Juniper feels growing pains; 4 tips for building a better wireless network

LANs News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Force10 Networks, Inc. Building the Reliable Business Network Gain insight from enterprises around the world who rely on Force10 Networks high performance Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers to delivery the reliability, network control and scalability needed for supporting application flexibility, investment protection, and lower total cost of ownership. Click here to learn more. Network World's LANs News Alert, 06/18/07 Juniper feels growing pains, 06/11/07:  Juniper Networks continues to challenge Cisco but faces growing pains in the enterprise network and core routing markets. Four tips for building a better wireless network:  Experts share their surefire ways for optimizing a WLAN architecture and boosting application performance. Lawsuits, founder threaten to derail Inter-Tel acquisition, 06/14/07:  Several class action lawsuits and a revolt by the founder threaten to derail a proposed $732 million acquisition of IP communications company Inter-Tel. Sign up for Network Worlds e-dition Youll receive all the news, testing and expert analysis included in the magazine, but with the added benefits of simple navigation via a live Table of Contents; keyword searches to quickly get find the information you need; direct links to additional online information and resources; and much more.. Click here to subscribe. Free Microsoft Virtual Server and a demand for SoftGrid: Microsoft Subnet blogger John Obeto lists a host of improvements that make the latest release of Virtual Server worth a look-see. While you’re at it, check out his post on SoftGrid for Windows Vista. If you manage a fair amount of Microsoft licenses, “there is absolutely no reason why you should not be a subscriber to Microsoft’s Licensing and Software Assurance programs,” he advocates. Today at Cisco Subnet:  We welcome back Routing TCP/IP author Jeff Doyle as a regular blogger to Cisco Subnet. In his return blog, he examines EIGRP vs. OSPF, and in future postings will discuss IP infrastructure best practices for current and future networks. Meanwhile, the Brad Reese on Cisco blog wonders whether Cisco certification candidates are forced to cheat as there appears to be a lack of training materials for certain Cisco exams; and Author Expert Denise Donohue wonders whether we'll be using all-VoIP in our homes in the future. Plus: Cisco has cash and services to give away; Cisco's end-to-end IPTV package for service providers impresses testers; and blogger Chris Kasten figures out how to get a Cisco VPN Concentrator to establish a LAN-to-LAN tunnel with a Symantec firewall - after working 7 hours on the problem.

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