Alcatel-Lucent knocked off Juniper and is now No. 2 in SP edge router market share

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	Alcatel-Lucent knocked off Juniper and is now No. 2 in SP edge router market share Network research firm, the Dell'Oro Group, reports that Alcatel-Lucent gained almost five percentage points of service provider edge router market share in 2009, reaching 20%, the first time in ten years that a vendor other than Juniper has occupied the No. 2 position. According to Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent's IP Activities and head of carrier portfolio strategy: "Dell Oro's report... Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! In this Issue Cisco gaining mindshare in security, says research firm Cisco rival Brocade misfiring on IP Fallout from Cisco, HP split 1, 2, 3 or More - How Many Cisco Switches in Your Lab? Series Index: The New CCNP (Announced January, 2010) Series Index: Lab Comparing Router-pair and Router triangle Topologies What Will Be Hot at RSA 2010? WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch The Value of Network Monitoring Even the most knowledgeable and capable network administrator is only as good as the network information that is visible, and that he or she can manage and act on. Administrators need to know what's happening on their networks at all times, and as this paper explains, that's where network monitoring comes in. Read now. Cisco gaining mindshare in security, says research firm A survey of 259 information security professionals shows Cisco gaining clout with them as a network-security provider, according to research firm TheInfoPro. Read More Cisco rival Brocade misfiring on IP Brocade is apparently having trouble selling that Foundry switching gear it bought almost two years ago for $2.6 billion. Poor execution and weak federal government sales led to disappointing first quarter results for the acquired product line. Read More WHITE PAPER: Virtela Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution. Read More! Fallout from Cisco, HP split The IT world has been abuzz the past week on word that Cisco cut ties to HP as a reseller and integration partner. This had been expected ever since Cisco launched its own data center blade server offering to compete with HP's and IBM's, among others. Read More 1, 2, 3 or More - How Many Cisco Switches in Your Lab? When building a lab to use to practice for CCNA or CCNP, you need Cisco switches. Part of the decision must be how many switches you can afford. And of course you'll want to know whether adding that extra switch really helps you study and practice, or not - and that's hard to know until you understand the switching topics in a particular exam. Today (and the next several posts), I'll discuss the topology... Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Series Index: The New CCNP (Announced January, 2010) This blog post is simply an index page to the four recent blog posts related to the CCNP announcement. It's here to make it easier to find the information for those who didn't see these posts around the time they were originally posted. Cisco Announces Changes to CCNP The Scoop on the New TSHOOT Course and Exam (Kevin Wallace) Read More Series Index: Lab Comparing Router-pair and Router triangle Topologies This blog post is simply an index page to the recent blog postings about a lab exercise that compared a topology that used a pair of routers with a topology that used three routers. The lab can be useful for both CCNA and CCNP prep, and the topology discussion helps show some of the issues when choosing to buy 2 or 3 routers for a CCNA or CCNP lab. Topology Design for Routers Through the Lens of a... Read More What Will Be Hot at RSA 2010? In the midst of the global recession, I found the RSA 2009 Conference to be a big snooze. Not much was new and the show lacked any focus. I doubt whether this year's conference will be as lethargic. Security spending is on the rise and new regulations around data protection and breach notification are making their way through congress. With this as background, I believe the hot topics at this... Read More
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