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	Cisco pays $5 billion for video company buy Cisco this week said it will acquire NDS Group Ltd., a provider of video software and content security systems for service providers and media companies, for $5 billion. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue Cell-to-Wi-Fi roaming is on the way, but may come with a price Sprint cancels LightSquared LTE deal Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights LTE will help make in-flight data access cheaper, vendors say Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net Cricket leaps to Clearwire for LTE offload Analyst: Mobile networks will need 10x fatter backhaul pipes by 2016 Pictures of iPad mania … around the world Developer cooks up 30-day 'Butter Egg Challenge' RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Don't let stronger security compromise performance. NetScaler gives your network a competitive edge with the industry best 2048-bit SSL transaction/sec performance. 2x faster SSL performance than F5. 50% lower SSL costs. Download the Citrix and Verisign White Paper and the NetScaler vs. F5 Performance Comparison now. Cell-to-Wi-Fi roaming is on the way, but may come with a price Getting your phone onto Wi-Fi networks may get a lot easier starting in about a year, but it won't necessarily get cheaper. Read More Sprint cancels LightSquared LTE deal Sprint Nextel has terminated its 15-year spectrum-hosting agreement with LightSquared, eliminating the would-be wholesale mobile operator's main carrier partnership even as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission seeks to shut down its network plans. Read More Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights The FCC's proposal to kill LightSquared's planned LTE network would violate the fledgling carrier's property rights by taking away its spectrum and destroying its multibillion-dollar investment in mobile broadband, LightSquared will argue on Friday in a formal comment to the agency. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Databases More at Risk Than Ever Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up. Learn More! LTE will help make in-flight data access cheaper, vendors say Deutsche Telekom, Alcatel-Lucent and Airbus have tested data communication between an aircraft and the ground, using LTE, which helps make in-flight data access cheaper, the three companies said on Thursday. Read More Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Alcatel-Lucent, enterprise campus edge, multimedia networking, application fluency, Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches, HP, 40G Ethernet Read More Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net The State of Indiana has launched a 100G Ethernet network for research and education. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Running SAP NetWeaver on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud This document outlines the value of using SAP on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and discusses architectural and practical considerations when deploying SAP on Exalogic and Exadata. Learn More! Cricket leaps to Clearwire for LTE offload LightSquared suffered another blow to its hoped-for wholesale 4G mobile business on Wednesday as budget carrier Cricket announced it will use Clearwire to flesh out a planned LTE service. Read More Analyst: Mobile networks will need 10x fatter backhaul pipes by 2016 U.S. cellular networks will need fatter pipes to the wired Internet to keep delivering a satisfying mobile experience: nearly 10 times fatter by 2016, according to research company iGR. Read More Pictures of iPad mania … around the world Devotees waiting in line in China, Germany, Australia and U.S. Read More Developer cooks up 30-day 'Butter Egg Challenge' "So, rise and shine," implores cloud developer Jason Nunnelley at the start of his YouTube video. "Had a really rough one yesterday; spent several hours working on some server data recapturing; anyway ..." Read More
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