This Network World Fusion article describes two new industry organizations focusing on exactly that technology. Internet Streaming Media Alliance formed ZDNet ZDNet article details the newly-founded Internet Streaming Media Alliance. The nonprofit's focus will be on forming standard protocols and design concerns for the emerging streaming media market, which is currently divided into a number of largely incompatible camps. Though brought to their knees by teardrop DoS assaults in the spring, companies as diverse as eBay and Yahoo have now formed the the DDoS Working Group, an attempt at sharing knowledge and technologies so as best to prevent a revisitation of such bandwidth-consuming approaches to destroying functionality and uptime. Gigabit Ethernet Alliance Gigabit Ethernet Alliance Site is dedicated to an unbiased, open forum for discussion of the general subject of gigabit Ethernet as an abstract standard and a real-world implementation.
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Of particular interest are highly specific articles on such immediately relevant topics as the process of converting from Fast Ethernet to Gigabit. The latter includes research reports and handbooks that can be ordered for a fee. Network managers considering outsourcing network or systems management should visit the MSP Association's Web site for news about this area of growing interest. Site includes wireless LAN case studies. Its certification extends to firewalls, IPsec, VPNs, cryptography, PKI, filtering and monitoring.