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  • When router management is your worst nightmare

    Michael W. Lucas is a network engineer with decades of experience in corporate networks. Recently, Lucas authored Cisco Routers for the Desperate, which he said is "designed to be read once, and then left on top of the router until something breaks."... 

  • CA to acquire Concord Communications

    With its $330 million acquisition of Concord Communications, experts say Computer Associates reestablishes itself as a competitive threat in the network management software market. 

  • Network management outside the cocoon

    Evolution is inherent to all IT disciplines. Inertia is simply antithetical to the very concept of technology, and network management is no exception. As business needs create new demands, network managers are forced to adapt to keep pace.

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  • New switch targets data center aggregation

    Leveraging its success with Google and other high-profile customers, Force10 is launching a new 10 GigE data center aggregation switch that offers line rate switching at speeds up to 192 Gbps. 

  • A better view of LAN awareness

    Visual Networks moves into the LAN market with its new suite of Ethernet appliances. With Visual's experience in sophisticated IT management issues and technologies, analysts say it has more than a chance to compete. 

  • Network automation software offers a familiar rendition

    Opsware puts its acquisition of Rendition Networks to good use with a new network automation offering, looking to edge out competitors in the growing standardized configuration market. 

  • TAP-dancing into GigE monitoring

    As more companies turn to Gigabit Ethernet on the desktop, Network Instruments taps into the network TAPs market by guaranteeing high-volume data capture and link performance. 

  • Price-slashing could shake up WAN appliance market

    One analyst says the low price of one new large-circuit WAN application traffic management device will soon cause a ripple effect of slashed prices in the market. 

  • Sniffer update has a nose for data capture

    The company behind Sniffer offers an updated network performance tool, showing that the venerable packet analysis product could be poised for new life. 

  • Mounting IOS flaws may boost third-party vendors

    A spate of recently discovered security vulnerabilities in the software that runs Cisco's routers and switches has caught the industry's eye, but one expert explains why, for some, IOS flaws could be an opportunity.