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	Cisco layoffs expected soon Cisco could be just weeks away from laying off as many as 5,000 people, an analyst wrote in a bulletin this week. The layoff would be one of the largest in Cisco's history and represent 7% of its workforce, notes All Things Digital. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Visualization of an Intricate Network The Depository Trust & Clearing House required enhanced network visibility to support their custody and asset servicing valued at $40 trillion. See how Riverbed provided: • End-to-end visibility of encrypted traffic • Lower MTTR • Application and network activity analysis without requiring probes on every WAN link Learn more! In this Issue IPv6 Deployment Misperception: I can do the minimum at my Internet Edge and get by NASA sets up robotic satellite refueling experiment on International Space Station Miscellaneous Thoughts from the First Day at Cisco Live this Year Avaya offers help addressing social-media blowback Will keyboards type out death knell for cursive writing? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remote Support for PCs, Macs, Tablets and Smartphones Provide instant, on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue. Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs and smartphones anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try Rescue free, today. IPv6 Deployment Misperception: I can do the minimum at my Internet Edge and get by As we continue to work through my list of the Top 5 IPv6 Misconceptions, the No. 4 entry is what I call "taking the easy way out" when it comes to deploying IPv6 at your Internet edge. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems SAP Deployments over the WAN: The User Performance Issues A combination of foundation technologies such as compression, protocol acceleration and byte caching, along with a close and strategic partnership with SAP, deliver improved performance and reduced bandwidth requirements for SAP deployments. Read now! NASA sets up robotic satellite refueling experiment on International Space Station The idea that the International Space Station could be used as a port-of-call for passing satellites that need fuel or repairs took one step closer to reality as NASA astronauts set up the robotic experiment in orbit today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Top 2 Virtualization Challenges Virtualized data centers must become more highly available to ensure timely access to data. This paper examines the trends toward server consolidation and how WAN optimization technology can address application performance and information availability issues. Read now! Miscellaneous Thoughts from the First Day at Cisco Live this Year As usual at Networkers, my schedule's a little tight to write something thorough about what's come up at the show this week. But even on the first full day of the show Monday, there were a couple of tidbits that came up that I think matter to the Cisco cert world - if not immediately, then sometime down the road. Today I'll give you a few quick hits from what I've heard so far. Read More Avaya offers help addressing social-media blowback Avaya is betting businesses want to respond as quickly as possible to attacks and criticisms launched from Twitter, Facebook and blogs in order to minimize the negative impact they have. Read More Will keyboards type out death knell for cursive writing? Keyboard typing and messaging are the way of future no doubt but at the cost of cursive writing? That seems to be the trend as Indiana this week became one of a number of states that no longer require cursive to be taught, but rather require typing skills instead. Read More
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