NTIA granted Cisco its Buy American Exception while new NTIA administrator, Larry Strickling, owned a large Cisco stock position I blogged last April about how Cisco was working overtime AGAINST the Buy America provisions of the $7.2B broadband stimulus fund. Fast-forward to June 19, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) granted Cisco its coveted Buy American Exception, allowing Cisco to sell all of the products that it has outsourced to manufacturers overseas to recipients of the $7.2B broadband... Does cloud commoditize Cisco, others? An insightful piece of analysis from Morningstar, the mutual fund ranking people, on the disruptive effects of cloud computing suggests hard times ahead for hardware. Enterprises looking to pay for compute cycles on an as needed basis will require less data center infrastructure -- that's a given. Ethernet on a Ring If you are considering a network design that has a ring topology and you desire to use Ethernet then you should first be aware of the issues of using Ethernet with a ring architecture. Ethernet is traditionally thought of a as a bus or star topology. With the pervasiveness of Ethernet technology you may find yourself contemplating using Ethernet with a ring architecture. These new extensions to... June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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