Cody Taylor

An anonymous reader sends word of a new cybersecurity project to defend US networks from attacks and strengthen the government’s “offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare.” Right now, the most likely candidate to lead the project is the Director of the NSA, Keith Alexander, who was quick to assert that the NSA itself wouldn’t try to run the whole show (something they’ve been criticized for in the past). Quoting the Wall Street Journal: “Cyber defense is the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibility, so the command would be charged with assisting that department’s defense efforts. The relationship would be similar to the way Northern Command supports Homeland Security with rescue capabilities in natural disasters. The NSA, where much of the government’s cybersecurity expertise is housed, established a similar relationship with Homeland Security through a cybersecurity initiative that the Bush administration began in its final year.”

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stinkymountain writes “Pre-standard 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products — server network interface cards, switch uplinks and switches — are expected to hit the market later this year. Standards-compliant products are expected to ship in the second half of next year, not long after the expected June 2010 ratification of the 802.3ba standard. Despite the global economic slowdown, global revenue for 10G fixed Ethernet switches doubled in 2008, according to Infonetics. There is pent-up demand for 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, says John D’Ambrosia, chair of the 802.3ba task force in the IEEE and a senior research scientist at Force10 Networks. ‘There are a number of people already who are using link aggregation to try and create pipes of that capacity,’ he says. ‘It’s not the cleanest way to do things…(but) people already need that capacity.’ D’Ambrosia says even though 40/100G Ethernet products haven’t arrived yet, he’s already thinking ahead to terabit Ethernet standards and products by 2015. ‘We are going to see a call for a higher speed much sooner than we saw the call for this generation’ of 10/40/100G Ethernet, he says.”

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Overall, the drive is a pretty good performer at a very attractive price.

narramissic links to IT World’s A Layman’s Guide to Bandwidth Pricing, writing “Time Warner Cable has, for now, abandoned the tiered pricing trials that raised the ire of Congressman Eric Massa, among others. And, as some nice data points in a New York Times article reveal, it’s good for us that they did. For instance, Comcast says it costs them .85 per home to double the internet capacity of a neighborhood. But the bit of the Times article that we should commit to memory is this:’If all Time Warner customers decided one day not to check their e-mail or download a single movie, the company’s costs would be no different than on a day when every customer was glued to the screen watching one YouTube video after another.'”

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A new report is backing rumors of Voice Dialing support inside betas of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Software but adds that capability may be just one of several features included in a new Voice Services framework that may also facilitate voice control of the new OS.