Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Real network engineers put Cisco data center gear through its paces; Cisco fraud doesn't pay

Cisco unleashes Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz
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Real network engineers put Cisco data center gear through its paces
If you want to know how the Cisco Nexus line really works in practice, here's your chance to live vicariously through a group of network engineers who right now are testing out an end-to-end Nexus data center design. In their words "Yup, scary." Read more.

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A special note from Network World Community Editor Julie Bort: A farewell to our Cisco Subnet founder, Linda Leung Dear Cisco Subnet Readers, Today we say good-bye to the community's founder, Linda Leung, who has left Network World. In addition to building Cisco Subnet as the best independent Cisco community on the Web, Leung was also the founder of Network World's Microsoft Subnet, the premier community for Microsoft IT professionals and customers. (You may have noticed, Leung's Subnet project has grown to include a Google Subnet, as well.)

Cisco unleashes Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz Perhaps popular Valentine's Day consumer gift items like the Reese's Peanut Butter Heart will be taking back seats this year to a much more exciting gift, why? Because it appears Cisco is unleashing a Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz, according to a report by Ira Pumfkin over at Tech Edge Weekly.

Avaya calculator shows how green your company is Avaya has launched an online energy saving calculator. Avaya isn't the first one try to position itself as a green network gear vendor. Nortel trailblazed that tactic, using its so called-energy calculator to more-or-less skewer Cisco. Nortel's tactic didn't particularly work, if you can judge by its bankruptcy.

Cisco fraud doesn't pay - even for the innocent Further evidence that crime against Cisco doesn't pay - even for those innocent souls unlucky enough to get caught up in Cisco fraud cases. Star Tribune has an interview with Steve Chicoine, former president of Interlink Communications who in December was exonerated in a case to defraud Cisco to the tune of $1 million. His ordeal had begun in 2002 when his office was raided by federal agents and ended last month when a jury found him not guilty.

Why is Cisco spending lots of marketing dollars on WAAS? Cisco Subnet blogger Larry Chaffin writes: Cisco is touting NBC's use of Cisco WAAS to broadcast the Beijing Olympic Games. Did NBC try out other WAN acceleration providers? Plus: Riverbed adds WAN optimization to HP ProCurve gear - how will this affect Cisco?

OSPF puzzle, Part 2: Analyzing OSPF metrics, human style Cisco Subnet blogger Wendell Odom tackles the OSPF puzzle he set in a previous blog posting, this time from a human perspective.

How does Cisco IronPort prevent directory harvest attacks? Tom Topping, director of federal operations for Cisco IronPort gives his take on how IronPort prevents directory harvest attacks.

Is my network healthy? Important IOS CLI info (Show version) Cisco Subnet blogger Avner Izhar shares his command line interface best-practices for assessing the network's health.

Getting Started with the CCNA Wireless New Cisco Subnet blogger Brandon Carroll unravels Cisco's CCNA Wireless specialization.

More on Cisco Subnet
VoIP security: Share your concerns?; QoS application classes; IPv6 capabilities in Cisco’s IPS software version 6.2; Is my network healthy? Important IOS CLI info (Show version).

February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: One American Express gift card worth $250 from Global Knowledge; One Microsoft training course worth $2,995 from Global Knowledge; 15 copies each of the hot book titles Voice over IP Security, and CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide and 15 copies of Exchange Server 2007 How-To: Real Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Administrators. Get all the entry details here.


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