Welcome to Extreme Networks Velocity e-mail newsletter for March.
Extreme Velocity offers a complete range of articles on the technology issues facing service providers, metropolitan area networks, enterprises and e-businesses. This monthly newsletter offers succinct and timely information on hot technologies such as Layer 3 switching, policy-based routing, quality of service, optical broadband switching, and WDM, and real-life case studies of how businesses are integrating these technological solutions into their networks.
Thank You,
The Extreme Velocity Editorial Staff
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Technical Update
Defining MPLS
As its name implies, Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS, is essentially a labeling system designed to accommodate multiple protocols. Put another way, the use of MPLS labels enables routers to avoid the processing overhead of delving deeply into each packet and performing complex route lookup operations based upon destination IP addresses.
To learn more about MPLS, go to:
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Data Center Switching
USDataCenters Fulfills Essential IP Services
USDataCenters provides facilities-based hosting and managed services, guaranteeing availability, performance and security for its Internet and enterprise clients. The company has created a scalable and fully redundant network platform supporting an array of essential IP services.
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extremenetworks.com
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Network Management
A Discussion about Intrusion Detection Systems
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can be compared to an alarm system for your house. A house alarm will be tripped when a motion is detected or a circuit surrounding a door is broken. In an IDS an alarm is tripped when a known attack signature is detected, or there is an unauthorized change in the status of the system, notifying the systems administrator of the intrusion.
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Service Provider Solutions
Usage Based Billing
Usage-based billing starts with a solid grounding in standards based SNMP (MIB II and RMON) with important additions specific to the provider environment, such as support for high capacity (HC) counters through the Interfaces MIB (RFC 2233) and support for GetBulk operations. These mechanisms form the backbone for simple, yet robust capabilities of usage-based billing.
To see the rest of the story on usage-based billing, go to:
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Enterprise Solutions
The Pentagon Gets a Purple Renovation
In 1998, General Dynamics Worldwide Telecommunication Systems was awarded the Pentagon Renovation contract by the Department of Defense's Information Management and Telecommunications Project Office. After conducting a comprehensive vendor evaluation, Extreme Networks was selected as the backbone networking equipment for the project.
For the rest of the story, go to:
extremenetworks.com
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Company Information
Extreme Announces Plan to Acquire WebStacks, Inc.
On Thursday, March 1, 2001, Extreme Networks announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WebStacks, Inc., a privately-held company developing data center technology to vastly increase website performance.
For more information go to:
extremenetworks.com
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Users Group
It’s GOOD to be a User
Extreme Networks is proud to introduce a new section to email Extreme Velocity - Extreme Networks Users Group. With information on the latest developments of the Users Group, technical tips and other valuable information specifically for Extreme customers, this section enables Extreme to keep end users well-informed. In order to subscribe to this section, you must be a registered member of the Extreme Networks Users Group. Go to extremenetworks.com to join the Users Group or to access this section if you are already a member.
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