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Extreme fills out the edge; Ciena to buy Nortel unit for $521 million Wide Area Networking Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Blue Coat Systems Managed Services Delivery: From Packets to Applications Melanie Posey, IDC's research director of Telecom Markets, asked Blue Coat about WAN optimization, network performance, application delivery and the role application visibility in managed services in this analyst report. Read Now Spotlight Story Be cautious - be very, very cautious In our last newsletter we discussed how our research into cloud computing had sensitized us to the overwhelming concern that IT organizations have for the security and privacy of their data. We also began to analyze how the US government has been gaining increasing power to access data that once appeared to be private. In this newsletter, we will continue that analysis and will also discuss what this means for IT organizations. Read full story Related News: Extreme fills out the edge Extreme Networks this week unveiled an extension to its edge switching portfolio with three new modules for its BlackDiamond 8800 chassis Ciena to buy Nortel unit for $521 million Ciena has agreed to acquire Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks business for approximately $521 million in cash and stock. Boise State ditches Cisco DNS Boise State University, the largest university in Idaho, has replaced its aging Cisco Network Registrar software with appliances from BlueCat Networks that it says are easier to manage and less expensive to operate for Domain Name System and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol services. Father of fiber-optics snags share of Nobel Physics Prize Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. 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. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Are netbooks ready for the enterprise? Five reasons to deploy netbooks and five reasons not to. Demo's biggest stars ever 1,500 innovators have presented at Demo. Here are the best. Forrester Research Total Economic Impact Analysis of WAN Optimization Forrester Research provided detailed analysis of WAN Optimization ROI based on in-depth interviews with 9 enterprises. This paper summarizes the ROI, benefits and IT flexibility provided by a typical WAN optimization deployment. Learn More Now DR- Balancing Risk vs. Cost Disaster Recovery can be a balancing act. You must constantly weigh the risk against the cost. Learn how a cost effective, proven DR plan can ensure zero downtime for class 1 applications and improve WAN-based replication 5x-50x. Click here to learn more.   October 08, 2009 MOST-READ STORIES 500 words too taxing? Does the 'T' in MIT stand for Tweet? Microsoft's mobile turnaround: what's at stake Malware flea market pays hackers to hijack PCs 10 seriously ridiculous hacks Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's For sale: Cisco data center rival Brocade Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed Cisco releases IOS 15.0 Is the worst of recession over for IT pros? Review: HP blade takes a stab at Cisco Best Practices for Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions This white paper explains how to best make this critical technology decision. It provides an overview of best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions. Most important, it offers a metric – performance ROI – that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest business value. Learn More Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. Over 70 categories. Visit now   This email was sent to networking.world@gmail.com Complimentary Subscriptions Available for newsletter subscribers. Receive 50 issues of Network World Magazines, in print or electronic format, free of charge. Apply here. Terms of Service/Privacy   Subscription Services Update your profile To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. Unsubscribe Network World, Inc., 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2009 www.networkworld.com | Forward this to a Friend >>>