Cisco and IBM join the Navy

Cisco and IBM joined the Navy last week, in an attempt to bring networking technology to the US Navy's 21st century destroyer battleship. The companies will be working in conjunction with the DD 21 Blue Team to create a 'smart ship'.

Cisco and IBM joined the Navy last week, in an attempt to bring networking technology to the US Navy's 21st century destroyer battleship. The companies will be working in conjunction with the DD 21 Blue Team to create a 'smart ship'. The result, they claim, will be 70 per cent fewer crew members needed to operate a destroyer. Meanwhile there was bad news for Microsoft, the makers of PowerPoint, as the US military banned the use of over-elaborate presentations on its networks. It appears PowerPoint-based military briefings, featuring explosions and animated tanks, were using up so much bandwidth that mission-critical communications networks had slowed to a crawl.