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Week of 30 Jan 2012 Cisco 40 GbE and 100 GbE switching debut at Cisco Live London (01 Feb 2012)
Cisco released 40 and 100 GbE line cards for the Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 6500, as well as network virtualization strategies that enhance both campus and data center networks.
Cisco Live London: Cisco debuts 4x4 MIMO wireless LAN access point (31 Jan 2012)
At Cisco Live London, Cisco introduced a three-stream 4x4 MIMO wireless LAN access point, the faster and longer-range Aironet 3600.
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Week of 23 Jan 2012 IBM partners with NEC for OpenFlow switch, software-defined networking (25 Jan 2012)
IBM launched a new OpenFlow switch as part of a software-defined networking partnership with OpenFlow pioneer NEC, making IBM a player in data center networking.
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Week of 16 Jan 2012 Network security test: Crossbeam secures 1 million simultaneous users (19 Jan 2012)
Crossbeam performed a network security test that emulated one million simultaneous mobile users on its network security hardware.
Online sports site uses super-scalable network security hardware (19 Jan 2012)
In this Q&A, Australia’s online betting site Sportsbet reveals how it scales network security with network hardware security specialist Crossbeam.
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Week of 09 Jan 2012 Magic Quadrant: Next-generation firewalls are mainstream (12 Jan 2012)
Next-generation firewalls have enjoyed a lot of hype in recent years, but now they are also dominating the market, according to Gartner’s latest firewall Magic Quadrant.
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Week of 19 Dec 2011 Network technology trends for 2012: Network management (22 Dec 2011)
Looking at network management technology trends for 2012, EMA's Jim Frey predicts cross-domain management, SaaS-based management and cloud SLAs.
Network technology trends for 2012: Network security (22 Dec 2011)
Looking at network security technology trends for 2012, Gartner’s Greg Young predicts better security of virtualization and emerging data center fabrics.
Network technology trends for 2012: The big picture (22 Dec 2011)
Forrester Research analyst Andre Kindness shares big picture predictions for network technology trends in 2012: the rise of Huawei and why networkers need software skills
Network technology trends for 2012: Wireless LAN and BYOD (22 Dec 2011)
Craig Mathias of Farpoint Group shares his predictions for the wireless LAN industry in 2012, as BYOD forces enterprises to rethink their management approaches.
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Week of 12 Dec 2011 Network technology trends 2012: Out-of-band management and DevOps (15 Dec 2011)
F5 Networks’ technology evangelist Lori MacVittie shares her take on network technology trends in 2012, including the return of the out-of-band management network.
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Week of 05 Dec 2011 Adtran WLAN access points enable integrated wireless and wired network (08 Dec 2011)
With a software upgrade to its Bluesocket wireless access points, Adtran offers an integrated wireless and wired network option.
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Week of 28 Nov 2011 Research institute deploys 100 Gigabit Ethernet from core to closet (28 Nov 2011)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute deployed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) out to its wiring closets with Brocade to support 10 GbE endpoints and high-performance computing.
Ruckus joins real-time wireless channel selection fray (01 Dec 2011)
With real-time wireless channel selection, Ruckus is promising advanced RF management and optimization, but testing for the technology is still in order.
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Week of 14 Nov 2011 Network upgrade yields facilities automation, active-active data center (17 Nov 2011)
With an HP-based network upgrade, the University of North Florida can now support facilities automation and an active-active data center.
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Week of 07 Nov 2011 Brocade’s stackable switch: The low-cost alternative to Catalyst 3750? (10 Nov 2011)
With its new stackable switch, Brocade offers an alternative to Cisco’s Catalyst 3750 with plenty of bandwidth and features and a much lower price.
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Week of 31 Oct 2011 NetFlow analyzer improves security, network capacity management (03 Nov 2011)
Fitchburg State University installed Lancope’s SteathWatch NetFlow analyzer to boost security and network capacity management.
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Week of 24 Oct 2011 Network traffic capture systems offer broader security visibility (28 Oct 2011)
Network traffic capture systems offer network security appliances better visibility into network activity.
Riverbed rolls out application delivery controller for the cloud (26 Oct 2011)
Riverbed’s rebranding of the Zeus application delivery controller and Aptimize Web content optimization targets cloud networking.
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Week of 17 Oct 2011 Cisco attacks HP on network hardware total cost of ownership claims (20 Oct 2011)
In a new total cost of ownership (TCO) study, Cisco says HP’s lower prices on network hardware don’t matter. Cisco’s superior quality and features pays you back, it says.
Cisco enhances Nexus 7000, boosts data center network scalability (18 Oct 2011)
With enhancements to the Nexus line, Cisco is offering more scalability and choice in the data center network than ever before.
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Week of 10 Oct 2011 Infoblox boosts core network services scalability to handle mobility (13 Oct 2011)
With Multi-Grid Management (MGM), Infoblox increased the scalability and manageability of its core network services technology, including DNS, DHCP and IP address management.
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Week of 03 Oct 2011 BYOD boosts wireless LAN market, forces WLAN design (05 Oct 2011)
Smartphones and tablets are flooding wireless LANs with new traffic, forcing WLAN design changes and driving new WLAN equipment sales.
HP data center fabric vision takes shape with HP 5900 switch (06 Oct 2011)
Combined with its core A12500 chassis, HP’s new top-of-rack 5900 switch marks the beginning of a data center fabric vision.
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Week of 26 Sep 2011 Network hardware prices drop due to increased vendor competition (27 Sep 2011)
Competition in the enterprise routing and switching market is intensifying, which is driving down network hardware prices.
Network monitoring switches eliminate 40 Gigabit Ethernet blind spots (29 Sep 2011)
Network monitoring tools aren’t ready for 40 Gigabit Ethernet, but a network monitoring switch will allow you to monitor the faster media with 10 Gigabit Ethernet tools.
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Week of 29 Aug 2011 Bring-your-own-device programs gain traction, vendors respond (31 Aug 2011)
Enterprises are embracing bring-your-own- device policies that let users go mobile, and vendors are looking to cash in with solutions.
Brocade’s network hardware price model: Pay-as-you-go (01 Sep 2011)
With Brocade Network Subscription, Brocade offers a pay-as-you-go network hardware price structure that allows customers to pay only for what they need.
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Week of 15 Aug 2011 Xsigo evolves I/O virtualization into data center fabric (18 Aug 2011)
I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo has evolved its product into a data center fabric by enabling server-to-server connections within its infrastructure.
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Week of 08 Aug 2011 NSEL NetFlow collectors gather telemetry from firewalls (11 Aug 2011)
As more firewalls support the NetFlow Security Event Logging (NSEL), NetFlow collectors will become a strong alternative to firewall log analyzers.
Web content optimization rewrites HTML to improve application delivery (09 Aug 2011)
Web content optimization vendors have taken on a heretofore neglected application delivery niche: Rewriting HTML code for more efficient presentation of Web-based applications.
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Week of 01 Aug 2011 F5 streamlines application delivery controller operations with iApps (03 Aug 2011)
With its iApp framework, F5 Networks simplifies the process of getting an application up and running on its application delivery controllers.
Quest makes its network management software free for 100 nodes or less (03 Aug 2011)
Quest Software offers Foglight network management software as a free download for 100 or fewer nodes on a network, hoping to snatch SolarWinds customers in the long term.
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Week of 25 Jul 2011 Wireless LAN security: NSA Suite B cryptography is government strength (27 Jul 2011)
Aruba's support of NSA Suite B cryptography opens up wireless LAN mobility options for classified government networks and highly secure enterprises.
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Week of 18 Jul 2011 Dell's Force10 acquisition spawns another data center network strategy (21 Jul 2011)
Dell's Force10 acquisition aims to create a converged infrastructure solution for the data center network with Dell's server and storage products.
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Week of 11 Jul 2011 Cisco Live 2011: Catalyst 6500 upgrade the game changer? (13 Jul 2011)
At Cisco 2011, Cisco played to its core audience, announcing a Catalyst 6500 upgrade that will triple the switch's speed and capacity and beef up security and management.
Cisco Live 2011: More than the Nexus 7009? (12 Jul 2011)
At Cisco Live 2011, engineers hope for the launch of the Nexus 7009, a smaller, cheaper, speedy switch that can replace the 6500.But will that be enough to soften Cisco's troubles?
Cisco UCS upgrade goes for speed, management and automation (14 Jul 2011)
Cisco's UCS upgrade includes higher speed and capacity in switching and server access, but it also enables deeper management and automation throughout the converged network.
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Week of 27 Jun 2011 An advanced switch port mapper: Solarwinds User Device Tracker (30 Jun 2011)
A new switch port mapper can find any device plugged into a network, track when it was last connected or send an alert when it reconnects.
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Week of 20 Jun 2011 Aruba demos multimedia mobile application delivery on wireless LAN (23 Jun 2011)
Mobile application delivery, especially video over Wi-Fi, challenges organizations with throngs of users, but Aruba may have a mobile application delivery answer.
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Week of 13 Jun 2011 Enterasys offers remote network management via Facebook and Twitter (16 Jun 2011)
Enterasys Networks introduces remote network management via enterprise social media. Is network management via Twitter and Facebook revolutionary or a marketing gimmick?
OpenFlow hype and the software-defined network (13 Jun 2011)
The OpenFlow protocol, and the software-defined networks it enables, have a lot of potential for solving problems like virtualization.
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Week of 23 May 2011 New cloud-based network labs from Juniper and Cisco a good start (25 May 2011)
Juniper's Junosphere and Cisco Learning Labs offer broader access to network gear firmware, but engineers want something they can run locally, much like illicit router emulator software.
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Week of 16 May 2011 Police use outdoor wireless mesh network for IP surveillance (19 May 2011)
With a pair of grants, the Seattle Police Department plans to upgrade its outdoor wireless mesh network to 802.11n for IP video surveillance.
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Week of 09 May 2011 F5 Viprion chassis gets cheaper for the masses at Interop 2011 (11 May 2011)
At Interop 2011, F5 Networks unveiled a midrange F5 Viprion chassis application delivery controller and muli-tenancy capability through virtualization of its OS.
Vendors aim to improve SaaS performance with cloud WAN optimization (10 May 2011)
Vendors announced plans this week at Interop 2011 to beef up their cloud WAN optimization products, including a partnership between Riverbed and Akamai to tackle SaaS performance.
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Week of 25 Apr 2011 Force10 creates distributed core for new data center network fabric (26 Apr 2011)
A new data center network fabric from Force10 Networks offers a 2 RU switch that customers can deploy in large numbers as a "distributed core."
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Week of 18 Apr 2011 A new Cisco network management strategy: Cisco Prime (20 Apr 2011)
Cisco Prime, the new Cisco network management strategy and brand, comes with lots of promises about interconnected management products alongside hardware and support services.
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Week of 11 Apr 2011 Network path analysis aids firewall management, troubleshooting (14 Apr 2011)
Athena PathFinder's network path analysis capabilities can show how firewall, router and switch configurations affect packet flow through a network.
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Week of 04 Apr 2011 Alcatel-Lucent debuts monster data center switch fabric architecture (05 Apr 2011)
Alcatel-Lucent debuted a data center switch fabric that rivals leading vendors for scale, density and ultra-low server-to-server latency.
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Week of 28 Mar 2011 Multihop FCoE highlights Cisco's data center network product blitz (31 Mar 2011)
Multihop FCoE highlighted a laundry list of new Cisco data center network products, inching the market closer to data center network convergence from the edge to the core.
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Week of 21 Mar 2011 Aruba's unified network architecture addresses consumerization of IT (24 Mar 2011)
Aruba's new unified network management architecture aims to solve the consumerization of IT conundrum. With employee-owned mobile devices flooding the network, Aruba is advocating unified,...
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Week of 14 Mar 2011 Cloud-based networking hardware: Coming to a wiring closet near you? (16 Mar 2011)
Cloud-based networking hardware has gained traction in the wireless LAN market, but now vendors are developing wired network devices that are cloud-managed, too. Will cloud-based network...
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Week of 28 Feb 2011 Using network management tools to catch mistakes of non-engineers (02 Mar 2011)
Sometimes the biggest network disasters are caused by non-engineers doing things they shouldn't. Network management tools, including network monitoring, configuration management and network discovery...
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Week of 21 Feb 2011 Juniper's Project Stratus reinvents data center network architecture (24 Feb 2011)
Juniper Networks lifted the veil off its new data center network architecture. Project Stratus is now QFabric, a giant, abstracted data center switch that connects all storage and compute elements in...
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Week of 14 Feb 2011 New Cisco network security architecture has next-generation firewall (16 Feb 2011)
With its new network security architecture, SecureX, Cisco tries to transcend next-generation firewall hype by focusing on more than application awareness. It's all about the context of who, what,...
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Week of 07 Feb 2011 Cisco, Extreme join OpenStack to address cloud network technology gap (09 Feb 2011)
Cloud networking has taken a back seat to compute and storage in the cloud computing industry, but vendors like Cisco and Extreme know that cloud network standards are essential to successful...
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Week of 31 Jan 2011 Using hardware load balancers for Web-based apps: One school’s story (04 Feb 2011)
When a large school system launched a Web-facing student information server, its IT organization deployed its first hardware load balancers within its data center network.
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Week of 24 Jan 2011 Wireless IPS must detect non-Wi-Fi wireless LAN security threats (27 Jan 2011)
Wireless IPS has traditionally policed Wi-Fi frequencies for wireless LAN security threats, such as rogue and misconfigured access points, but many enterprises need these products to look beyond...
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Week of 17 Jan 2011 Firewall management software simplifies firewall rules (17 Jan 2011)
Firewall management software allowed an information security executive to clean up firewall rules within his organization and impose firewall change management policy.
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Week of 10 Jan 2011 New Cisco 8-port switch series simplifies campus network design (13 Jan 2011)
Cisco's new line of Catalyst C-Series switches promise to simplify campus network design. The 8-port switches offer advanced management and security features beyond the wiring closet.
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Week of 03 Jan 2011 Networking outlook 2011: Network virtualization, wireless, security (05 Jan 2011)
Leading analysts share their predictions for top networking trends in 2011, including data center networks, wireless LANs, network security and network management.
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Week of 20 Dec 2010 Combining network configuration and IP address management tools (22 Dec 2010)
A large convention center and hotel dumped unwieldy spreadsheets and whiteboards to adopt network configuration management and IP address management tools. With NCM and IPAM, the networking team was...
‘Captain America’ tops list of geek movies to watch in 2011 (SearchDataManagement.com | 23 Dec 2010)
Geeks from the world of IT and the comic book industry join forces to give their picks for the most anticipated geek movies of 2011.
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Week of 13 Dec 2010 Top networking news 2010: Data center networks and multi-vendor mania (15 Dec 2010)
In our review of top networking news of 2010, see how we covered the rise of the multi-vendor network, major changes in data center networks and security, the emergence of ubiquitous wireless LAN and...
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Week of 06 Dec 2010 Cisco, Juniper acquire virtual network automation and security vendors (07 Dec 2010)
Virtual server network automation and security are increasingly important to enterprises. Juniper and Cisco beefed up their virtual server networking capabilities in recent days with acquisitions of...
Multi-vendor networks more prominent than ever (09 Dec 2010)
With HP Networking and Juniper showing Cisco legitimate competition, multi-vendor networks are increasingly a key element for network vendor management best practices.
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Week of 29 Nov 2010 NetFlow v9 is powerful, so why isn’t anyone using it? (01 Dec 2010)
NetFlow v9 has been around for a few years and is far more powerful than previous versions of the protocol, but few people are using it. NetFlow collector and analyzer vendors and networking pros are...
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Week of 22 Nov 2010 Zero day protection with network access control, intrusion prevention (23 Nov 2010)
A global executive relocation service provider improved its zero-day protection capabilities with a combination of network access control and an intrusion prevention system.
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Week of 15 Nov 2010 Brocade rolls out first switches for Layer 2 data center fabrics (17 Nov 2010)
Enterprises see large Layer 2 data center fabrics as the future of virtual server networking. Data center network infrastructure vendors are inching toward delivering this technology. Brocade's VDX...
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Week of 01 Nov 2010 40 GbE uptake will ride 10 Gigabit server adoption wave (03 Nov 2010)
40 GbE will make its way into data center networks as enterprises adopt large numbers of racks with 10 GbE server connectivity. 10 Gigabit servers will drive up port density and eventually force...
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Week of 25 Oct 2010 Network security infrastructure consolidation: What's your strategy? (26 Oct 2010)
Network security hardware and software vendors are offering enterprises options to consolidate network security infrastructure so that they can reduce management overhead and power consumption in the...
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Week of 18 Oct 2010 Avnet's HealthPath: Healthcare IT training for solution providers (SearchNetworkingChannel.com | 18 Oct 2010)
Before planning to offer healthcare networking services, it's important that you understand the market. But how can you fully educate yourself? Avnet's HealthPath University provides hands-on...
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Week of 11 Oct 2010 How will wireless LAN equipment vendors use freed up TV white spaces? (13 Oct 2010)
The TV white spaces spectrum released by the FCC will lead to a new wave of wireless LAN equipment innovation with wireless LAN access points capable of operating in traditional Wi-FI frequencies as...
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Week of 04 Oct 2010 Cisco Borderless Networks: Complete solution or marketing hype? (07 Oct 2010)
Cisco's Borderless Networks strategy promises customers a new paradigm for supporting enterprise mobility and ensuring mobile network security. However, network engineers are struggling to understand...
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Week of 27 Sep 2010 Home network labs can buff up a network engineer resume (30 Sep 2010)
Network labs in the home or in the office are essential to building your networking skills. If you want a strong network engineer resume, you need access to a network lab full of routers and switches.
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Week of 20 Sep 2010 Next-generation firewalls not ready to replace all legacy firewalls (23 Sep 2010)
Application-aware firewalls enhance network security by offering deeper visibility, but enterprises will hang on to old-style firewalls.
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Week of 13 Sep 2010 Cisco, Brocade continue data center network convergence push (15 Sep 2010)
Data center network convergence remains on the agenda for networking vendors. Cisco's new Nexus 5500 switches offer FCoE port provisioning options while Brocade's new network management software...
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Week of 06 Sep 2010 One city goes mesh wireless on a private fiber optic ring network (09 Sep 2010)
Replacing its WAN with a private fiber optic ring network, the city of Alexandria, La, laid the foundation for a Wi-Fi-based wireless mesh network and improved its security and compliance posture.
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Week of 30 Aug 2010 Using cheap network switches from commodity vendors in your LAN (02 Sep 2010)
Cheap network switches from commodity vendors that use commercially available silicon can help you save money in your LAN network design when budgets are tight. Some networking pros are considering...
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Week of 16 Aug 2010 New traffic shaping feature offers simple wireless QoS (19 Aug 2010)
A new application-aware wireless traffic shaping feature from wireless LAN vendor Meraki simplifies wireless QoS for enterprise customers, allowing network admins to set bandwidth utilization...
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Week of 09 Aug 2010 Building an outdoor wireless LAN for a roving worksite (11 Aug 2010)
The crew of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition built a new Wi-Fi network with outdoor wireless access points. It travels with them across the country.
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Week of 02 Aug 2010 HP CEO Hurd resigns in scandal with networking business at critical transition point (ITKnowledgeExchange.com | 06 Aug 2010)
With HP Networking at a critical transition point following the 3Com acquisition, HP CEO Mark Hurd has resigned amidst a scandal. How will this affect the networking buisness?
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