Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle writes about how much the world has changed in a single generation. In writing about his dad he says, "After the war he joined Southern Bell Telephone Company, and worked there his entire career. The Phone Company has, by extension, always been a part of my life. ... my father never gave up trying to equate what I was doing with what he once did. He could never quite accept my explanation that IP networks were more like electronic postal systems than telephone systems."
Computer products distributor Tech Data announced that it has opened a new hands-on center filled with Cisco networking and collaboration gear. The center allows resellers and channel partners to try out, test, integrate and otherwise get to know some of Cisco's latest emerging technologies. A story o
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Communications Manager 6.1. The service is available immediately to customers in the United States and many European countries, and a launch is planned in the Asia-Pacific region early next year, 
Australia, who says his employer received a CD for a new Cisco VPN gear that contained not some "boring software" but an "audio disk with 12 tracks of Spanish music." Dave has also posted a 
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CCIE water cooler gossip: USA tops in October worldwide CCIE count
by Brad Reese
What a difference a month can make. For example, just last month 100% of the world's CCIE growth occurred outside the USA. However this month the red, white and blue came out on top by capturing 21% of the growth with 51 CCIEs: 5,076 - 5,025 Comparing October 2008
