Michael Howard
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne CH PC QCis a British politician who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He had previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 July 1941
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The decline of multi-service switches and the rise of core and edge routers are a sign of the times.
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There's a great desire, at a time when the country faces such great danger, to work together. We're all in this together, and we all believe it's very important to show that the country is united in response to the danger we face, and we hope that it will be possible to reach agreement on further measures that will enable us to deal with this threat more effectively.
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Proof of Concept testing is a critical step in the design and development process, helping to get the design job done right the first time. No vendor can afford to let customers detect problems after the switches and routers are deployed on an enterprise backbone. Neither can manufacturers afford unnecessary delays in going to market.
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Based on our recent service provider studies, we see an intertwining of MPLS and Ethernet -- most providers of metro services are using or planning MPLS as a standard approach for augmenting and scaling their Layer 2 services. A cost-effective solution that has a mix of Layer 2, routing, and MPLS capabilities will help give these service providers the flexibility to expand their customer reach and increase revenue.
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did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.
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What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
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If this government has got an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has got to go. There is no excuse for this devastating failure to protect the public.
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If this government has an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has to go.
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One of the principle objectives of the terrorists is to divide us, one from another. So far ... they have failed in that objective. It's important that they continue to fail in that objective. That's why we believe it is so important that we approach these difficult issues in a spirit of consensus, with the objective of reaching agreement wherever we possibly can.
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SHA-1 is currently showing some signs of weakness and may be completely insecure in the next few years. Since customers will use Microsoft products for more than two to three years, it's important we protect them by working now to improve the security of code for the future and banning the SHA-1 algorithm is a step in that direction.
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More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.
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I did notice there were some definite morale issues which definitely affected me and affected me wanting to stay there.
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What Gordon Brown has done is attempt to sabotage this report before it is even published. We should allow Lord Turner to present his report and then debate his findings in a proper and constructive way and a way that will try to aim for consensus, but that is not Gordon Brown's way of doing things.
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We have seen the slow seepage of his authority turn into a hemorrhage.