Nortel in '09: Dismantling of a tech stalwart This year saw the slow, painful dismantling of Nortel. Its gradual exit from the tech scene played out the entire year, as each month brought news of more layoffs, markdowns or sell-offs. Groups urge changes to broadband stimulus programs Two U.S. government agencies distributing $7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants and loans over the next year should make big changes before a second round of funding starts, several groups have told the agencies. Data center start-up expands Gigabit Ethernet switch line Arista Networks has unveiled a Gigabit Ethernet data center switch designed to better accommodate increasing traffic loads between the server access and core layers of the network. Alcatel-Lucent takes bite out of Cisco's SP edge router market share Networking and telecommunications industry market information gurus, The Dell'Oro Group, published its Routers Report 3Q09. Cisco leads funding for supply chain management company Cisco is backing a privately-held company that's developed a supplier information management system for enterprises. Cisco is the largest participant in a $27 million funding round announced this week for Aravo, which was founded in 2000 to develop an enterprise supplier collaboration platform to help simplify and reduce the cost of managing supplier information. Cisco's worldwide Routing and Switching CCIE count falls by -48 This month, George Morton - Dual CCIE #18532 Routing and Switching/Security, provides his analysis of Cisco's new worldwide CCIE count. Cisco extends Tandberg deadline again Cisco has once again extended its deadline for videoconferencing leader Tandberg to accept its raised offer for the company. Cisco hiked the offer for Tandberg to $3.4 billion from $3 billion on Nov. 16 and gave the company's shareholders until Dec. 1 to accept. Cable industry floats broadband adoption program A cable industry trade group has proposed a program that would help low-income families of middle-school students get broadband service in their homes, with cable broadband providers pitching in about US$572 million worth of discounted service over two years. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: The CCIE has gotten a lot harder, data shows and Can Santa Deliver a Hummin' Dynamips Platform for Christmas?; On Microsoft Subnet: Prevx apologizes, backtracks on claims that Microsoft patch causes black screen; On Google Subnet: Google changes rules for Google News to placate publishers Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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