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Gartner Urges Caution on Windows Vista Networking
26 January 2007
 
Joe Skorupa   John Pescatore  

Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" promise to improve network performance and security. But the many changes in these operating systems present their own risks, so most firms shouldn't hurry to deploy them for networking benefits.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 Better Performance

1.1
    
 Long Fat Pipes
1.2
    
 Congested and High-Loss Links — Explicit Congestion Notification Support (RFC 3168)
1.3
    
 Improvements for High-Loss Environments
1.4
    
 Quality of Service
1.5
    
 Protocol Offload and Receive-Side Scaling

1.5.1
    
 Protocol Offload
1.5.2
    
 Receive-Side Scaling
1.6
    
 Improvements for Remote File Access Over WANs
2.0
    
 Better Error Detection and Correction

2.1
    
 Neighbor Unreachability Detection for IPv4 Neighbors
2.2
    
 Fail-Back Support for Default Gateway Changes
2.3
    
 PMTU Back Hole Router Detection
2.4
    
 TCP Extended Statistics MIB Support
2.5
    
 Network Diagnostics Wizard/Framework
3.0
    
 Dynamic Configuration of the Networking Components

3.1
    
 Elimination of Reboot Requirement
3.2
    
 Network Environments-Based Automatic Stack Configuration
4.0
    
 Integrated IPv4 and IPv6
5.0
    
 HTTP and SSL Kernel-Mode Support
6.0
    
 Integrated Compression
7.0
    
 Support for Internationalized Domain Names
8.0
    
 Network Awareness
9.0
    
 Peer-Oriented Networking — The End of NetMeeting

9.1
    
 PNRP v2
9.2
    
 People Near Me
9.3
    
 The End of NetMeeting
9.4
    
 Windows MeetingSpace/IPv6
10.0
    
 Network Security Enhancements

10.1
    
 Windows Firewall Improvement
10.2
    
 Server and Domain Isolation
11.0
    
 Windows Filtering Platform
12.0
    
 Microsoft Network Access Protection
13.0
    
 Windows Internet Computer Name
14.0
    
 Removal of Obsolete Technologies
15.0
    
 Overall Impact

    
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