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7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful

The IETF last Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 31 March, 2009 12:24

Tags: Cisco, Internet Architecture Board, Multiprotocol Label Switching, United States, verizon

Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing

When Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its New England Development Center last year - a ceremony attended by Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and a representative from Gov. Deval Patrick’s office - the company was quietly preparing to move several jobs from there and other locations to contractors in India and elsewhere, mostly in the company's Network Management Technology Group (NMTG).

By Jim Duffy | 13 March, 2009 10:26

Tags: Cisco, data centres, outsourcing

Top 10 Ethernet switching stories of 2008

In terms of significant announcements, 2008 did not disappoint in Ethernet switching: Juniper entered the market, Cisco unveiled its next-generation platform, and other major vendors consolidated. It will be hard for 2009 to match. Here's a countdown of the top 10 stories for the year soon to pass.

By Jim Duffy | 28 December, 2008 08:16

Tags: Cisco, juniper networks, networking

Juniper WXC 1800 speeds WAN traffic

Speeding up the delivery of applications and data to remote users is the No. 1 goal of WAN acceleration and optimization. Not only does it help get more done over the same amount of bandwidth -- or less -- but WAN optimization appliances reduce response times and overcome latency inherent to long-distance WAN links. Using a combination of file- and byte-segment caching, TCP optimizations, and application-specific acceleration, WAN acceleration appliances help move the data that drives business.

By Keith Schultz | 03 November, 2008 10:31

Tags: cisco wae, juniper networks, networking hardware

Ethernet data center standards just the start

Even though strides are being made to define standards for extending Ethernet to handle data center applications, these advances will not be a panacea, vendors say.

By Jim Duffy | 21 October, 2008 08:25

Tags: Ethernet

8 pieces of cool WiMAX gear

Gadgets and devices that will help you connect to WiMAX.

By Brad Reed | 10 October, 2008 12:00

Tags: WiMax

College dropout is one-man IT shop — at college lab

Meet Justin King — the one-man IT shop. At the 5-year-old Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, IT plays a key role in innovative research involving fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machines.

Wi-Fi tweaks for speed freaks

One thing you can depend on these days is that the claims made for wireless routers, like 300Mbit/sec. throughput and 1,000-foot range, are nothing more than digital pipe dreams. The plain and simple truth is that these speeds and distances just aren't going to happen in your home, office or any place on this planet.

By Brian Nadel | 21 August, 2008 11:29

Tags: antenna, repeater, router, wi-fi, wireless, wireless and wired network installations

Inside Cisco's Mobility Services Engine

A closer look at Cisco's new wireless network appliance

The network behind the Venetian resort

How 10G and VLANs keep the Las Vegas casino running

Secure your network

Network security can be a thorny issue for small businesses because they generally lack pricey equipment and dedicated IT people who have the expertise to lock down a local area network. But addressing security is nevertheless essential: Just one customer data breach could easily wipe out a small business, and constantly battling viruses, spyware, and spam can sap employee productivity.

Inside Lockheed Martin's wireless security lab

Jason Crawford has learned that if you want to break into secure Wi-Fi networks, you don't need to buy equipment from the black market. Instead, you can buy it from Toys "R" Us, he says.

Cisco Q3 report card: Lots of A's and B's

Cisco on Tuesday posted a solid third quarter, with revenues and earnings slightly better than Wall Street expectations. But the company was challenged in some product and geographical areas, and Cisco also felt the impact of softness in the US and European enterprise markets.

Can ACLs and NAC mix for security success?

Most network equipment vendors are ready to up the ante in terms of how their gear can control access in a NAC deployment.

What's hot at Interop 2008

A summary of new offerings to be introduced at the big network industry conference.

WLAN overcomes despair in the T5 departure lounge

London's Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is in many ways a controversial building. However, there's no denying the grandiose scale of the £4.3 billion project. Britain's largest free-standing building, it contains a mega-shopping complex, an advanced baggage handling system... and a nifty wireless LAN.

University gives top marks to virtual cell Wi-Fi

When the University of Birmingham upgraded its core network a few years ago, it set in course a train of events that would lead to it becoming one of the UK's largest - and yet secure - campus wireless LANs.

Cisco IOS vs. Juniper JUNOS: Technical differences

Two of the major features that distinguish Cisco's IOS and Juniper Networks' JUNOS operating systems are their heritage and number of versions on the market. The third is their architecture.

Cisco, Juniper duke it out over operating systems

Juniper Networks makes lots of hay about its single-operating-system approach to high-performance networking -- saying that using JUNOS across its routing, switching and other application-specific platforms lowers cost and eases operations and management.

SonicWall smashes speed records

Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation unified threat management firewall appliance geared for the enterprise. In our exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500, results show that SonicWall has, indeed, crashed through the speed barrier.