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ATM adapters give backbone to servers and nets -

A synchronous transfer mode adapters are great for the backbone, but they're not ready for the desktop. Deployed on a WAN, backbone or desktop, ATM is becoming the big gun of bandwidth. When National Software Testing Laboratories Inc. looked at the newest crop of PCI 155-megabit/sec ATM adapters, it found several useful server cards. But no vendor has yet mastered the formula for bringing ATM to the desktop. The prices of some adapters exceed the

Digital Government

About to buy a firewall? Read this first

Guarding publicly accessible areas such as World Wide Web sites is as important as protecting an internal network. So managers need something between these areas. That's where a firewall comes in. A firewall's job is to enforce a network access policy by monitoring all traffic going to or from the network. The firewall should let through only the traffic authorized by the security policy and should itself be immune to attack.