Biotech firm plans all-Catalyst 6500 net; Gigabit wireless - in all kinds of weather

LANs News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Force10 Networks, Inc. Reliable Networking: Making the Network Work for You Visit Force10 Networks at Interop 2007 and see how our product portfolio of switches and routers delivers the reliability, control and scalability required to ensure your network is ready for emerging applications and can flexibly respond to changing requirements. Join us and enter our drawing for a Best Buy shopping spree! To learn more click here Network World's LANs News Alert, 05/07/07 Biotech firm plans all-Catalyst 6500 net, 05/01/07:  Biotech researchers strive for consistent, predictable results in their work —deviation and outliers are the enemy. This concept is trickling down from the labs into the campus LAN under construction at PDL BioPharma. The Fremont, Calif., biotech company is standardizing on Catalyst 6500 switches at every layer of the LAN as it builds its new corporate headquarters. Foundry packs Gigabit, 10G power into small switches, 05/04/07:  Foundry Networks this week launched two Gigabit-to-the-desktop LAN switches with optional 10G uplinks, targeted at enterprises with growing bandwidth needs and slim IT budgets. Slideshow: Foundry's small switch with big bandwidth, 05/04/07:  Take a closer look at Foundry Networks' two Gigabit-to-the-desktop LAN switches with optional 10G uplinks, targeted at enterprises with growing bandwidth needs and slim IT budgets. Email: A Security Update Join John Dix, Network World editor-in-chief, and Trent Henry, senior analyst at The Burton Group, as they discuss the challenges and solutions network IT pros are encountering when working to ensure inbox integrity and protect data. Click here for more information. From Cisco Subnet: Enter to win Routing TCP/IP Vols I and II:  We have 15 copies each of both volumes of Jeff Doyle's Routing TCP/IP book, renowned as a must-have resource for network managers troubleshooting IP routing problems, to give away. Also, check out Jeff's blog at Cisco Subnet. LANs & Routers Newsletter: Gigabit wireless - in all kinds of weather, 05/01/07:  BridgeWave Communications this week introduced a line of gigabit-speed wireless products that the company says hold up no matter what the weather conditions.

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