Is it time to deploy mobile WAN acceleration? Interest in soft WOCs is rising, industry watchers say, as the workforce becomes more mobile and expects stellar application performance even on the road. AT&T, Verizon others boost 4G networks AT&T and Verizon, along with several other telecom companies and device manufacturers, have joined forces to help develop voice and SMS standards for the 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. There's nothing local about this LAN Verizon Business this week expanded its Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) across the world, taking a local area network technology and making it global. FCC seeks public's help with E-Rate Internet services program The Federal Communications Commission this week asked for public comments on how to improve E-Rate, the federal program designed to give U.S. schools and libraries access to affordable telecom and Internet services. Do collaboration tools enable collaboration? At the recent IT Roadmap conference in Washington D.C. there was a panel discussion about how the younger generation uses tools such as texting to stay in touch with friends. One of the implications is that the younger generation is more facile with collaboration than the current workforce is. Cisco lays out why it might let Tandberg go free Cisco Systems may be laying the groundwork for dropping its $3 billion offer for videoconferencing vendor Tandberg despite the emphasis it has placed on video as the future of communications. Cash in on free IT management software for a limited time only Software makers offer scaled-down versions of their commercial management applications for free, hoping to draw customers into a bigger sale. Power grid getting smart The federal government is about to add some serious networking to the nation's power grid, and it's about time. Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition nets unified management software for virtual, cloud environments EMC Ionix portfolio provides integrated, unified element manager for Vblock as part of Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition established to enable collaboration among the IT vendors. Cable modem hacker busted by feds An expert on cable modem hacking has been arrested by federal authorities on computer intrusion charges. November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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