Five challenges for Cisco; Extreme Networks all over Interop

LANs News Alert Force10 Networks, Inc. Building the Reliable Business Network Join Force10 Networks, our strategic partners and guest speaker Abner Germanow, director of IDCs enterprise networks services for an event that highlights the application and data trends that are driving the need for reliability and flexibility through the business network. Learn more or register for this complimentary best practices seminar! Network World's LANs News Alert, 05/21/07 Five challenges for Cisco:  Ahead of this week's Interop in Las Vegas, TechIQ's the VAR Guy has posted what he believes are five threats to Cisco's empire. Vendors look to gear up infrastructure customers, 05/21/07:  At Interop this week, products from Foundry and Nortel are expected to take their shots at Cisco, F5 and others in the WAN routing, application acceleration, and data center switching arenas while Avaya and 3Com will launch gear designed to bolster customers’ VoIP and security implementations. LANs & Routers Newsletter: Extreme Networks all over Interop, 05/17/07:  Extreme Networks once again is figuring prominently at the Interop trade show, with demonstrations, participation in the CSO Boot Camp, and implementation ... Executive Guide - VoIP: No Turning Back Discover how real-work enterprises are deploying VoIP via several case studies Click here for more information. Cisco routers caused major outage in Japan: report, 05/16/07:  Cisco routers were the source of a major outage May 15 in an NTT network in Japan, according to an investment firm bulletin. CCIEs: Too much of a good thing?:  Brad Reese on Cisco writes: What moves some to go for multiple CCIE certifications? Earth-friendly computing tips:  Join in the discussions on Green Your Network's blog about ways to retire old equipment with minimum impact on the environment. LANs & Routers Newsletter: Looking ahead to Interop, 05/15/07:  Interop Las Vegas 2007 is almost upon us, and it looks like it will continue to act as the flagship trade show for the networking industry this year. Force10 says it has Cisco Catalyst killer, 05/14/07:  Force10 Networks this week launched a mid-range Ethernet switch chassis aimed at taking on boxes such as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Foundry Networks' Super X series at the LAN edge and aggregation layer.

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