Cisco rival Extreme exiting network stage? Extreme Networks last week bid adieu to its CEO and 9% of its workforce -- or about 70 people -- before announcing today that its first quarter fell far short of expectations. It begs the question of whether Extreme, with a flat 1.5% revenue share of the $19 billion Ethernet switching market for the past two years, can continue to survive at this pace. Dell, Juniper team on data center technology Dell and Juniper Networks this week reached an OEM agreement that will let Dell offer Juniper products to data center customers under its PowerConnect brand. Next-Generation Firewall Service - What are the necessary pieces here? role of next-generation firewall in tomorrow's borderless networksWell, the reality is that view that we have of anything as next-generation is a moving target. our view for that entity changes over time, largely fueled by innovation (and in some ways the service packaging). L4-L7 Service Deployment, How big is that a problem? service deployment, L4-L7, appliance, nat, firewall, sbcDeploying services in an Enterprise or SP (for their customers, either via hosted, managed) is an absolute reality and something that has tendency to disrupt the network topology (think of deploying a Layer 3 / Routed Firewall, which becomes the default gateway). Common services that we see deployed are NAT, Firewall, SBC, DPI, and many more. Usualy ways of deploying services today are: a)via service... Locator / ID Separation Protocol (LISP) - How soon would you like to see it deployed? Internet, data center interconnect, data center, multi-homing branch and head-endNo, this post is not about the LISP programming language... it's rather about the locator/id separation protocol proposed by four Cisco engineers at the IETF forum for "Experimental" track couple of years ago! Excerpt from their IETF draft, that defines it: Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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