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	Cisco vs. HP vs. IBM vs. Dell Cisco used to be a networking company, pure and simple. It built its dominance and influence on capturing a dominant market position in routers and switches, both in the enterprise and in service provider networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath 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 In this Issue US energy agency demos blazingly fast network ABC's of ADCs in the cloud LightSquared will be a 'dumb pipe,' CEO says Cisco seen turning things around WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More US energy agency demos blazingly fast network The U.S. Department of Energy will debut in November one of the fastest networks ever built: a 100Gbps Ethernet network that will enable researchers to create more complex, real-world simulations in climate change, particle physics, astronomy and other scientific fields. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intel Boost virtualization w/ HP & Intel 10GbE This paper describes why the Intel® Ethernet X520 SFP+ Direct Attach (DA) Server Adapter for HP ProLiant Rack and Tower servers is one of the most flexible and scalable Ethernet adapters for today's demanding data center environments. Click to continue ABC's of ADCs in the cloud Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) are critical to a smoothly functioning data center. They provide key functions including server load balancing, monitoring the health of servers and apps; protecting the data center from distributed denial-of-service attacks, performing SSL encryption and decryption; making servers more efficient by managing connections, running specialized application scripts and accelerating applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Care and Feeding Guide for Optimizing Your Wireless Network White paper outlines best practices in monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting wireless networks, guiding you through developing a baseline and testing your WLAN design to managing signals and users to administering and troubleshooting your WLAN. Learn more! LightSquared will be a 'dumb pipe,' CEO says Satellite-LTE carrier LightSquared will be "the dumbest broadband wireless pipe," CEO Sanjiv Ahuja told a conference on Wednesday, warmly embracing a role that traditional mobile operators have rejected in varying degrees. Read More Cisco seen turning things around The reinvention and recovery are well underway. Another Wall Street analyst expects Cisco to hit the mark this quarter, just two quarters after eliminating 12,000 jobs in a restructuring to focus back in its core routing and switching businesses. Read More
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