The flaw is part of the plight of any large, incumbent vendor. Due to the company's sheer size, these vulnerabilities crop up more often than with vendors that have much smaller installed bases.

It'll be the middle to the end of 2006 before companies have NAC up and running within the switch environment. 2006 will be the major year of getting your infrastructure up to date and defining your networking policies.

That's pretty good considering how many moving parts this technology has. NAC helps you keep the bad guys off your network.

They've always been known as a good engineering company.

Nortel should be able to bounce back.... But I'm not sure we're going to see any huge growth numbers anytime soon.

NAC is an ecosystem; it's not a particular set of technologies.

NAC is a security trend for sure, but it's only as good as the policies you create. You can start with a partial solution and work your way to a full deployment.

People often forget about management tools when they're building a new network or looking at the one they have. Most hardware vendors provide management software with their products these days, but there is a whole tier of software that can give visibility into the network as a whole.

Mainstream folks don't typically have a large number of remote access users.

There are ways to reduce you operational burden if you do it from the beginning. The no-no is not planning or budgeting for it.