More from Cisco Subnet: Light traffic, modest Cisco presence mark Vegas Interop Is Cisco's SAN share loss due to server entry? Catalyst 6500 has another decade or more left, Cisco hints Cisco's CRS-1 turns 5 Blue Jays sign up for Cisco StadiumVision The number of new Cisco CCIEs slip From our bloggers: Brocade and Cisco focus on channel partner profitability Brad Reese on Cisco: It appears that channel partner profitability has become a new focus for both Brocade and Cisco: Brocade's channel VP says partners are "sick and tired" of low margins.. QoS in switches: CoS trust boundaries Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: Cisco switches perform most Quality of Service (QoS) operations in hardware, while routers perform QoS functions in software. It is best practice to use the switch to perform deep packet classification and marking functionality on the switches. Free hands-on Cisco router practice with Dynamips Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: I've spent at least 25% of the space in this blog over the years on used lab gear you to practice the commands you will see on Cisco exams. So now it's time to do a more substantive discussion on emulators and simulators starting with Dynamips. Google is extending its visualization API Raffael Marty's Security Visualization: Google has made a couple of really interesting announcements around data visualization. First of all, the open wire protocol and secondly the Secure Data Connector. In addition, Salesforce announced that it has added a number of new Google Visualizations to the Google Visualization API. Aspera brings faster file downloads to media companies Larry Chaffin: Putting Realism Into Your Network: I had the chance to sit down with president and co-founder of Aspera, Michelle Munson, at Interop to learn why her company was different from other WAN acceleration companies. Aspera is a software company. Cisco, Riverbed, Juniper, Expand, Blue Coat and Fastsoft who all offer appliance-based solutions. (Network) engineering a merger Michael Morris From the Field: Earlier this week, my employer purchased another company in a $1.5 billion deal. The company we purchased is about 10% of our size in workforce and sales revenue. So, while this is not a merger of equals, there will be significant communications (networking) issues to deal with. PCI standard or not, encrypting internal PCI network traffic is a good thing Jamey Heary: Cisco Security Expert: Internal networks are notoriously insecure so why wouldn't you encrypt PCI data end to end? Companies have moved to ubiquitous access, perimeter-less networks, rendering the concept of an internal network inappropriate. Wow, I won the 2009 NPA Award Kamal Vyas: Next Gen Data Center: I was honored last week to be awarded Network Professional Association Professional (NPA) Excellence and Innovation Award. NPA is an association for professionals in network computing. Cisco VPN client autoconnect Cisco Knowledge Share with Avner Izhar: Here is something that is worth sharing, how to get a VPN client to automatically connect to the VPN destination (ASA, VPN concentrator etc.). This can help in situations where you need to mimic a VPN appliance (ASA5505) using a Windows box. May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. |
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