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Funk Software

Funk Software was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and active from 1982 to 2005. The company was founded in 1982 by Paul Funk. Funk was later acquired by Juniper Networks in 2005 for US$122 million. The company first became well known in the late 80's for its product Sideways, which allowed users to print wide spreadsheets on dot matrix printers. Dot matrix printing was the primary printing technology at that time. Funk Software later became a provider of network access security solutions for networks of any size, from enterprise to operator, wired or wireless. The company's products were security related and they were grouped as a family of RADIUS/AAA and WLAN security products. These types of network security products allow an organization to enforce a uniform security policy across all network access methods, including WLAN, remote/VPN, dial, and identity-based (wired 802.1X - also referred to as a supplicant based authentication system) - with the performance and reliability to handle any traffic load, and with full support for any network infrastructure. Funk Software's customers included many of the world's largest corporations, institutions, telecommunications carriers, and internet service providers (ISPs); its products are licensed or resold by numerous leading manufacturers of Internet hardware and software.…

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Funk Software was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and active from 1982 to 2005. The company was founded in 1982 by Paul Funk. Funk was later acquired by Juniper Networks in 2005 for US$122 million. The company first became well known in the late 80's for its product Sideways, which allowed users to print wide spreadsheets on dot matrix printers. Dot matrix printing was the primary printing technology at that time. Funk Software later became a provider of network access security solutions for networks of any size, from enterprise to operator, wired or wireless. The company's products were security related and they were grouped as a family of RADIUS/AAA and WLAN security products. These types of network security products allow an organization to enforce a uniform security policy across all network access methods, including WLAN, remote/VPN, dial, and identity-based (wired 802.1X - also referred to as a supplicant based authentication system) - with the performance and reliability to handle any traffic load, and with full support for any network infrastructure. Funk Software's customers included many of the world's largest corporations, institutions, telecommunications carriers, and internet service providers (ISPs); its products are licensed or resold by numerous leading manufacturers of Internet hardware and software.…

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  1. date of foundation: 1982 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1982". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373145405

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