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Ethernet, cellular hubs and CDNs at the Democratic National Convention.
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As of this morning, the FAA said flights around the country were not longer being delayed after a...
Major League Baseball has installed a video setup and secure telephone links in all 30 stadiums in...
Expect to see a whole lot more Internet-oriented coverage of the Olympics next time around by NBC...
WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks taps $8.5 million for R&D ...1
Your E911 strategy, remote access policies and more depend on examining what "communication" means ...1
Foundry Networks this week unleashed a series of Carrier Ethernet edge/aggregation switches...
The last newsletter noted that Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of...
How are WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors faring in today's economic...
I've previously written about how the rise of wireless LAN equipment using the IEEE 802.11n...
Alcatel-Lucent is delivering a new family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that fit into its... ...5
The Zambia Association for Research and Development is aiming to help women's organizations by... ...1
A network failure at a Georgia facility is being blamed for multiple flight delays across the... ...3
Adtran rolled out a series of Ethernet switches for the SMB market that are more power efficient,...
MTN and Zain Zambia have refused to share infrastructure in a quest to expand to rural areas of...
Of all the record-breaking Olympic moments we've seen this summer - Michael Phelps winning... ...3
Light Reading has keyed in on Wall Street rumors that Cisco might be looking to buy Brocade, which in turn recently caused quite a stir in the networking world with its proposed acquisition of Foundry Networks.
Preview articleComment"Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf published his latest thoughts on the future of the network in The Observer. Still pushing that interplanetary Internet, but he talks about other advancements in store as well.
Preview articleCommentBrocade told The Register that it plans to introduce Fibre-Channel-over-Ethernet server adapters and an FCoE switch in the first half of next year.
Preview articleCommentInformationWeek blogger Roger Smith talks to Mike Bennett, senior network engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, about the value he sees in the IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet initiative.
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Back on July 8 the CCIE Number stood at 21419, it reached 21809 on August 20, this increase of 390 new CCIEs divided by 43 days, works out to an average of 9 newly minted CCIEs per day. 21809 - CCIE Number as of August 20 2008 1024 - Beginning CCIE Number issued August...
The last newsletter noted that Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of application performance...
I've previously written about how the rise of wireless LAN equipment using the IEEE 802.11n standard is becoming a force...
Flat IT budgets and lean IT staffs are making it challenging for organizations to effectively manage a growing number of...

If you're thinking the economy is doing very poorly right now, I would argue that you have given in to the media and... 1

Translation Patterns in CUCM are very similar to Route Patterns, but they do not have a Call Routing destination. Route...

I discussed in the previous post how candidate configurations, explicit commits, and rollbacks greatly increase the...

Cisco Systems has announced the elimination of the Linksys channel program, and the intent to fold as many as 20,000 channel...
Listen to this webcast, "The WAN Optimization Landscape for Disaster Recovery," to learn how you can better protect your data while giving your network a performance boost. Find out how application acceleration, data deduplication and network optimization tools will help you reach this goal

Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a...
Implementing HA at the Enterprise Data Center Edge to Connect to a Large Number of Branch OfficesThis paper reviews the problem of creating a network where the dynamic availability of services is...
Enterprise Data Center Network Reference ArchitectureUsing a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data...

WAN Ethernet services are reliable, cost-efficient offerings that are widely available and in a...
Keeping Spam at BayThe editors of Network World bring you this informative compilation of news, trends, analysis,...
Get More From Your WANDownload this Network World Executive Guide and get information that details how real-world...

The standard for Power over Ethernet (PoE), IEEE Std. 802.3af(tm)-2003, advanced networking,...
How to cut IT costs with wide-area data services (WDS)Discover how you can realize dramatic cost savings with Wide-area Data Services in this new webcast...
Protecting assets and employees with IP Video SurveillanceLearn from the experts how to leverage your existing network and implement an appropriate solution...
Learn how to simplify your branch infrastructure while dramatically increasing app performance with Citrix Branch Repeater.
Free Guide: "Next Gen Load Balancing: 8 Things You Need to Handle Today's Network Traffic" shows you the functionality needed in your next load balancer.
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