Is the Internet really a safe place when ignoring IPv6?

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This report is well written and covers notably how the DNS infrastructure is protected (by anycast servers and other mechanisms). Read... Read full story Related News: Enterprises say they are already doing cloud computing (Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort while Jim Duffy is on vacation.) Cloud computing is already in the enterprise, says a study of 250 companies commissioned by F5 Networks. More than 80 percent of respondents said that they were in at least in trial stages for public and private cloud computing deployments. Interestingly enough, the study also showed that most of them weren't entirely sure... Cisco's fastest router just got faster, than anyone's (Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort while Jim Duffy is on vacation.) In the race to dominate the emerging 100GigE router market, Cisco on Tuesday made its move. The company introduced a new single-slot 16 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card for its flagship Aggregation Services Router 9000 edge router that doubles the density of the ASR 9000. Cisco says the card will actually deliver more than... Gigabit Ethernet fit for a tank Ethernet continues to go places its inventors probably never imagined. This week GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms got a $645,000 contract to supply a custom version of its Gigabit Ethernet switch to rumble around inside the US Army's Abrams tank. In-line monitoring vs. NetFlow or sFlow Michael Patterson - CEO of network performance vendor Plixer International provided all of the following blog information below in regard to the Jimmy Ray Purser video about Net Optics: Hi Brad, I watched the demo. I like Jimmy Ray Purser and follow him on Twitter. In-line monitoring and link aggregation is a good business. Definitely a need for this in the IT field. I like Netflow as I don't have... 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