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	Cisco continues to restructure internally Cisco continues to tinker with its organizational structure, ever after completing a major restructuring begun last summer. This week, Cisco revamped its engineering operations to further streamline them and improve execution against company strategy, according to a blog on the Cisco site. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Sorting Out the Alphabet Soup of VPN Solutions MPLS-based IP VPN technology has become the leading WAN solution for connectivity, minimal capex and advantageous pay-for-use pricing. But it's a cloudy alphabet soup of VPN acronyms: IP. MPLS. CoS. QoS. FR and ATM. IPSec. SSL. VoMPLS. View More In this Issue 8 Free Wi-Fi security tools ZK Research Network Predictions for 2012 'Tis the Season: Cisco Product Engineer Holiday Wishes Cox to sell spectrum to Verizon for $315M 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 8 Free Wi-Fi security tools Here are several free programs you can use to do Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying on all the popular platforms - Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. You'll be able see all the nearby wireless access points (APs) and their details, including channels, signal levels, and MAC address. Read More WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL The Next Generation is the Smart Generation Innovations such as mobility, Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing have dramatically changed the IT landscape and introduced new security threats into the corporate network. This eBook investigates why traditional firewalls are no longer enough, and how application intelligence and control enable network security in the wake of these changes. Read more. ZK Research Network Predictions for 2012 2011 was a turbulent year in network. The disruption we lead by major megatrends such as consumerizaton, mobility, virtualization and cloud computing. I'm predicting that 2012 will be a year in which the industry sees Cisco stay aggressive, the start of Fabric wars, partners become enemies and vendor consolidation through acquisition. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more 'Tis the Season: Cisco Product Engineer Holiday Wishes Every year my team has a "Secret Santa" holiday party and gift exchange. This week, I was working with a couple of our Cisco engineers and noticed their "Top 10" list of holiday wishes - conveniently taped to their cubicle window for their Secret Santa. Do any of these match the items on your list this year? Read More Cox to sell spectrum to Verizon for $315M Cox Communications plans to sell wireless spectrum licenses covering 28 million U.S. residents to Verizon Wireless for US$315 million, becoming the latest cable operator to join with Verizon for mobile services. Read More
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