Remember when the internet was just nascent and telecoms were investing heavily in expanding and upgrading their network infrastructure to support internet connectivity? They laid fiber-optic cables, ...

In a subterranean labyrinth of aging pipes and bundled wires stretching for miles in every direction, these engineers are trying to make this city's densely packed communications networks less ...

If Sept. 11, 2001, was a wake-up call for government officials about the state of the nation’s emergency communications, so was last year’s Hurricane Katrina, which offers many lessons about how to ...

Everywhere you turn the buzz is about wireless LANs. Companies are deploying them in warehouses, branch offices and even boardrooms. But it’s important to remember that the technology is only as good ...

Networking pro Greg Schaffer was stumped when he couldn't solve a connectivity problem and initially told his client it wasn't a networking issue. Then he checked again. Several years ago, a new ...