Tuesday, November 22, 2011

6 ways to build SDNs without OpenFlow

Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz | Boost in IPv6 use is only one step to solution

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6 ways to build SDNs without OpenFlow
Although OpenFlow is stirring up all of the excitement around software defined networking (SDN), you can program a network with standard tools that have been around a while. Here are a few examples. Read More


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Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset
Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

Mobility, Flexibility, and Uniformity
For your business to succeed, your employees must be able to work together as productively as possible - to collaborate. Collaboration happens through communication. The Cisco® Unified Communications Manager Business Edition is designed to engender collaboration in medium and midsize businesses. Read now!

Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz
The latest release of Cisco's WAN optimization product line -- Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 -- proves that the company famous for routing packets can also shape, optimize and accelerate them. Read More


WHITE PAPER: FireEye

FireEye 1H 2011 Advanced Threat Report
The Advanced Threat Report is a technical look into the trends cyber criminals are employing to bypass traditional security. In the most recent semi-annual report from FireEye, they find that 99% of organizations are facing significant malware infections that have penetrated NGFW, IPS, AV, and Web gateways. Read now!

Boost in IPv6 use is only one step to solution
Support for IPv6 has grown by almost 20 times in the past year by one measure, but most websites still can't be reached without IPv4, the current Internet Protocol, which is near running out of unclaimed addresses. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Citrix

8 Reasons Why Citrix Beats F5
Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Read now

OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution
APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements them the same way. Will OpenFlow get us all on the same path to SDN nirvana? Read More

Cisco pulls away from pack in Q3
Despite a decline in the overall market, Cisco grew revenues in carrier infrastructure in the third quarter on both an annual and sequential basis. Synergy Research Group found that Cisco grew share in service provider core and edge routers, and Carrier Ethernet switches, from 48.7% in Q2 to 52.9% in Q3, 2011. Read More

Come see me, Jeff Doyle, Scott Hogg, ARIN's John Curran at Network World's IPv6 event in New York
Please mark your calendars for December 13 in New York for an awesome Network World event lead by world-class experts Jeff Doyle and Scott Hogg. I'll be there, too. Read More



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