This section contains general information, tips and tricks, light reading, entertainment and other general fodder. Enjoy!
This article was originally published October 28, 1999! International flights provide a great opportunity to catch up on reading. This especially applies to the weekly, biweekly and monthly trade magazines of our industry. Each time I get this opportunity I look forward to my time to review this portal of our industry. One interesting and […]
This article was originally published on May 21st, 1999! I was working several months ago on a network design consulting effort which underscored the main point of this article – that bandwidth is the simplest cure to all networking problems, and in particular to Quality of Service (QoS). I had spent weeks looking at the
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This article was originally published on January 21st, 1999! Read this carefully. I’m going to explain to you that there is no Quality of Service (QoS) today with packet-based technologies. “No QoS?” you ask? Nope. Not even with ATM. Not yet. Let’s begin with addressing the two sides of the packet technology debate and technology.
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PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING By Stephen Lieb Senior Technical Writer and Planner, Arizona Department of Health Services and part-time Instructor, South Mountain Community College from VISION, Fall 1991 Adults As LearnersPart of being an effective instructor involves understanding how adults learn best. Compared to children and teens, adults have special needs and requirements as learners.
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This article was originally published October 24th, 1998! Packetizing the network is very different from what some call the conversion of the network to ‘data’. Heck, the network has been all data now for twelve or thirteen years. The only part that isn’t one’s and zero’s is that last run of copper to the home.
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This article was originally published on October 15, 1998! The telephone network is being revolutionized as you read this. Sprint wants to push their ATM network all the way out to your home, and Qwest is implementing an all IP network which they claim is leapfrogging Frame Relay and even the ATM technology Sprint wants
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The article below was originally written and published September 1st, 1998! Late one recent night, I’m busy working on some presentation slides. A client wants to prepare their network for the video-to-the-desktop revolution. The solution is complex with many nuances and facets racing around in circles in my mind. I’m staring, with my focus going in
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