Friday, January 09, 2009

Is Google developing its own routers?; Cisco warns of GSS DNS vulnerability

Rumor: Google fed up with Juniper so it's developing its own routers
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This is Network World's Cisco Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your daily source for Cisco news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more.

Is Google developing its own routers?
What a delicious rumor. Google is building its own routers because it's unhappy with Juniper's products, according to a blog in SD Times. Blogger Alex Handy cites "multiple sources, including one inside Cisco". Handy writes: "It would seem that Google is fed up with JUNOS and all the various difficulties it can present in an environment where, frankly, no one has figured out the best practices." Read more.

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More from Cisco Subnet:

Cisco: Consumer business to be worth $10 billion in 5 years

Cisco warns of GSS DNS vulnerability

Three candidates pass Cisco's network design beta exam

Cisco offers free iPhone app to tune into WebEx meetings

From our bloggers:

Brad Reese on Cisco: Billion dollar financial fraud revealed within Satyam, a collaboration partner of Cisco
In his resignation letter this week, Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju listed the following financial fraud irregularities on the books of Satyam Computer Services ...

Michael Morris From the Field: Holy Crap I Passed the CCDE!!!!
A couple days ago I wrote that I didn't know if I had passed the CCDE Practical exam. Others had got their letter right after Christmas, but mine was lost in the mail apparantely. Well, the mail came today and I passed ...

Jamey Heary: Cisco Security Expert:Cisco changes its docs to reflect that it DOES support 3rd party VPNs
There is Internet buzz and customer complaints around wording buried in some ASA configuration docs that can be interpreted as, “Cisco doesn’t support 3rd Party VPN connections” To set the record straight, Cisco has changed all of their documentation (in record time) to reflect their true stance.

Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: Job Prospects Better for CCxP than CCIE?
Seems like most everyone these days is talking about jobs and job prospects. A friend of mine has even gotten in the habit of just asking "have you got a job currently" instead of the usual innocuous greetings. continuing on this thread for another post or two, let me ask the following question ...

Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: QoS Type of Service Field Evolution
RFC791 introduced the Type of Service (ToS) field using the most significant fields of the octet (as explained in the last blog). RFC795 defined the service mappings of the delay, throughput, and reliability bits. 

Cisco Knowledge Share with Avner Izhar: VoIP is dead? - depends on what you define as VoIP
Was catching up on blogs when I found the Cisco Subnet entry called Is VoIP dead?. wow, really, am I in a dying specie of IT? did the recession finally got to my back yard? reading into the post and following first level and second level links, I realized it is perhaps a good story, but not the end of the world.

Larry Chaffin:  Putting realism into you networks: Prediction for 2009, He who makes fully encrypted SD and Micro SD Cards wins
While meeting with a few CIO’s in a summit over the holiday something came to me, why can’t someone fully encrypt a Micro SD Card or SD Card? You would think that if someone could do this, mass sell it at Best Buy it would be a hit. We all know you can use certain programs on windows and the blackberry to encrypt certain files. But even with that there have been horror stories of lost files and problems.

Jimmy Ray Purser: Networking geek to geek: Fiber Channel Over Ethernet
A few years back, I had the honor of getting to work with Brice Clark from Hewlett Packard. Brice was one smart Dude that had a real vision for how things could be, and the steps to turn a dream into a SKU. Brice introduced me to the world of iSCSI. Man was I impressed. Some of the downsides were that it ran on IP so it inherited some of the problems with IP, but iSCSI really took a dramatic turn in traditional fiber channel ...

New blog: Author Expert: Keatron Evans: Recon yourself?
I'm still shocked at how little some admins know about their own networks. I often advise clients on the recon steps we take and suggest they do the same.

New blog: Scott Hogg on core networking and security: Increasing Network Availability with Visio
Today, most business applications are network centric. Their real-time business applications require the highest level of network availability. Downtime can cause lost revenue, reduced productivity, and a tarnished image. However, few executives realize how important the underlying network is to their sustained operations.

Hot discussions among Cisco Subnet readers:

Is Cisco customer advocacy being thrown under the bus?

Your 2009 Certification Goals Vs. the Economy (Surveys)

Cisco changes its docs to reflect that it DOES support 3rd party VPNs

Cisco ain't got the skills to make it in the consumer market

Cisco goes Hollywood with product placements

China CCIE count grows 11 times more than U.S.

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