| The hard and fast rules of renegotiating WAN contracts Today, we continue our discussion of the types of IT initiatives that will be popular in 2009. The last two newsletters on this topic discussed cutting WAN costs by moving to MPLS and by renegotiating with your WAN service provider. Today we'll continue our focus on renegotiating contracts. Ways to cut costs: Move to MPLS In recent newsletters here and here, we discussed some of the priorities that most IT organizations will have in 2009. We are going to use the next several newsletters to suggest additional IT initiatives, such as cost cutting and moving to newer technologies, that should garner a lot of attention in 2009 given the challenging economic environment. Tips for renegotiating with your WAN service provider Last time, we discussed a couple of ways that IT organizations can reduce their recurring WAN costs. Today, we'll focus on renegotiating contracts with WAN service providers. How to Improve Effective Throughput It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the effective throughput you think you are--and upgrading bandwidth won't help because technical and physical constraints stack the cards against you. We describe why this is and what you can do to about it in a free report you can download here--and Peter Sevcik will discuss it in an upcoming Webinar. Here's a quick synopsis. Router roll call Need an access router? Use our revamped Product Guide to compare access routers and get in-depth Network World reviews. Brad Reese on Cisco: Cisco to release February 2009 edition of its product quick reference guide The newest Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide, scheduled for release on Feb. 16, is available now for pre-ordering. Book review: Did I successfully teach myself TCP/IP in 24 hours? A sysadmin and a TCP/IP novice review the book Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 hours. Dell, Cisco: Frenemies? Cisco and Dell have extended their global Solution Technology Integrator agreement to include Cisco's Nexus 5020 data center switching systems with Dell server and storage products. How will this relationship proceed once Cisco launches its blade servers? Could Cisco EnergyWise kill the thriving used Cisco gear market? Cisco's EnergyWise, its free IOS software upgrade that will allow Catalyst switches to manage the energy consumption of networked IP devices - and eventually building system assets - will not be available to customers of used or refurbished Cisco switches unless they relicense with Cisco. Wall Street trims back Cisco Q2 expectations Tech Trader Daily is reporting that some analysts have trimmed back predictions for Cisco's Q2 earnings, which the company will report on Feb. 4. Searching for the digital needle in a relational hackstack Let me share a few of the tools I use to help customers identify their possible exposure to information theft. Cisco Data Center "Big Bang" Announcement - YYYAAWWNNN..... Cisco's Data Center "Blast" or "Big Bang" announcement is in one word - YAWN. I will probably blog about EnergyWise and the Nexus 2000 soon because they are good ideas and good technology. But this is not a "Big Bang" or "Blast". What do you need to hook up Cisco TelePresence at home? Ever wanted to set up Cisco TelePresence in your own home? One blogger has done just that. QoS Application Classes: Streaming video, interactive video, mission-critical data In the last blog, we began discussing the specific applications that are mapped into the various application classes used in a QoS deployment. The 11 application classes are as follows... January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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