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Nikkei Communications

March 15, 2007

Cover Story

To buy a product or to wait, that is the question; so let forecasting the trends in 9 hot fields tell us how the product will change in fiscal 2007

The products of network equipment in new fields are appearing in succession such as WAN higher-speed devices, application switches, authentication switches, and more. For this reason, this article selects the hot group of products and explains their trends in fiscal 2007 at once.

Higher speeds

WAN higher-speed devices

Application switches

Security

Authentication switches/bridges

Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances

Diversified access

Windows Mobile

Routers for small- and medium-sized sites

Remote access

Information sharing

SAN

Ultra high quality TV conference systems (Telepresense systems)

Special report

"Femtocell," the new trend of communication services seen in 3GSM, will change FMC

The technology that will substantially change the future of FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) services has emerged. It is "Femtocell" that can bring FMC services to a reality through normal cell phones. In 3GSM, leading venders enter the Femtocell market in succession. This article gets to the bottom of its capability.

Strategic network study

Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

The company constructs a sales support system for cell phones to allow its sales reps to understand every aspect of their customers and propose reform plans

cecile co., ltd.

The company adopts a bill collection system using cell phones, reducing cost with increased collection rate

Olympus Corporation

New Year annual speech by the president is delivered live to 17 sites at a cost of a few hundreds of thousands yen by using a Web conference system

Report

Google Desktop has a vulnerability which can lead to stolen local data

In fiscal 2007 plans for NTT East and NTT West, some uncertainty over "FTTH lines increase by 3.4 million" could be sensed

CATV carriers get serious about getting 2.5 GHz band for mobile WiMAX

"EV SSL" certificate, a serious phishing elimination measure, gets around camouflage of Web site

Equip enterprise networks with flexibility strong for environment change - Mr. John McCool, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Eye-catcher/new service

NEO JAPAN releases a Web mail server that downloads mail with IMAP4 and centrally manages them

Mobile Technika will launch a new IP telephony appliance that enables users to configure Asterisk in just 15 minutes

Google is committed to launching an office SaaS in Japan

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"First, we intend to compete against other carriers with a high-speed and flat-rate data communication service and a new terminal."

Mr. Haruo Taneno, President & COO, EMOBILE Ltd.

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

Technology for more sophisticated CATV

"DOCSIS," the standard technical specification is being standardized to provide 100 Megabit rates by binding 4 physical channels into one virtual channel and implement VPN comparable to wide-area Ethernet