Full speed ahead for 802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi

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	Full speed ahead for 802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi Last December customers were peppering wireless LAN vendors with questions about whether to upgrade to the pre-standard-but-certified 802.11ac products flooding the market or hold off until 2015, when more powerful "Wave 2" Gigabit Wifi gear was expected to become prevalent. A year later, even though Wave 2 products have begun trickling into the market, many IT shops seem less preoccupied with Wave 2 and more focused on installing the Wave 1 11ac routers, access points and other products at hand. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Riverbed Optimization System: Technical Overview The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™) powers Riverbed's unique line of SteelHead™ application acceleration appliances and Steelhead Mobile client software. RiOS is based on technologies that solve a range of problems affecting wide area networks (WANs) and application performance. View Now>> In this Issue Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software The 5 worst Big Data privacy risks (and how to guard against them) Red Hat product president Paul Cormier disses the Docker myth INSIDER Wanted for hire: Engineers with ideas of their own How to speed up your network without replacing your AirPort Extreme Base Station Imagine traveling in an airliner without access to any of your personal electronic devices WHITE PAPER: Curvature Smart Companies are Migrating their Maintenance Contracts By refocusing their strategy to maintenance contracts that are independent of OEM policies, companies can maximize their IT budget while managing their infrastructure more efficiently. Read about alternative strategies and debunk IT market myths. View now Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software Juniper Networks this week rolled out a switch based on hardware from the Open Compute Project designed to run its Junos network operating system software, and others. Read More   The 5 worst Big Data privacy risks (and how to guard against them) The collection and manipulation of Big Data, as its proponents have been saying for several years now, can result in real-world benefits: Advertisements focused on what you actually want to buy; smart cars that can call for an ambulance if you're in an accident; wearable or implantable devices that can monitor your health and notify your doctor if something is going wrong.But, it can also lead to big privacy problems. By now it is glaringly obvious that when people generate thousands of data points every day – where they go, who they communicate with, what they read and write, what they buy, what they eat, what they watch, how much they exercise, how much they sleep and more – they are vulnerable to exposure in ways unimaginable a generation ago.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Agari Understanding DMARC for Securing Email Channels Learn more about how DMARC is combined with existing authentication technologies to create secure email channels, and provide receivers with clear directives on how to safely dispose of unauthorized email - all at Internet scale. Learn more! Red Hat product president Paul Cormier disses the Docker myth So just what is the relationship between red-hot container company Docker and open source stalwart Red Hat? Are the two companies on the same side, or not? Do Docker containers complement or compete with Red Hat's Linux offerings?To get some answers, I talked with Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of products and technologies, and he had some pretty strong opinions on the subject. But it all boils down to Red Hat's position that container technology (and Docker) simply isn't the be-all and end-all that many people seem to want it to be—at least not in the enterprise.Technology, not business"Containers can solve a lot of problems for enterprise," Cormier told me. "But it matters what's inside the container – what pieces of the user space OS and which Linux host the containers run on."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER Wanted for hire: Engineers with ideas of their own It's a playground for engineers inside the new offices of Cambridge Consultants.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   : Venafi Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More How to speed up your network without replacing your AirPort Extreme Base Station With the addition of a faster (and less expensive) wireless router, you can speed up your existing network. Read More   Imagine traveling in an airliner without access to any of your personal electronic devices The reason you're being asked to imagine the horror of air travel with no electronics is that counterterrorism officials here and abroad are reportedly considering just such a restriction in response to heightened concerns about bombs in carry-on luggage.That's on top of considering a ban on carry-on luggage.From an NPR story: Another possible remedy: banning electronic devices from the passenger cabin. Officials are discussing whether to require that electronics such as cellphones, iPads and computers be placed in the cargo hold with checked baggage, which goes through a much more rigorous screening process. Detecting a bomb, if there is one, would be more likely.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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