Cisco betters its best-selling Catalyst Ethernet switch

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	Cisco betters its best-selling Catalyst Ethernet switch Cisco this week upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Network protection and UTM Buyers Guide This buyers guide is designed to help you choose the right solution for your organization. It looks at the factors you should consider when evaluating solutions to ensure you have the protection and functionality you need, both now and as your business evolves. View Now In this Issue Knocking down MPLS myths, concluded IBM shows off nickel-sized chip that backs Gb/sec wireless data-rates, cutting edge radar images F5 bridges the physical and virtual worlds at Microsoft Tech Ed Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV): A Little Fun in the Lab Why Blue Coat acquired Solera Networks Jumbo Frames WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Redefining Performance Management Video See Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Assoc., Doug Roberts, Managing Director of Product Strategy, and Bruce Kosbab, CTO, Fluke Networks discussing how TruView redefines enterprise performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Learn More Knocking down MPLS myths, concluded We've now spent a number of columns covering the issues surrounding the myths of why enterprises "need" MPLS. We'll conclude this topic by addressing the issue of having a single place to point the finger when something goes wrong with the WAN. Read More IBM shows off nickel-sized chip that backs Gb/sec wireless data-rates, cutting edge radar images IBM says it has packed an integrated circuit about the size of a nickel with technology that can enable gigabit/sec mobile data-rate and clutter-cutting radar image applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 802.11ac Network-Readiness Checklist Products based on the upcoming 802.11ac standard are going to dominate the enterprise WLAN landscape so, what should organizations do today to prepare? This technical checklist offers a framework for evaluating the features and benefits of 802.11ac for establishing a roll out plan. Read Now F5 bridges the physical and virtual worlds at Microsoft Tech Ed At this year's Tech Ed, Application Deliver Controller vendor F5 is demonstrating new features that can bridge the gap between the physical, virtual and cloud environments. Read More Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV): A Little Fun in the Lab Recently I've done a few labs with OTV in them. Each time, however, I had an OTV SME (subject matter expert) in the lab with me. They configured it and it just "worked magically". No hiccups. No gotchas. Read More WEBCAST: Ipswitch, Inc VIDEO: Layer 2 Discovery & Asset Reporting WhatsUp Gold includes Layer 2 discovery as part of the core product bringing you automatically generated Layer 2 topology maps, IT asset reporting, current & historical network documentation, and easy-to-use troubleshooting tools. All of this available within the same interface as all your network management data. View now. Why Blue Coat acquired Solera Networks A few weeks ago, Blue Coat Systems acquired Solera Networks. No one was surprised about the acquisition of Solera as it plays in the white hot big data security analytics market. That said, many people remain perplexed by the acquiring company. Several dozen reporters, vendors, and end users have already posed a common question to me: Why Blue Coat? Read More Jumbo Frames Many networks use 1500-byte MTU size, but the MTU size can be reduced by encapsulation, tunneling or other overlay network protocols. These situations reduce the end-to-end effective MTU size which reduces throughput and network efficiency and sometimes causes application problems. Many network devices now support larger sizes of Ethernet frames and use of Jumbo Frames is becoming more common.... Read More
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