Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router

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	Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router Cisco's Linksys brand of home wireless networking routers today joined other vendors in coming out with 802.11ac equipment, as well as enabling a cloud-based platform for configuration and control of its "Smart Wi-Fi Routers." Read More WHITE PAPER: Box Empowering Your Mobile Worker Today's most productive employees are mobile, and your company's IT strategy must be ready to support them with 24/7 access to the business information they need across a range of mobile devices. See how corporations are meeting the many needs of their mobile workers with the help of Box. Read Now! In this Issue Antennas: The Old School TV Networks For such a nice tablet, Microsoft is doing a lot of things wrong First World Problems: Problems With My Wifi At 30K Feet Small cells and Wi-Fi to carry 60% of mobile traffic by 2016 Cisco: Enterprise 802.11ac Sooner, Not Later WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower Costs of Your Product Lifecycle Management This paper includes sizing guidelines with recommended configurations for small, medium, and large installations along with test results and best practices for configuring the environment to optimize performance and reliability on Sun x86 servers from Oracle. Learn More! Antennas: The Old School TV Networks 40-years ago I was on a tower in the middle of the West Virgina hills putting up an antenna for state of the art TV reception. That is, I was installing a TV antenna. In WV, with few TV stations and lots of low mountains the only way you got TV was by having someone like my dad and his assistant—aka me—install up to 100-foot tall towers and antennas on top of them. That was then. This is now. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Transforming Tier 1 Applications through Virtualization This Technology Spotlight will explore the benefits of virtualizing tier 1 applications and discuss the role that EMC Consulting plays in virtualizing top tier Microsoft applications (including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL) on the VMware platform. Learn More For such a nice tablet, Microsoft is doing a lot of things wrong Now that the dust is settling on the Microsoft Surface tablet, all of the details are coming out, and it looks like this whole tablet adventure is turning into one big boondoggle, and given the shaky state of things, Microsoft can't afford any missteps. For more than 20 years, Microsoft has been in a very select hardware business. It limited itself to input devices – keyboards and mice – along... Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers. Learn more. First World Problems: Problems With My Wifi At 30K Feet I flew yesterday from Ft Lauderdale to Albany, NY to watch my son in a baseball tournament this week. The only non-stop flights were on Southwest Airlines. When I made the reservations and again when we checked in online I was happy to see that Southwest was now offering wifi service on their planes. Read More Small cells and Wi-Fi to carry 60% of mobile traffic by 2016 Small cell and WiFi systems will carry nearly 60 percent of all mobile traffic over the next five years, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Read More Cisco: Enterprise 802.11ac Sooner, Not Later Cisco recently briefed me on an interesting product direction they discussed at their latest Cisco Live event, an add-on 802.11ac module for their popular 3600 series of APs. In addition to being one of the few four-antenna .11n products on the market, the 3600 has a modular architecture that enables the bolting on of additional functionality. Read More
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