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	Cisco said to cut ties with China's ZTE Cisco has reportedly cut ties with Chinese telecom vendor ZTE after allegations that ZTE sold Cisco gear to Iran. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and Intel Management Madness: How to Manage Mobile Devices There are six major mobile operating systems in use now and each one offers its own set of security and management challenges. The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault will help you keep these devices secure on the corporate network with expert tips on management tools, endpoint security software, increasing application support and more. Learn More In this Issue Arista nabs Cisco SDN engineer Addressing WAN latency issues in application performance Army special operations wants battlefield biometric tech 10Gbps server migration: The post-Romley era Move from frame relay and ATM to Ethernet services gains speed Polycom takes a giant leap for video Juniper's MX upgrade takes us back to the future Alcatel-Lucent simplifies installation of 100M bps VDSL WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. Arista nabs Cisco SDN engineer Arista Networks has named a former Cisco engineer as its vice president of SDN engineering, and hired a CFO. The maker low latency data center and cloud switches tapped Tom Black, a vice president of engineering at Cisco for 13 years, to help drive its own SDN efforts. Read More Addressing WAN latency issues in application performance Over the last few months in this column, we've described the various technologies that make up the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, and some of the high level benefits of each. We also spent two columns on Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya, Brocade, HP Industry leaders face off and present their fabric solutions The dynamic nature of server virtualization requires a flexible data center network and a better management solution. The growth and importance of east-west traffic – application-to-application and application-to-storage - demands a super-fast and reliable data center network. View Now Army special operations wants battlefield biometric tech The US Army Special Operations group wants to find out what it takes to build rugged biometric tools it can use under battlefield conditions. Specifically the U.S. Special Operations Command issued a Request For Information from the biometric industry on how to best develop and measure the performance of rugged biometric devices it could use for a number of applications including bomb forensics and... Read More 10Gbps server migration: The post-Romley era Gigabit Ethernet has been the dominant server network option of choice for the past decade, with more than 200 million 1Gbps server ports shipped since the early 2000s. But the introduction of Intel's new Romley server platform, together with rapid adoption of virtualization options and the emergence of technologies such as Big Data, are fueling migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Read More WHITE PAPER: FandoTech Understanding Recovery vs. Continuance Understanding the difference between "disaster recovery" and "business continuance" is imperative to finding the right-fit backup, recovery and restoration solution for any organization. Consider the 4 business factors that drive RPO and RTO requirements essential to surviving unplanned outages. Learn more. Move from frame relay and ATM to Ethernet services gains speed As carriers step up the pressure on their corporate customers to migrate off older frame relay, ATM and private-line technologies and adopt IP networks, companies that make the switch are reaping the rewards of instant savings and improved service. Read More Polycom takes a giant leap for video On Monday October 8, Polycom held a technology day in New York. At that event Polycom outlined its vision, strategy for the near future, and a bevvy of new products to support its new approach. Polycom's vision of ubiquitous video collaboration is similar to that of most other video vendors, but its approach is much different. Read More Juniper's MX upgrade takes us back to the future I started the analyst part of my career way back in March of 2001. I was hired by the Yankee Group to run a group that looked at broadband services and the first report I wrote was on a technology called "IP Service Switches." These products came from companies like CoSine, Ennovate, Allegro, Celox, Shasta (acquired by Nortel) and SpringTide (acquired by Lucent), and promised to deliver scalable,... Read More Alcatel-Lucent simplifies installation of 100M bps VDSL Alcatel-Lucent has upgraded its implementation of the VDSL2 vectoring noise cancellation technology in order to make it easier to implement, and as a result let operators offer higher broadband speeds over phone lines to more users. Read More
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