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Cisco's small-cell move is focused, but its network aims are ambitious
Cisco's long-anticipated entry into cellular base stations will come at Mobile World Congress next week, along with the company's familiar promise of an end-to-end architecture. Read More

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802.11n Primer Kit for Troubleshooting Wireless Network
Take the confusion out of 802.11n. With this kit you'll go from developing a baseline and testing your WLAN design to managing signals and users to administering and troubleshooting your WLAN. You'll also learn which 802.11n features are recommended for Greenfield and mixed-mode environments so that you can choose those that are right for you. With this kit and you'll go from developing a baseline and testing your WLAN design to managing signals and users to administering and troubleshooting your WLAN.

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WHITE PAPER: Egnyte

Global Collaboration Without VPN
Learn how Learfield Communication has leveraged a combination of over 50 local storage devices and the cloud to provide access to files from any of these local storage devices to employees using smartphones, tablets, and computers even when these devices don't have a network connection. Read Now!

Small-cell goodness will depend on crucial, complicated backhaul links
Adding small cells to mobile networks made up of full-sized base stations should help to fuel more voice and data calls, but outdoors, linking those dispersed cells to wired networks presents its own problems. Read More

F5's SDN investment puts it in play with Cisco, Juniper
Network acceleration vendor F5's recent purchase of LineRate Systems, a startup specializing in software-defined networking technology, is both a near-term attempt to associate itself with a hot industry technology and a canny look ahead to the future, according to experts. Read More

Ditch the PDF headaches: Three safer, speedier Adobe Reader alternatives
Another day, another critical security exploit discovered for Adobe Reader. Ho-hum. The PDF software's near-ubiquitous presence has made it a big, fat, juicy target for years now, and by this point, you shouldn't be asking what Adobe's going to do to shore up its perpetually leaky program. Instead, you should ask yourself: Why are you still using Adobe Reader at all? Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Easing the Online Overload
Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now!

Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible
Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones and tablets. Read More

F5 jumps into BYOD with new app manager
F5 Networks on Tuesday will announce a mobile app manager product aimed at simplifying the integration of the omnipresent personal smartphone into corporate networks. Read More

Kaspersky apologizes for antivirus update that continues to disrupt customer nets
Kaspersky Lab's flawed anti-malware update that went out Feb. 5 for the Kaspersky Endpoint Security product continues to cause serious disruptions in enterprise networks. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

End-To-End Application Acceleration Technologies
Download this 7-page survey-driven analysis by Forrester to learn how to overcome cloud-related performance issues by extending optimization to SaaS applications. Read now.

ZyXEL integrates Alcatel-Lucent's small cell software
ZyXEL Communications will use software from Alcatel-Lucent to integrate mobile networking into its home networking equipment. Read More

Buffalo sets February launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive
Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world's fastest transfer speed. Read More

Opera acquires Skyfire Labs for faster mobile video delivery
Browser developer Opera Software will acquire Skyfire Labs, which develops technology to speed video delivery over mobile networks, the companies said Friday. Read More

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