Networking Companies Face Speed Problems at Industry Conference
Atlanta, Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Bottlenecks, brownouts and
slowdowns will dominate the discussion at a leading computer-
networking industry conference, where executives and analysts
will consider ways to fix the problems that continue to choke
company data networks and the Internet.
The Networld & Interop conference, tomorrow through Friday
at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, will focus on
key new technologies to speed the flow of information over
networks and make networks more reliable.
As corporate and householders computer users log onto
networks in greater numbers, demanding that those networks do
increasingly sophisticated tasks such as carry television images,
networks must become quicker and more powerful to cope with the
new applications, analysts say.
''Companies are telling us they're going to increase network
spending now by more than at any time in the last five years,''
said Vijay Rajamani, an analyst at Cowen & Co.
Rajamani said he will be looking for products offering so-
called Gigabit Ethernet technology and applications. Gigabit
Ethernet sends information over networks at 100 times the speed
of conventional Ethernet, the technology currently dominant for
linking PCs.
Many networking companies are racing to gain a lead in
Gigabit Ethernet before a universal standard is set for the
technology, probably next year.
Keynote speakers at the conference include Cisco Systems
Inc. Chief Technology Officer Edward Kozel, Lucent Technologies
Inc. Vice President Karyn Mashima and Frank Moss, chief executive
of Tivoli Systems, a division of International Business Machines
Corp.
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