Stories by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service

Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 April, 2013 13:04

Tags: Comcast IPv6, distribution, Comcast Metro Ethernet, Metro Ethernet IPv6, comcast, IT management, Comcast broadband, ipv6, LAN & WAN, Comcast commercial broadband

Internet engineers punk'd

The Internet's premier standards body has punk'd the network engineering community with the release of a phony Internet Draft as it does each April Fool's Day.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 01 April, 2013 16:13

Tags: Networking, LAN & WAN

Which tech degrees pay the most from day one?

Young technologists have a variety of undergraduate degrees that they can pursue at the collegiate level. But which degree is going to produce the most job offers and the highest starting salaries? Should college students major in computer science, software engineering, IT or some other niche in order to snare the top prize four years from now: a six-figure starting salary, perhaps with stock options?

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 March, 2013 12:04

Tags: management, Georgetown University, Networking, infrastructure management

Hybrid technology degrees emerging

As demand for college graduates with technical degrees soars, new majors are emerging that are hybrids of computer science, information systems and computer engineering.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 March, 2013 12:04

Tags: management, Penn State University, Networking, education, infrastructure management, industry verticals

In Pictures: IT deal book of 2013

Our running list of mergers and acquisitions

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 14 February, 2013 08:14

Tags: management, slideshow, IT deals, business, Mergers and acquisitions

New IPv6 training video released

Seeing an uptick in demand for IPv6-trained engineers in Europe, IT video training firm CBT Nuggets is offering a new 21-hour class aimed at teaching the basics of the next-gen Internet protocol.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 31 January, 2013 15:39

Tags: Networking, ipv6, LAN & WAN

5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few US companies have deployed long-term fix

Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC ) to alleviate this threat.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 29 January, 2013 12:05

Tags: domain name system, DNS security, security, Dan Kaminsky, Secure64, Kaminsky bug, LAN & WAN, DNSSEC

Hughes wins its first satellite-based telemedicine deal

Hughes Network Systems will provide broadband satellite services to the New England Telehealth Consortium under a four-year contract that the satellite ISP says is its first deal in the area of mobile telemedicine.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 11 January, 2013 21:11

Tags: IBM, telemedicine, Networking, telehealth, New England Telehealth Consortium, mobile telehealth, Hughes Spaceway 3, satellite Internet, LAN & WAN, Hughes Network Systems, AvL Technologies, mobile telemedicine

Best tech colleges are harder than ever to get in

Results from the early application rounds at the nation's best technical colleges indicate that it will be another excruciatingly difficult year for high school seniors to get accepted into top-notch undergraduate computer science and engineering programs.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 03 January, 2013 19:13

Tags: Networking, education, infrastructure management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, careers, IT management, industry verticals, colleges, management, tech colleges

Best IT resolutions for 2013

It's that time of year when IT executives' thoughts turn to setting resolutions for the new year. We've talked to CIOs, IT analysts and other industry experts about the major trends for 2013 to come up with our own list of suggested IT resolutions.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 02 January, 2013 12:04

Tags: MDM, SaaS, outlook 2013, Networking, wireless, tech resolutions, Software as a service, cloud computing, CIO, internet, OpenStack, BYOD, Cloud, big data analytics

IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off

A battle is brewing between two standards bodies - the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - over which group will be the primary source of the underlying communications protocols that allow the Internet to operate in the future.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 03 December, 2012 14:20

Tags: WCIT, Networking, IETF standards, IETF vs ITU, Dubai ITU, Google ITU, International Telecommunication Union, ITU standards, LAN & WAN, Apple, Google

U.S. government honored for pioneering work in IPv6

The IPv6 Forum on Tuesday presented a special award to four U.S. government officials for their pioneering work in promoting IPv6, an emerging upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 14 November, 2012 16:42

Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, HP, DoD, Internet Society, IPv6 Forum, internet, ipv6, LAN & WAN

ISOC honors Facebook, Comcast execs for IPv6 work

The Internet Society last night awarded its highest honor for work related to IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol, to executives from Facebook and Comcast. Recipients of the award were Paul Saab and Donn Lee, software engineers at Facebook, and John Brzozowski, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for IPv6 at Comcast.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 08 November, 2012 17:53

Tags: Google, comcast, Internet Society, internet, ipv6, LAN & WAN, ISOC, Facebook

Apple seeks standard to appease angry university net managers

Under fire from its customers in the higher education market, Apple has proposed creating a new industry standard that would fix problems with its Bonjour zero configuration networking technology that is causing scalability and security problems on campus networks.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 08 November, 2012 16:48

Tags: IBM, Xirrus, security, education, IETF Atlanta, Apple Bonjour, industry verticals, zero configuration, LAN & WAN, IETF Apple, Apple

'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud

Originally billed as the world's largest telecommunications purchase, the U.S. government's Networx contract is turning out to be chump change for the five carriers involved in the deal. Halfway through its 10-year term, the contract has driven around $2 billion in revenue compared to projections as high as $34 billion for this stage of the program.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 November, 2012 11:47

Tags: unified communications, FTS 2001, at&t, Networking, verizon, Networx contract, CenturyLink, government, industry verticals, government telecom contracts, Origin

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