Cisco TelePresence inside your home in three years

Cisco News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Riverbed Technology Bring the world closer with Riverbed Accelerate your Cisco networks up to 100 times faster. And take your apps, VoIP, video, and QoS to the next level. Discover how over 2500 Cisco customers bring their world closer with Riverbed. Get the "ESG Lab Field Audit". Network World's Cisco News Alert, 09/07/07 Welcome to the Friday edition of Network World's Cisco News Alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your gateway to Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, giveaways and more. Enjoy! * TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Cisco TelePresence inside your home in three years Here's something to ask your family for for the holidays in a couple of years - a scaled down version of Cisco's TelePresence system. Cisco expects to take its TelePresence high-definition conferencing system from the boardroom to the living room within two or three years for about $1,000. The consumer TelePresence will use one screen - the consumer's own large HDTV - and will be designed so that anyone can install it with ease. Would the price spur you on to replace that little Webcam you have on your PC? Let us know. Network World VoIP and Convergence Buyers Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will quickly help you pinpoint the hardware or software you need to build out a converged voice and data network. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyers Guide now. ALSO: Cisco issues security alerts for content switching and video surveillance gear French ISP fires up Cisco's 16-slot CRS-1 router Cisco paints the bigger picture - to shift more routers Cisco legitimizes pre-standard 802.11n wireless LAN gear * FROM OUR BLOGGERS: Brad Reese on Cisco: Cisco partner jobs portal fails Brad Reese on Cisco test Cumbersome and just plain awkward to use, the new Cisco partner jobs portal has failed the Brad Reese on Cisco test. Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: OPNET's New IPv6 Planning and Operations Module OPNET recently released a new IPv6 Planning and Operations module with several facilities for facilitating IPv6 implementations. This module is an add-on to its IT Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Network Planner modeling applications. (The IT Guru and SP Guru are functionally identical with the exception that the Service Provider version can model MPLS.) Author Expert Wendell Odom: How soon do you “show run”? Today I thought it’d be interesting to talk about troubleshooting. It’s always been an interest of mine, ever since my first real computer jobs included the 2 AM phone calls saying “Uhhh, Wendell, the network’s been busted since your changes happened – can you please come fix it?” At least they usually said please, being down in the deep South. Ah, you know it’s a real support job when know the people who work the midnight to 8AM shift in the NOC better than the folks in your own department. But I digress – troubleshooting matters more today with the new CCNA exam, so it’s probably worth a little discussion. Author Expert Jamey Heary: Cisco NAC Appliance Server gets integrated into the Cisco ISR routers Starting with Cisco NAC Appliance (NACA) release 4.1.2 a new Network Module (NM) hardware platform has been released. You can finally run the Cisco NAC Appliance Server on a Network Module platform that fits into the Cisco ISR router series (2800, 3800). The NACA NM can support up to 100 simultaneous users, perfect for smaller remote and branch offices. It comes in two sizes, a 50 user or a 100 user model. The 50 user is upgradeable to the 100 user via a software license key. ChannelSurfing with Ken Presti: Cisco and UNEDA Should Talk So with all the buzz around Telepresence and all of the next-generation visions and roadmaps, who’d have guessed that one of the most interesting debates around Cisco these days would be about gear that’s already been ripped and replaced? Michael Morris' Notes from the Field: Making BGP Our Core Enterprise Routing Protocol Over his last few blog posts, Jeff Doyle has been extolling the virtues of BGP and providing design tips. While I don't portend to have Jeff's knowledge about BGP, I have always been a huge fan of the protocol. My affection for BGP has grown in the last few years as we have used it as the core routing protocol for our internal, enterprise network. HOT DISCUSSIONS AMONG CISCO SUBNET READERS: Cisco prepares written exams for pilot certifications Cisco this month rolls out the beta of its written exams for its latest certifications – the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE). In addition to Cisco's plans for an elite architecture-level certification, some readers believe this will cannibalize the current high status of the CCIE certifications. What do you think? Cisco legitimizes pre-standard 802.11n wireless LAN gear Cisco launched a two-radio access point based on the draft IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard. Duke University has already deployed the new Cisco Aironet 1250 AP in one campus dormitory for evaluation. One reader believes there are still technical issues that the APs need to overcome. Cisco Self-Defending Network still a work-in-progress Cisco SDN: A Cisco marketecture or an important strategy for securing converged networks. One reader is not impressed. FREEBIES, GIVEAWAYS AND OTHER NOTABLES: *Enter to Win a Cisco Press Book: Up for grabs are 15 copies of Wendell Odom's book "," a comprehensive review and practice package for the latest CCNA exams.. Details here. Get a sneak peek of a chapter from one of the books here. * Read a free chapter of "CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide" by Wendell Odom. Free excerpt: Chapter 7: IP Version 6. * Check out Cisco Subnet's library for more free chapters from Cisco Press books. * Enter to win a Skyline-ATS training course of your choice worth up to $3,495. Details here. * Show us your home lab and win a prize: Inspired by our readers' the mostly negative comments to a CCIE's $2.3M home lab, we're offering our readers to put their money where their mouths are and show us their home labs. The best wins some fabulous prizes. Details here.

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