| 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. What makes a WAN optimization controller? Choosing a vendor can be the most challenging part of a WAN optimization project, given the wide range of vendors, features and technology options available today. Enterprises in the market for WAN optimization controllers (WOC) may find a new report from Gartner can help distinguish among the offerings available from leading players. 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. Cisco adds new online questions module to CCIE lab exam Effective Feb. 1, candidates for the CCIE Routing & Switching lab exam will be required to answer a series of online questions based on material covered on the lab blueprint, Cisco confirmed Friday. Brad Reese on Cisco: Used Cisco equals gypsies at a flea market I believe that Cisco has been too darn successful at tarnishing the image of the affordable used/refurbished secondary-market for Cisco equipment thereby opening the market for HP ProCurve to provide an affordable alternative. Cisco in the home: Anonymous or poised for domination? Cisco seems to be making an elaborate multi-course meal out of making home networking easier. While we know some of the ingredients we’re still not quite sure what the final meal will become. Cisco Security Expert: Jamey Heary: Cisco updatest SSL VPN with performance boost, Windows Mobile support Cisco recently released a new version of its Anyconnect SSLVPN client that adds support for Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.0 and 5.0 touch-screen devices. Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: QoS application classes: Signalling This blog continues our coverage of the 11 Cisco QoS application classes. The classes are as follows: Routing Voice Interactive Video Streaming Video Mission-Critical Data Call Signalling Transactional Data Network Management Bulk Data Best Effort Scavenger ... Wall Street trims back Cisco financials for the rest of the year Tech Trader Daily is reporting that some analysts have trimmed back predictions for Cisco's earnings for the fiscal year. Analysts expect a solid Q2 for Cisco While some financial analysts are cutting their expectations for Cisco's earnings for the rest of the fiscal year, MarketWatch is reporting that analysts expect Cisco to post solid Q2 results. Wall Street is expecting the networking giant to report an 8% slide in revenue to $9 billion. Brad Reese on Cisco: Are these the real reasons for Nortel's demise I am personally fascinated by the following comments that were made to a previous blog story of mine. The authors appear to be former Nortel and Bay Networks employees (keep in mind that none have been verified) offering comments as to the real reasons for the fall of Nortel. Scott Hogg on Core Networking and Security: Windows 7 IPv6 support The more some things change the more they same the same. That is certainly true for the IPv6 support in Windows 7. Even though Windows 7 is the latest Microsoft desktop operating system, its IPv6 support is very similar to the features inside Vista and Server 2008. Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: Why you and your CFO speak a different language The CFO wants to hear an answer such as, “We are 85% certain that this project will reduce the network risk by 30%, resulting in an annual savings of $175,000 over the next five years.” You’re used to measuring something and deriving a definite number in which you are 100% confident. You can’t put a definite number around “risk reduction.” Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: Translating the theory and practice of OSPF: a CCNA-ish/CCNP puzzle I'm going to start a series of a few more OSPF posts with a bit of a puzzle. It's not exactly like an exam question, but it'll maybe generate some thought. The initial parts will be like a complex CCNA topic, and then morph into a level you'd expected in CCNP. Router roll call Need an access router? Use our revamped Product Guide to compare access routers and get in-depth Network World reviews. 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. 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." 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. Getting Started with the CCNA Wireless New Cisco Subnet blogger Brandon Carroll unravels Cisco's CCNA Wireless specialization. VoIP security: Share your concerns? Introducing new Cisco Subnet blogger and VoIP security author Patrick Park. Tell him your VoIP concerns. QoS application classes Cisco Subnet blogger Dennis Hartmann gives an overview of data classes in transactional and network management applications, and discusses bulk data applications. 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. IPv6 capabilities in Cisco’s IPS software version 6.2 Cisco Subnet blogger Scott Hogg assesses Cisco's support for IPv6 in the newest version of Cisco's Intrusion Prevention System. 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? February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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