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Friday, June 05, 2009

Pip-squeak competitor grabs AT&T VoIP deal; Cisco unveils rack server for UCS

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Cisco loses $1M AT&T Park deal to pip-squeak competitor

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.

"Six weeks ago, pure IP unified communications systems vendor ShoreTel bragged about winning a unified communications deal from competitors at AT&T Park - the home of the San Francisco Giants," writes blogger Brad Reese. One of those competitors was Cisco "and the deal was worth $1 million."

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The Dual Stack Dilemma
Jeff Doyle, IP Routing: "We are entering the transitional period between IPv4 and IPv6, and things are going to get awkward for a while. I know of two very large service providers whose requests for new IPv4 allocations were, in the last couple of months, denied."

Switch QoS: Classification and Marking Example
Dennis Hartmann, Cisco Unified Communications: Once QoS is deployed, the next Internet work or denial of service attack can only utilize the resources that are not currently being utilized for good traffic receiving a bandwidth guarantee.

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Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: For newbies, the question is, should you use Dynamips as your primary hands-on learning tool for CCNA prep?

Too Many IOS Versions, Something's Gotta Give Soon
Michael Morris, From the Field: "Back when I worked in network operations at AT&T, I was (strangely) proud that I knew all the different versions, feature sets, and varieties of Cisco IOS. However, now, all the different versions of IOS are making me sick."

Could The Cisco Plublic Telepresence Suites be over before it got started?
Larry Chaffin, Putting Realism Into Your Network: "I have been watching the Cisco Public Telepresence Site for some time now to see if anything new would come out. But since it has gone up there has been little in updates, little updates of content and new sites."

Top 4 Tips to Fight Off Botnet Denial of Service Attacks
Jamey Heary, Cisco Security Expert: "The shear size of today's botnets has reached into the mind-boggling realm of 1.9 million bots in a single botnet. Couple that with the fact that botnet DDoS attacks are one of the hardest assaults to defend against and you have a real nightmare scenario on your hands. "

Forget Five-9s – Go for 100%
Scott Hogg, Core Networking and Security: "Network uptime is critical. Instead of striving for five-9s of reliability (99.999%) why not just aim for 100% availability because that is what the requirements dictate? That begs the question, how would you design a data network if the goal was to achieve 100% availability?"

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