In this podcast, Steve Hultquist, the team lead for the Network Access Control (NAC) Initiative in the Interop Labs, explains what his team is presenting at Interop New York.  The NAC Initiative is exploring the NAC frameworks from Microsoft, Cisco and Trusted Computing Group, and Hultquist tells a bit about what they've learned.

Tideway Systems develops a product called Foundation -- an appliance that plugs into the network, and then autodiscovers and catalogs all the IP-facing devices on it. Foundation can model enterprise networks from the perspective of business applications and services, right down into the technology layers. At Interop New York, Kosten Metreweli, Tideway's VP of Marketing & Alliances, explains how Foundation can help companies, and reveals a new managed service the company is announcing at Interop.

As a company, Augur Systems is 9 years old, but it's been flying under the radar most of that time. At Interop New York, the company is hoping to change that -- it's launching verion 4 of its event management and notification system. Augur 4 is designed to handle lots of events requiring the expertise of lots of people, and has a number of built-in tools for qualifying its alerts, as CEO Chris Janicki explains.

At Interop New York, Network General is launching its NetworkDNA initiative.  NetworkDNA is a suite of products that allow organizations to access, manage, and share network performance information. In this interview, James Messer, a technical marketing manager at Network General, explains what it's all about.

Four months ago at Interop Las Vegas, I sat down with Nortel and learned about their new line of secure routers -- a result of Nortel's acquisition of Tasman. This week at Interop New York, I caught up with Bob Reason again, and he told me about some companies that have rolled out these routers.  He also talked briefly about Nortel's new IPT 1-2-3 program -- a VoIP product bundle aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses.  Here's the interview.

Here's a conversation with Keith Vozel of Stampede, who describes his company's new Internet acceleration system.  Acceleration On-Demand, as it's called, automatically injects code into the data stream from an appliance, so no software needs to be installed by IT on users' machines. The result is performance increases for web applications and data bandwidth reductions.

In this interview, conducted at Interop New York 2006, Dwight Barker discusses two major announcements that Network Physics is making at the show related to its NetSensory line of application performance monitoring appliances. The new products offer real-time assessment of what's going on at the packet level on the network, which helps companies tune their networks for technologies such as VoIP and database-intensive applications.