' offices […]

By Paula Musich and Robert L. Scheier FORT WORTH, Texas -- American Airlines Inc. is aiming to do for its internal operations what it has done for the travel industry […]

Careful T-1 Planning Pays Off Recently I had teh opportunity to visit the offices of Federal Engineering, a consulting firm based in Fairfax, Va., that specializes in T-1 networks and […]

By J.B. Miles When the London-based Association of International Bond Dealers (AIBD) set out several years ago to build a global, computer-driven network that would enable instant tracking and management […]

By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings Peripheral-sharing hardware and software have come a long way in the last few years. Many vendors now bill their products as zero-slot […]

Northern Telecom and IBM To Conduct Pilot Network Test As a direct spinoff from IBM's multivendor networking announcements last week nsee story, Page C/1), Northern Telecom Inc. and IBM announced […]

ISDN's Unified Front Solves Some Big Headaches By Simplifying Training and Networking Tactics Although Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDNs) allows the U.S. Bank of Portland (Ore.) to conduct many connectivity-related […]

This is the column I started to write last week. I wanted to begin with the comment of Intel's vice president, Jean-Claude Cornet, who concluded our discussion of Intel's future […]