U.S. Internet connection speeds still lag behind other developed nations

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	U.S. Internet connection speeds still lag behind other developed nations The average U.S. Internet connection speed continues to lag behind that of many other developed nations, according to the latest State of the Internet report from CDN and cloud service provider Akamai. Read More : Citrix Systems eGuide: WAN Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World examines the benefits of WAN virtualization and some recent trends in this area. Read on to learn how WAN virtualization can help your organization. Learn More In this Issue F5's new CEO, Manny Rivelo, on where the company goes next INSIDER Review: Free and low-cost Wi-Fi stumblers for the Mac Hackers show off long-distance Wi-Fi radio proxy at DEF CON Carriers all in on SDN... Almost Microsoft, Salesforce.com join $5.3 billion Informatica buyout Qualcomm bets on superfast broadband over copper with latest acquisition F5's Synthesis gets cloudy with Big-IP 12.0 WHITE PAPER: Red Hat, Dell & SAP Agility, Simplicity, Modernization CIOs today have more responsibility than ever to fulfilling business: increasing revenue growth, reducing operating costs and driving productivity improvements. Read how vendors are creating state-of-the-art systems to accommodate these systems in one solution. Learn More F5's new CEO, Manny Rivelo, on where the company goes next Manny Rivelo officially took over as CEO of F5 July 1st, stepping into the big shoes of John McAdam, who grew the company from $109 million in 2000 to the $1.7 billion behemoth it is today. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Rivelo to see what he has in store for the application delivery networking company. Read More INSIDER Review: Free and low-cost Wi-Fi stumblers for the Mac We recently reviewed low-cost Windows-based Wi-Fi stumblers. Now, here's our take on wireless stumblers that run on Mac OS X for all you Apple fans. (Insider Story) Read More WEBCAST: Symantec Video Capsule - The Endpoint Security Paradox In this ESG Video Capsule, ESG Senior Analyst Jon Oltsik discusses ESG's recent research on endpoint security. View Now Hackers show off long-distance Wi-Fi radio proxy at DEF CON A talk about a radio-based privacy device dubbed ProxyHam that promised to allow hackers to connect to Wi-Fi networks from as far as 2.5 miles away was abruptly pulled from the DEF CON schedule by its creator a few weeks ago. Read More Carriers all in on SDN... Almost Most network operators have either already deployed SDN, are now deploying SDN, or plan to evaluate it in 2015. That's the finding of a recent survey of worldwide carriers by IHS, formerly Infonetics. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Leveraging the Cloud for Your Social Business Workloads Today, "social business" - a broad term that describes how social, mobile, and other technologies facilitate enhanced employee, customer, and partner engagement - has transformed the way we do business. Read this Frost & Sullivan whitepaper to learn why the cloud is one of the key reasons for this rapid transformation. Learn More Microsoft, Salesforce.com join $5.3 billion Informatica buyout Data-integration giant Informatica has made itself a private company in a $5.3 billion deal that includes investments from Microsoft and Salesforce.com. Read More Qualcomm bets on superfast broadband over copper with latest acquisition Qualcomm has entered into an agreement to acquire Ikanos Communications in order to speed up its efforts to build home gateways with integrated support for G.fast, which promises to offer hundreds of megabit per second over copper. Read More F5's Synthesis gets cloudy with Big-IP 12.0 F5, the de facto standard and market leader in application delivery controllers (ADCs), is holding its annual "Agility" event in Washington, D.C. At the event, the company took the covers off version 12.0 (formerly known as Badger) of its application delivery software, Big-IP. Read More
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