The Best Switch for the CCNP? Cisco gains back switching share

	Cisco gaining back switching share lost in 2009 | Quick look at AirHORN, an affordable Signal Generator
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	The Best Switch for CCNP Prep in 2010 Wendell Odom: Is there a single best switch model series to buy to build a CCNP lab in 2010? Let's compare four model series: 2950, 3550, 2960, and 2900XL. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Cisco gaining back switching share lost in 2009 Quick look at AirHORN, an affordable Signal Generator Cisco looking at two acquisitions? Why Cisco users need to know Tcl When In Doubt, Capture Packets Layer-0 Page for Network Design Templates Cisco releases new AnyConnect SSLVPN Client Inline Power, POE or POE+ -- which do you need? The Other Side of the Symantec/Verisign Deal Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Cisco gaining back switching share lost in 2009 Cisco Subnet blog: The Layer 2/3 switching market is on track to approach $17 billion this year, having grown almost 11% sequentially in Q1 to over $4.8 billion. Cisco gained share across all segments. Read More Quick look at AirHORN, an affordable Signal Generator Erik Parker: Nuts about Nets, LLC has a dual band signal generator available for Windows based workstations with USB support for under $300. I would consider a small part of this price the hardware and the larger part the easy to use software. Read More Cisco looking at two acquisitions? Cisco Subnet: Cisco is sizing up two possible acquisitions in the mobile Internet space, according to an analyst's report. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Why Cisco users need to know Tcl Mike Sheldon: The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing dynamic language scripts written in Perl, Python and Tcl. Read More When In Doubt, Capture Packets Jerold Swan: While NetFlow--the subject of my last three posts--is a tool that I use constantly for getting visibility into network traffic, sometimes you need to look at complete packet contents. I have a saying at work: "When in doubt, capture packets." Read More Layer-0 Page for Network Design Templates Michael Morris: Proper Network Design Templates are one of the pillars of a written network architecture. If you work on a network engineering and architecture team, Network Design Templates should be seen as your product line. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! Cisco releases new AnyConnect SSLVPN Client Jamey Heary: Cisco recently released version 2.5 of its AnyConnect SSLVPN thick client. This release brings with it two new innovative features called Always-on VPN and AnyConnect Secure Mobility. Read More Inline Power, POE or POE+ -- which do you need? Cisco Inline Power, POE, and the new POE+ While the IEEE was dragging its feet settling on 802.3af, Cisco and PowerDsine released their own lower power standards (3com used PowerDsine). Read More The Other Side of the Symantec/Verisign Deal Jon Oltsik: I am pretty bullish on the upside of Symantec's acquisition of Verisign. Frankly, I don't understand why Gartner is such a downer and focused on SSL alone. Oh well, to each his own. Read More Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news The Cisco Subnet community features industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. Check out the Cisco Subnet home page for details on 15 copies of CompTIA A+ study kits up for grabs. http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco Subscribe to our bloggers via RSS http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/cisco/feed Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ciscosubnet Read More
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