The scourge of complexity; Hello DSL, goodbye toolless keystone jacks

	Hello DSL; goodbye toolless keystone jacks | Cisco announces CleanAir for Wi-Fi interference on new access points
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	The scourge of complexity As mentioned in the last newsletter, this week Jim is at the Interop conference in Vegas where he is moderating ten sessions. One of the key ideas that will be addressed in a number of Jim's session is complexity – what drives it and what to do about it. We will use this newsletter to discuss just one example of growing challenge that complexity presents to IT organizations, particularly when the WAN is leveraged to support continually evolving forms of distributed applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Hello DSL; goodbye toolless keystone jacks Cisco announces CleanAir for Wi-Fi interference on new access points Carriers flubbing femtocell Broadcasting group defends its spectrum turf WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! Hello DSL; goodbye toolless keystone jacks AT&T gets Gibbs hooked up to DSL. Then he tries to use "toolless" keystone jacks. Bad idea. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Troubleshooting Application Problems This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here! Cisco announces CleanAir for Wi-Fi interference on new access points Cisco Systems announced a new series of high-end wireless LAN access points with so-called CleanAir technology that is designed to give network administrators the ability to monitor Wi-Fi interference from a variety of devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Extended Security Features of Windows 7 Microsoft has added significant security enhancement to Windows 7. This Gartner research note details the capabilities available (many are only available to EA/SA subscribers), which features should be activated and where some security holes still remain. Read More. Carriers flubbing femtocell Femtocells have gotten off to a sluggish start so far because carriers have yet to sell customers on their benefits, says an analyst at Infonetics Research. Read More Broadcasting group defends its spectrum turf U.S. television broadcasters are willing to talk about sharing their unused spectrum with broadband providers, but they should not be forced to give up spectrum or be taxed for the spectrum they have, said the head of a broadcasting trade group. Read More
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