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Thursday, October 09, 2014

Passpoint Wi-Fi system makes it even easier to roam between hotspots

Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN | 'Unlawful' WiFi hotspot blocking ruling highlights academic IT headaches

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Passpoint Wi-Fi system makes it even easier to roam between hotspots
Jumping from one Wi-Fi hotspot to the next will be easier, thanks to an expansion of the Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program to streamline the formation of new accounts. Read More


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Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN
For those not familiar with iWAN, it's Cisco's implementation and powered by PfR (Performance Routing). As powerful as iWAN is, many customers have not taken advantage of it because it's difficult to get set up and hard to manage. Read More

'Unlawful' WiFi hotspot blocking ruling highlights academic IT headaches
Managing the wireless environment at the average college or university can be a difficult task at the best of times, and when students and staff start using personal hotspots – the sort that provide wireless data access from the same -- it's not the best of times. Read More

Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear
VCE, the converged infrastructure consortium of Cisco and EMC, this week unveiled new and enhanced data center IT systems, including an all-flash memory platform for mixed workloads. Read More


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Best Practices for Automation and Limiting Risk
Everyone knows that effective network management practices start with establishing a full foundational understanding of the network. But simply monitoring individual elements can only get you so far. Learn More

Should Cisco make like HP, and split?
Wall Street analyst says it would kick company into gear. Read More

VMware's Casado talks about evolving SDN use cases, including a prominent role for security
The company's Networking and Security Business Unit is taking off, reaching $100m in just nine months. Read More

Belkin says router outages should be resolved
Belkin said Tuesday afternoon it had fixed an issue that caused some of its Wi-Fi routers to disconnect from the Internet. Read More


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State of Cloud Security Report
In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More

Quality of Service explained: How routers with strong QoS make better home networks
The devices connected to your router battle for bandwidth like thirst-crazed beasts jostling for access to a receding watering hole. You can't see the melee, but you can feel its impact. Without intervention, the strongest competitors—a BitTorrent download, for instance—will drink their fill, even if it's not essential to their survival, while others—a VoIP call, a Netflix stream, or a YouTube video—are left to wither and die. Read More

Cisco, Acer, others join Intel-backed IoT standards group
The Open Interconnect Consortium announced it has gained 27 new members, including Cisco Systems, Acer, chip maker Mediatek and home IoT hub maker SmartThings, since it was founded in July. Read More

Marriott must pay $600,000 for blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots
Here's some payback for everyone who has felt gouged by hotel charges for Wi-Fi service: Marriott International has to pay $600,000 following a probe into whether it intentionally blocked personal Wi-Fi hotspots in order to force customers to use its own very pricey service. Read More


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