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3Com patents bite back

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3Com patents bite back

Some big names in the computer industry were sued this week by a company claiming that they have infringed on Ethernet-related patents developed by 3Com. Read full story

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Is your networking budget recovering?
Almost a year ago, it became apparent that the worsening global economy was going to have a major impact on many industries, including telecommunications. Consequently, we surveyed the Webtorials user base to try to help determine what the impact of the economic crisis would be on telecommunications budgets and plans. These results were published in our "2009 Network Plans and Priorities State-of-the-Market Report."

Femto Forum plans interoperability testing
Aiming to increase operator confidence in femtocells, the Femto Forum plans to do interoperability testing at the end of March 2010, it said on Monday.

British ISP offers self-managing MPLS box
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Networks have to get more dense, Qualcomm says
The wireless industry has reached the limits of what it can do to use radio spectrum more efficiently and needs to move on to making networks more dense through tools such as femtocells, the cofounder and the current CEO of Qualcomm said Thursday.

The Cisco Architect: 'PhD of network architecture'
Only a handful of individuals across the globe have been certified in what is considered the top networking accreditation in the ICT industry after it was launched in June.

Ciena was prepared to pay millions more for Nortel's Metro Ethernet business
A mere five days before Ciena announced its deal to purchase Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks business, Ciena was prepared to pay $10 million in cash more for it.

One by one, carriers succumb to Google Voice
Ever since its launch this summer, Google Voice has presented carriers with some potentially thorny issues.

Finding who is sending 'bad' IPv6 traffic
In the world of IPv4, every network operator and security person know how to identify the host which sends 'bad' IPv4 traffic. In this blog entry, bad means launching an attack or sending malovent traffic, or violating Acceptable Use Policy or being misconfigured.

Cisco Ironport takes on the Dark Web
Today Cisco externally announced it's newest Ironport Web Security Appliance (WSA) code version. The big splash feature is a brand new, built from scratch, URL filtering engine. Cisco is calling it Web usage Controls. It consists of a list based traditional URL filtering database plus a new dynamic URL categorization engine for un-categorized URLs.

Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages.

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October 13, 2009

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