Friday, July 03, 2009

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New NTIA administrator owned Cisco stock when granting exemption from Buy American rule

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.

Brad Reese on Cisco: 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 26, when Cisco stockholder Larry Strickling is confirmed as the new Administrator.

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Enterasys NAC sales triple
Brad Reese on Cisco: Earlier this week, network security vendor Enterasys said its NAC sales revenue grew 317% in 2009. This contradicts many security pundits who say that NAC will never get off the ground.

Networkers Hats, Cisco Certified Architect, and other Random Networkers thoughts
Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: Things that stuck out at Networkers: Attendance vs. party hats, (party hats looks like a Devo hat), the not-CCA, millennial to overcome baby boomers by 2011, the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer I spent in San Francisco.

Janitors, Chambers and Protesters at Cisco Live, Oh My
Larry Chaffin, Putting Realism Into Your Network: I was sent this very good story of Cisco having issues at Cisco Live with demonstrations. But the story was more about Chambers being heckled by people from the Union Local 1877, the janitors that Chambers fired.

Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals
Susan Bouchard, Enterprise Web 2.0: On May 8, 2007, as Cisco announced its third quarter fiscal year 2007 financial results, John Chambers commented on the importance of Web 2.0 to business, saying "this second phase of the Internet will drive the industry for the next decade." My one-month guest blog on Cisco Subnet is your chance to learn more.

Ethernet on a Ring
Scott Hogg, Core Networking and Security: If you are considering a network design that has a ring topology and you want to use Ethernet, it can be done, but you should first be aware of the issues. Ethernet is traditionally thought of as a bus or star topology.

Happy two-year Anniversary - a reminder to focus on what's really important in Network Engineering
Michael Morris, From the Field: This Saturday, July 4th, marks the two year anniversary of my "From the Field" blog on Network World. It's been a great and demanding experience. Best I can tell, I've written over 140 blogs in those two years on everything from Webtorials to Routing iSCSI with 10GIG.

New worldwide Cisco CCIE count surpasses historic 20K milestone
Brad Reese on Cisco: From personal experience I've learned that individuals not polite and respectful enough to remove their hat while indoors, also never get the job done. Thankfully, Dual CCIE #18532 Routing and Switching/Security - George Morton (who always politely and respectfully removes his hat while indoors), gets the job done and in record time too.

How do you define green data center?
Douglas Alger, The Greener Data Center: Now's your chance to meet the author of Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business! Come to the Data Center of Future area in the World of Solutions Expo, and be sure to pick up a free t-shirt.

July Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31.

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Rise and fall of Nortel
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