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	Cisco extends Borderless Networks with new switches Cisco this week extended its Borderless Networks initiative with some new switches and enhancements to existing routers to enable anytime, anywhere access to anything. To facilitate that, Cisco is working on embedding more video, security and mobility features into its gear, while also reducing the amount of energy they consume. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing. Read More In this Issue Cisco CRS-3 to disrupt Hollywood? What SWITCH Exam STP Config Can't be Done with 2 Switches? National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses? NetScout integrates management software with Cisco Reliably auditing your cloud provider security from the bare silicon on up. 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The big question we've been looking at for the last few weeks is the value of a 2 switch lab topology for prepping Spanning Tree topics for both CCNA and CCNP. I'll conclude the discussion this week, and ask for your help to build a list of "but you can't do ______ with a 2-switch lab". In short, though, I think you can practice most STP-related config for CCNP SWITCH, with the exception of 802.1s... Read More National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses? We've heard a lot about how the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan aims to provide 100 million U.S. households with 100Mbps broadband connections so far, but precious little on how it will affect enterprise users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Actuate Selecting the Right Reporting Technology Today, dynamic reports have emerged as the most visual, widely used and impactful part of enterprise applications. In order to increase the usability and value of applications, ISVs must embed a technology into their products to add rich, interactive, Web 2.0 reporting and analytics to attract and retain customers. Learn more! NetScout integrates management software with Cisco NetScout has intgrated its nGenius monitoring software with Cisco branch office routers Read More Reliably auditing your cloud provider security from the bare silicon on up. RSA, Intel and VMware have teamed up to bring us their proof of concept for reliably auditing and securing infrastructure cloud services. Their new solution is called the Hardware Root of Trust. One of the biggest issues with cloud services is that there's no reliable mechanism that allows cloud customers to audit their providers security when and how they want to. Cloud customers want the ability... Read More Cisco among three IP suppliers to AT&T AT&T maintains three suppliers for its IP domain, according to investment firm UBS. In a bulletin this week updating investors on the AT&T "domain" supplier and procurement strategy, the firm believes Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel will all remain as IP vendors to the carrier. Read More WEBCAST: ShoreTel A Lower Cost Approach to UC Learn about a switch-based architecture that provides the industry's lowest total cost of ownership while exploiting the full power of IP. See why this system beats the market leaders and has over 1 million users like Big Brothers/Big Sisters who candidly discuss their selection process, goals and ultimate success in moving to UC. Learn More! Teleworkergate While we in Boston had very little natural snow, Washington DC had a record year. Three storms dropped 32" of snow on our nation's capital. This led to a Federal government shutdown for 3 days -- at a cost of an estimated $100 million per day. Read More Is that a Cluster in your pocket or are you happy to see me? High Performance Computing (HPC) is about equal in coolness as your friends seeing you growlin' and prowlin' on a raked and piped out Harley on a summer day. Read More Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium have released open source software to help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More
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