Cisco's legal problems in Brazil; Cisco speeds up security device

NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Cisco's legal problems in Brazil: a timeline By Linda Leung and Brad Reese Cisco last week fired its former Vice President for Latin America Carlos Carnevali, Sr. (at left) after he was formally charged by Brazilian authorities with tax fraud and other crimes related to the alleged evasion of $845 million in import duties and other taxes. Read full story SPONSORED BY CISCO SYSTEMS Learn the Benefits of 802.11n Get a crash course in 802.11n, the IEEE's latest WLAN specification. The soon-to-be standard promises to boost performance, reliability and power efficiency across wireless LANs. And the technology also promises to be backward compatible with 802.11a, b and g. Learn more today. Download this whitepaper now. RELATED NEWS: Blog: Cisco's latest CTO comes with less-than-shining background Padmasree Warrior, former CTO at struggling Motorola, replaces Charlie Giancarlo as Cisco CTO. Cisco speeds up security device, 12/04/07 Cisco is introducing an intrusion-prevention sensor that is twice as fast its previous high-end device designed to protect high-speed connections to data centers and WAN links without slowing traffic. Why it's time to break out of the 'Cisco-is-the-only-vendor-for-me' mindset, 12/04/2007 For the last two newsletters (see here and here) we've heard the thoughts of Ben Goldman, Cisco's director of marketing, network systems, who ... Cisco confirms ability to eavesdrop on remote calls using its VoIP phones, 11/29/2007 Cisco confirmed it is possible to eavesdrop on remote conversations using Cisco VoIP phones. In its security response, Cisco says: "an attacker ... The Network World IT Buyer's Guides provide comprehensive, detailed information on how to select, test, buy and deploy thousands of network and IT products. 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