Friday, December 14, 2007

Cisco opens up IOS - Is it on its way to becoming a true software company?

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THIS WEEK'S TOP PICK: Cisco opens up IOS - Is it on its way to becoming a true software company?

Just a day after Juniper announced the opening up of its JUNOS operating system, Cisco announced similar plans to open up is venerable IOS routing software to third-party developers. The move will be the foundation for its metamorphosis into a software company. Backed by a dedicated software group that was formed last week, Cisco officials are now tinkering with making IOS more than just a platform for Cisco-developed services in the network, reports , who is at Cisco's C-Scape conference this week. Cisco plans to "componentize" IOS – developing only one implementation of a specific function instead of several, depending on the image - dynamically link IOS services and move the software onto a Unix-based kernel. Read more.

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Cisco open IOS announcement dismissed as vaporware by Vyatta's Dave Roberts The announcement that Cisco will open up IOS was dismissed as mere vaporware by Dave Roberts - vice president of open source networking vendor - Vyatta in ...

Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: Shooting holes in my QoS and CIPT time estimatesToday I'm going to begin taking a stab at estimating the time it takes to prep for both the QoS and CIPT exams. I picked those 2 CCVP exams because they sit at opposite ends of the skill spectrum for CCVP. I'll give a little of my rationale, and a few perspectives on self-study resources. Your job will be to tell me where you think I'm off base on the estimate and where you think its pretty close.

Michael Morris From the Field:Creating a Whole New Industry?? | NetworkWorld.com Community
Cisco announced today it is opening up IOS to third-party developers. I think this could create a whole new industry of small software companies extending IOS. With APIs into IOS, other software companies could develop code that runs directly on the router.

Jamey Heary: Cisco Security Expert: Cisco VPN gateways support the iPhoneSo you have your shiny cool new iPhone. You’re addicted to their very cool web browser. Now you want to be able to surf to your internal home or corporate networks using VPN right? The embedded iPhone VPN client works over both Wi-Fi and EDGE network connections. Good news, both the Cisco IOS routers and the ASA appliance support this. In fact, they’ve supported it all along. Here are some of the geeky details and how to set it up.

Author Expert: Mark Lewis: Preventing IPsec VPN failures: recommendations (part 1)Well, based on a number of emails I have received, some people were quite surprised to learn in my first blog post that poorly designed and configured IPsec VPNs are vulnerable not only to the NSA and GCHQ, but also to pretty much anyone with minimal technical skills and the ability to read instructions. So I thought I'd follow up over the next couple of blogs posts with a few recommendations to help you avoid the pitfalls that I described in my previous post.

Joe Chapman's Network Training Edge: So what do I choose?Considering the number of different options and the features that they may support, the Metro Ethernet service options you have could be quite large. Fortunately, most providers don't really want to offer you a too many options since it typically means more maintenance for them. However, this doesn't mean that we can't consider what they might be and how we might use them.

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