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	Alcatel-Lucent enterprise on the block again? Reports that IP telephony/Ethernet gear unit is being shopped around for second time in three years Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Application Performance in a World of Cloud and Mobility Cloud, mobility, and networking have shifted the dynamics of application performance. As a result, IT is under more pressure than ever to improve application performance. Learn how to ensure that employees and customers can access applications effectively without being forced to expend more resources on network upgrades. Read more >> In this Issue Lonely week for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Cisco competitors say Nexus 9000 brings closed hardware to an open software game First look: The Cisco/Insieme family Quick look: The hot Asian space industry 10 amazing facts about the world's largest radio telescope 802.11ad: Progress at Last Why Sonus expanded the role of its Session Border Controller F5 Networks answers a complex SDN question 10 companies making the Internet of Things a reality Stealthy startup at root of Riverbed brain drain WHITE PAPER: Spirent Communications Challenges for Modern Networks Built Using SDN and OpenFlow The Testing Challenges of SDN and OpenFlow white paper Covers Emerging network deployment scenarios, Current shifts in traffic type crossing networks and Challenges with Cost, Agility and Design. Read Now Lonely week for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Perhaps overlooked in all of the Insieme/Arista news this week are references to Cisco's venerable Catalyst 6500 switch. Read More Cisco competitors say Nexus 9000 brings closed hardware to an open software game Cisco's network competitors VMware, Arista and HP predictably found holes in this week's launch of the Insieme Networks product line and strategy. Read More First look: The Cisco/Insieme family Cisco's Nexus 9000 product line, developed by spin-in Insieme Networks, is the company's response to the SDN craze Read More WEBCAST: CDNetworks Reaching China with Your Website & Cloud Application Reaching customers and employees with cloud applications when they are located in emerging markets (such as Russia, Indonesia, Brazil and China) poses a major challenge. Learn how a CDN can help you not only deliver a fast download of your website and web applications even in China, but can also help you manage content and regulatory issues. View Now Quick look: The hot Asian space industry Asian countries of India, China and Japan are in a space race Read More 10 amazing facts about the world's largest radio telescope The massive effort that will ultimately bring together the world largest radio telescope got a little more focused this week. The organization running the venture picked some three hundred and fifty scientists and engineers, representing 18 nations and drawn from nearly one hundred institutions, universities and industry to complete the design phase of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Project. Read... Read More 802.11ad: Progress at Last Almost two years ago, I wrote in these pages of my fondness for 60-GHz. radio, and my belief that .11ad would eventually play a major role in wireless LANs and not just outdoor point-to-point links, HDMI cable replacement, and short-range docking solutions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Wan Deduplication: Getting More by Sending Less Recently, data deduplication has made its way from the storage to the networking community. More specifically, it has become an important tool for optimizing application performance across the WAN. This paper discusses how WAN deduplication works, and how it can be effectively deployed as a complement to existing storage deduplication solutions. Learn more >> Why Sonus expanded the role of its Session Border Controller While much of the technology news this week has been dominated by data center announcements, there is more to IT than software-defined networks. This week, session border controller vendor Sonus announced the version 4.0 release of its flagship SBC 5000 product line. Read More F5 Networks answers a complex SDN question One of the primary value propositions of Software Defined Networks (SDNs) is that it optimizes the performance of the applications that run on networks today. However, almost all of the SDN-related products that have been released to date operate at layer 2/3 which, of course, have no direct relevance to applications. I agree that if there's congestion or something else impacting performance at those... Read More 10 companies making the Internet of Things a reality The first ever Internet of Things World Forum was held in Barcelona over the last week of October. If there was any doubt, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a very real trend and it's just a matter of time before IoT has a significant impact on the way we live our lives. These were the top 10 companies on display at the World Forum, many of which are helping IoT move from vision to reality. Read More Stealthy startup at root of Riverbed brain drain Network management and WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technologies has had a pretty successful year, in some respects – the company finalized a billion-dollar acquisition of Opnet Technologies, broadened its product lineup, and was the only company to make the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner's magic quadrant report for the WANop sector. Read More
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