D-Link adapters run Ethernet over coax D-Link this week unveiled a kit for running Ethernet over coaxial cables - the kind of cables that typically carry cable-TV signals to different rooms of your house.

Special Cisco Networkers Contest Blogger Michael Morris reveals the vendor with the prettiest badge reader and other little known facts about the conference.

HP ProCurve delivers Gigabit Ethernet to SMBs, 06/24/2008 HP ProCurve this week unveiled Gigabit Ethernet switches for the small/medium business market.

Turning IPv6 Off Glenn Weadock: If your organization isn't using IPv6, or any applications that demand it, you may find that your Longhorn boxes are using a bit more network bandwidth than necessary.

All’s well with U.S. broadband deployment Earlier this month, the FCC finally got around to releasing the U.S. broadband deployment report it approved in March. This fifth in a series "examining the availability of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans" is just as silly as its predecessors. But the report and accompanying order (and further notice for proposed rule-making) on data collection about broadband data services may mean, assuming that the data they get is reasonably analyzed, that future reports may be a bit less silly.

IPv6: Do you need it? The pressure to convert to IPv6 seems to be off, but that's an illusion says blogger Glenn Weadock.

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