The growth in east-west traffic

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	The growth in east-west traffic For the last year or so there has been a lot of discussion in the trade press about how data center LAN design used to focus primarily on north-south traffic and how data center LAN design now needs to focus more on east-west traffic in order to support the challenges of server virtualization. As will be discussed in the next two newsletters, the evolving nature of east-west traffic is also having a major impact on WAN optimization. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! In this Issue No news is good news on World IPv6 Day IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day New Cisco edge routers optimized for IPv6 traffic Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers The lighter side of World IPv6 Day WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! No news is good news on World IPv6 Day World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of next-generation Internet services, is going as smoothly as participating websites had hoped, sparking comparisons to the dawn of the new millennium passing without any Y2K-related incidents. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day A surge of IPv6-based Web traffic began flowing over the Internet last night when World IPv6 Day began, according to data gathered by Arbor Networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya A Look at What Midsize and Large Companies Really Spend Nemertes has tracked how much companies spend on their IP-telephony deployments within the LAN and VOIP across the WAN. This paper reviews the latest deployment trends and costs associated with VOIP, and provides capital and operational cost details for midsize and enterprise implementations from four vendors. Learn More New Cisco edge routers optimized for IPv6 traffic Cisco this week rolled out two routers designed to allow service providers to migrate to IPv6 and more capably support video, mobility and cloud offerings. Read More Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers Enterasys this week rolled out software that allows network admins to access its management system via social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com's Chatter. Read More The lighter side of World IPv6 Day The Network World homepage has all the serious coverage of World IPv6 Day that anyone could possibly want. So let's turn to Twitter and YouTube for the more elusive IPv6 chuckles. Read More
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