Switching rivals take aim at Cisco with new gear, strategies

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Brocade, Force10, Extreme and 3Com all say the current economic doldrums give them an opportunity while customers are sizing up budgets and considering ways to reduce cost. Read full story Related News: HP expected to "expand" to battle Cisco There's an interesting piece here that suggests HP may make a major acquisition to expand its data center offerings in an effort to ward off Cisco's broadening ambitions in that market. The names of the usual suspects -- Brocade, Juniper, NetApp -- emerge, however, so it's a bit of old news. Cisco unveils cloud computing platform for service providers Cisco this week is expected to unveil a platform for service providers that's designed to serve as a foundation for delivering cloud computing services. Cisco IOS Dial Peers: Translation Profiles Voice translation profiles allow administrators granular control of digit translation. Translation profiles can also be leveraged to block incoming calls based on a caller ID range of numbers. 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