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Cisco Nexus 7000 aims for data center dominance and wins high marks for uptime, resiliency; throughput hindered by current line cards.
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Ipanema Technologies last month announced $7 million in new financing, earmarked for global...
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One of the most interesting areas of networking is the construction of a high-speed network for a...
Social-networking site provider Socialcast announced a "self-service" pricing model on Tuesday that...
Zambian Minister of Communication and Transport Dora Siliya has formed a committee to address the...
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The IEEE group working on "Green" Ethernet is expected to produce a draft spec this month, PC Magazine's Good Clean Tech says, quoting a potential 75% power savings in 10GBase-T.
Preview articleCommentAs metropolitan-area Ethernet continues to roll out, there needs to be a better way to test it. Communications Technology takes a look at the test-standards efforts by the ITU, IEEE and the Metro Ethernet Forum.
Preview articleCommentLight 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.
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NetQoS is offering a free tool, the NetQoS Latency Calculator to help network engineers ensure application performance across the WAN. The company claims this tool allows you to model network latency under a number of different scenarios. It models a client-server environment, where both client...

This blog will cover running CUCM and/or CUCME for a home lab environment. I put together my home lab over seven years ago... 1
We don't normally critique CIOs because we have a healthy appreciation of the difficulty of their job. That being said,... 2
Infonetics Research this week gave an update on the service-provider router market, which continued to grow at a rapid pace...
Troubleshooting IT problems among workers in branch offices is a challenge regardless of company size or IT sophistication.... 1

Cisco held a fun event that ended recently with winners announced in The Cisco Home Networking Contest. The rules seemed...

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...

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