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	What if Ethernet failed? Can you imagine a world where carriers offered Metro FDDI services? Or the IEEE defined a standard for Token Bus in the First Mile? Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. In this Issue What are grand technology and scientific challenges for the 21st century? 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Free Trial What are grand technology and scientific challenges for the 21st century? What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? Read More Patches for critical Word flaw, RSA key length, clerical timestamp code-signing error There was a somewhat strange security update rolled out on Patch Tuesday, being that it does not address a security flaw, but rather a clerical timestamp error on binaries; this code-signing error will cause the digital signature on files produced and signed by Microsoft to expire and become invalid prematurely. Because "of the two k Read More Huawei, ZTE ban is questionable, given its impact A congressional committee recently published the results of an 11-month investigation of the two highly controversial Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei. The results of the probe have been widely disseminated in the media, including a front-page story in the Wall St Journal and a 15-minute piece on 60 minutes. Read More Wireless and The Cloud and Virtualization: Definitions Required Unfortunately, some of the most interesting conversation and debate at conferences like Interop New York, where I was all last week, take place away from the formal venue and instead play out in the Speakers Room or in the hallways, among speakers at the event and anyone else foolish enough to be caught in the consequential whirlwind and/or crossfire. The Interop Advisory Board, of which I am very... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. RIM CIO works the enterprise ranks of BlackBerry Research in Motion CIO Robin Bienfait's last name means "well done" in French. She's hoping those two words apply to BlackBerry 10 smartphones once they ship in the first quarter of 2013. Read More IBM expands PureSystems line for data duties IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction processing. Read More Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google HP's OpenStack-based IaaS cloud blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding Read More Huawei: Separating fact from fiction Chinese telecom provider Huawei was hardly a household word a few months ago, but it's had lots of negative publicity of late, from an Economist cover story to a 60 Minutes piece. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More Huawei customers defend their security after congressional report Three U.S.-based service providers that use equipment from Huawei Technologies said on Tuesday they take strong precautions to ensure the security of their networks, responding to a congressional report on Monday that said carriers should not buy from Huawei or ZTE. Read More New Akamai service optimizes content delivery for device, network conditions Akamai Technologies will announce on Tuesday a new service for improving website performance that determines the type of device and network a user has -- and whether the device has an IPv4 or IPv6 address -- and then improves the delivery of Web content accordingly. Read More 10Gbps server migration: The post-Romley era Gigabit Ethernet has been the dominant server network option of choice for the past decade, with more than 200 million 1Gbps server ports shipped since the early 2000s. But the introduction of Intel's new Romley server platform, together with rapid adoption of virtualization options and the emergence of technologies such as Big Data, are fueling migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Read More HP takes aim at Cisco, Juniper with full SDN portfolio splash HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market. Read More
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