A Report From 2013
–SUGATA MITRA, HEAD (R&d), NIIT Editor’s Note On the 30th anniversary of DATAQUEST, we decided to publish a free flying article on the state of information technology in 2013. Out…
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Cry, My Beloved Country
The country was not prepared for the fairly surprising judgment of TRAI in sending the ISP policy back to DoT, and that too with barely 24 hours to go for…
Net-setting Our Lives
–MOHAN TAMBE, MD, INNOMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Fifteen years ago, the microprocessor era had just started and nobody could exactly predict how it would change the world. Nobody at that time visualized…
A Novel(l) Situation: Part II
What”s in a name? Well, nothing and everything. This was realized recently by Novell Inc., still the world”s largest NOS vendor. The company”s flagship product, its source of bread and…
Networking SupplementIs It Time To Switch?
In the early eighties, we began with single LANs, e.g. Ethernet and Token Ring, each creating its own unique computing ”island”. As we moved through the eighties, there was a…
Self-healing, Self-managing Networks-A Networking Nirvana?
Despite what the poets say, it is business that makes the world go round. And helping business go round better is the business communications infrastructure-the network. In a relatively short…