Cisco puts focus on Web services, starting with AON

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Cisco puts focus on Web services, starting with AON, 06/27/05

Cisco used its annual customer conference last week to lay out
the first of six new technology focus areas that the company
plans to announce over the next year and half, as the company
looks to expand deeper into the data center.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062705-cisco.html?nl>

Cisco readies upgrade for 10000 series, 06/27/05

Cisco is expected to roll out the next generation of its 10000
series platform, which will include enhanced broadband
aggregation features and increased capacity as well as software
upgrades to provide a common release cycle to better align the
router ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlciscoalert2822>

Keeping your endpoints in line, 06/27/05

Setting and enforcing security policy on your network endpoints
could be key to making it through your next compliance audit. In
our Clear Choice Test of endpoint security products that provide
policy enforcement mechanisms, each product was required ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlciscoalert2823>

Beyond the basics of policy-based end point security, 06/27/05

Every product we tested offered features that went beyond our
baseline tests, and many of these features are worthy of
consideration.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlciscoalert2824>

Test: Keeping endpoint security secure, 06/27/05

Adding an endpoint security system to your network should not
open the network to attack. To that end, we evaluated the
overall security of each product by trying to poke holes into
the system via the client software, the server components and
the ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlciscoalert2825>

Q&A: Cisco's CTO on AON, data center future, 06/23/05

Cisco CTO Charles Giancarlo was on hand for this week's launch
of the company's Application Oriented Networking (AON)
technology. Giancarlo, who attended the Cisco Networkers event
in Las Vegas, talked about what AON is supposed to do and
discussed ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062305-cisco-aon.html?nl>

Newsletter: Cisco reaches up and out with AON, 06/23/05

Cisco's announcement this week of its Application-Oriented
Networking technology shows that the company sees it as more
than just something that does XML acceleration.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlciscoalert2826>
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