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Free Trial Why is Steven Sinofsky really leaving Microsoft? It's hard to imagine why someone would walk away from one of the most powerful jobs within Microsoft just weeks after launching two products that its CEO says together rank among the top three events in the company's storied history. But that is just what Steven Sinofsky has done, stepping down as president of the Windows and Windows Live division. Read More Review: 6 slick open source routers DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense, and Vyatta suit a wide range of devices and networking needs. Read More Google starts connecting homes in Kansas City to high-speed fiber service Google said Tuesday it is starting to connect homes in Kansas City, Kansas, to its Google Fiber broadband service. Read More OpenFlow startup takes aim at Cisco, VMware Big Switch Networks has announced the general availability of its OpenFlow-based software-defined networking products and applications, as well as customers and partners. 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Read More Highlights of Big Switch's long-awaited SDN announcement This morning, SDN startup Big Switch unveiled its strategy to end what might be the worst job of being in stealth mode in the history of networking. I'm not sure that anyone in the networking industry wasn't at least partially aware of what Big Switch was doing. However, there were gaps in my and others' knowledge, so today's announcement clarifies the strategy. It certainly lived up to the hype. Read More Extreme joins Cisco, Brocade, Huawei at 100G Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch. Read More Cisco to build small cellular base stations, Chambers says Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations, building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. 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Read More Startup debuts with cloud-based open-source identity and access management software Startup ForgeRock makes its official debut today with cloud-based open-source identity and access management (IAM) software called Open Identity Stack intended to be used by enterprises and service providers to enable centralized provisioning and access management to enterprise, mobile and software-as-a-service applications. Read More Cisco's Chambers downplays danger of trade war over Huawei The U.S. and China are likely to resolve the conflict over potential security threats from Huawei Technologies' network equipment without a trade war, Cisco Systems chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. Read More
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