Cisco's potential layoff: 2,000 jobs at risk?

Cisco unleashes Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Infoblox Take Control of Network TCO by Automating IPAM Growing networks are in a vicious circle of rising costs, increasing downtime, and rising staff stress. Join Enterprise Strategy Group's Jon Oltsik, for this information-packed webinar on how enterprises can reduce stress and operational expenses by automating IPAM, listen today. Spotlight Story This is Network World's Cisco Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your daily source for Cisco news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Cisco's potential layoff: 2,000 jobs at risk? At Cisco's analyst conference call on Wednesday Cisco CEO John Chambers hinted that some kind of layoff could be in the works. But if you are looking for a silver lining, maybe it is this: the job cuts should be modest, as part of a normal restructuring in which perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 job will get the kibosh out of Cisco's total current headcount of 67,318. Read more. Related News: More from Cisco Subnet: Cisco Tweeps on Twitter, the official list Cisco earnings: you want the good news or the bad news? Cisco releases four security patches for its WLAN controller Avaya calculator shows how green your company is From our bloggers: Brad Reese on Cisco: Cisco unleashes Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz Perhaps popular Valentine's Day consumer gift items like the Reese's Peanut Butter Heart will be taking back seats this year to a much more exciting gift, why? Because it appears Cisco is unleashing a Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz, according to a report by Ira Pumfkin over at Tech Edge Weekly. Michael Morris From the Field: Complete End-to-End Nexus Data Center Design ... (Ok, almost end-to-end!!!) As I mentioned in a blog a couple weeks ago about the Cisco ASR line, we are building a new data center right now using the Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 series switches. Jamey Heary: Cisco Security Expert: Cisco updates it SSLVPN solution with performance improvements and Windows Mobile support Cisco recently released a new version of its Anyconnect SSLVPN client that adds support for Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.0 and 5.0 touch-screen devices. The new Anyconnect 2.3 Windows Mobile requires a special license and must have ASA Release 8.0.3 or higher running on the security appliance. Anyconnect 2.3 also includes new support for machine certificates and Head-end controlled client preferences templates as well as faster connect time for end-users. Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: OSPF Puzzle, Part II – Analyzing OSPF Metrics, Human Style As is the case in many parts of the computing world, computers often use different methods for coming up with an answer than we humans would use. Today, I'll take a closer look at the OSPF puzzle I began last week, today from a human perspective. Next post, I'll look at it from a router perspective, which means we'll get into some gory detail on OSPF LSAs again. Larry Chaffin: Putting the realism into your network:The Cisco SPA525G IP Phone for the UC520 and SMB Market. Wireless and Bluetooth... The Cisco SPA525G IP phone is a new wired and wireless phone for the SMB market. While it can be used in other settings I see this as a true phone for SMB companies who do not want to run expensive wiring. For those companies who want to add phones this can provide a great value add as it will be eliminate the use of wiring. The mobility of the phone will allow customers to move phones as they see fit and enable employees to be more mobile in the office. Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: Qualiity of Service: Queuing In this blog, we will begin to explore the topic of queuing in QoS. The words queue and queuing may be foreign to you at this time because we do not use this terminology in everyday life in the United States. A queue is synonymous to a line. A queue (or line) normally forms because the servicing mechanism is congested. If you go to the bank and wait on line (queue), it’s because there are no available tellers. In data networks, queues form because the output interface is congested (12Mbps cannot fit on a 10Mbps interface. Instead of dropping traffic, routers and switches will queue packets into an output queue and all new packets go through the queuing system. Jimmy Ray Purser: Networking geek to geek: Cisco updates it SSLVPN solution with performance improvements and Windows Mobile support Cisco recently released a new version of its Anyconnect SSLVPN client that adds support for Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.0 and 5.0 touch-screen devices. The new Anyconnect 2.3 Windows Mobile requires a special license and must have ASA Release 8.0.3 or higher running on the security appliance. Anyconnect 2.3 also includes new support for machine certificates and Head-end controlled client preferences templates as well as faster connect time for end-users.. Brandon Carroll: Author expert: Wireless Terminology and 802.11 Protocols In my last post I only introduced myself, and the CCNA Wireless Certification. In this post I want to lay the groundwork regarding some of the terminology used in Wireless Networking. Hot discussions among Cisco Subnet readers: Are these the real reasons for the fall of Nortel? Cisco distributor says customers demanding HP ProCurve 9 Cool Geek Tips I Just Can't Function Without Cisco unleashes Valentine's Day gift marketing blitz Complete End-to-End Nexus Data Center Design ... (Ok, almost end-to-end!!!) Getting Started with the CCNA Wireless February freebies and giveaways: Win free books: 1. 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