Cisco's Q3: revenue rises 5%, profit falls 18%; Neat Net Stories from Vint Cerf

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	Cisco's Q3: revenue rises 5%, profit falls 18% Julie Bort: Cisco reported its Q3 earnings and it was bleak as expected. Net income fell nearly 18% to $1.8 billion (33 cents/share) vs. $2.19 billion (37 cents/share) a year earlier. Revenue rose about 5% to $10.9 billion from the year earlier. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term Success Today's enterprises face a complex networking environment, often with multiple network protocols. Read this IDC Executive Brief to see how multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) facilitates cost-effective and converged wide area networking with a high level of security, management, and flexibility. Read now! In this Issue Neat Net Stories from Vint Cerf and Dan Lynch at Interop Interop 2011: HP 8200 switch, a sad Startup Alley and too much cloud HP To Cisco: "We Try Harder" Best Tidbit from Interop: Amazon is Hiring! The Network And The Cloud Cisco's Yen left Juniper for personal reasons Cisco CIUS tablet to be sold by AT&T OpenFlow Buzz at Interop ICND1 - Video Training #7 Startup rolls out 40G data center switches at Interop WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! Neat Net Stories from Vint Cerf and Dan Lynch at Interop Wendell Odom: Interstellar networks. Turning off the old protocols on the Internet, for a day, to encourage the adoption of the "new" TCP/IP protocols. These topics, and more, were part of an interesting pair of discussions at Interop yesterday with Vint Cerf Dan Lynch. Read More Interop 2011: HP 8200 switch, a sad Startup Alley and too much cloud Larry Chaffin: The HP Procurve 8200 switch was on the Interop show floor. It has an optical backplane and is very cool. Read More HP To Cisco: "We Try Harder" Jon Oltsik: Yesterday at Interop, HP General Manager and EVP Dave Donatelli did something unusual in his keynote address. He mocked Cisco for its lack of innovation and high pricing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Level 3 Evaluating the Benefits of a Converged Business Network By converging your networks, you can reap the advantages of business transformation through integration of network access, communications applications, and core business applications. Industry analyst firm IDC outlines the advantages of convergence and what to look for in your network service provider. Read More Today! Best Tidbit from Interop: Amazon is Hiring! Wendell Odom: It's the last day of the Interop show, and I happened by the Amazon booth. They are hiring in IT groups all over Amazons business units. With many jobs good matches for those working on Cisco certs. Read More The Network And The Cloud Jon Oltsik: As expected, cloud computing is all the rage at Interop 2011 here in the anti-green capital of the world, Las Vegas Nevada. For the most part, this discussion is nothing but hype but there's one interesting theme best summarized by Citrix -- Service Delivery Networks. Read More Cisco's Yen left Juniper for personal reasons Jim Duffy: David Yen left Juniper for personal reasons. QFabric, which is really Founder and CTO Pradeep Sindhu's baby, will go on without him and his departure does not signal anything amiss in Juniper's data center/cloud fabric strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The Antidote to DNS Cache Poisoning and Other DNS Attacks Domain Name System (DNS) provides one of the most basic but critical functions on the Internet. If DNS isn't working, then your business likely isn't either. Secure your business and web presence with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). Learn more! Cisco CIUS tablet to be sold by AT&T Julie Bort: AT&T announced that it will be offering the Cisco Cius Android tablet to its business customers for AT&T's HSPA+ network in the fall of 2011. Read More OpenFlow Buzz at Interop Wendell Odom: At Interop I took a closer look at a new initiative called OpenFlow. Here's a summary of how it works and what problems it solves. Read More ICND1 - Video Training #7 Kevin Wallace: This video is the first in a series of four focusing on IP addressing. The four videos are: (1) Binary Numbering Review, (2) Basic Subnetting, (3) Advanced Subnetting, and (4) Introduction to IPv6. Read More Startup rolls out 40G data center switches at Interop Tucked way in the back corner of the exhibition floor in a tiny cubicle, Gnodal Limited, a startup data center switch vendor from Bristol, U.K., unveiled its initial Ethernet offerings at Interop 2011 this week. Read More
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