Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Cisco says it has a standards-compliant 40/100G Ethernet product

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Cisco says it has a standards-compliant 40/100G Ethernet product
The IEEE ratified the 802.3ba - aka, 40/100G Ethernet - standard last week as expected. Compliant products are expected to soon flood the market.So what does this mean to 40/100G Ethernet products already on the market? Some were in trials late last year and early this year, and the IEEE says changes to the 802.3ba spec were made right up until March 2010. Read More


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Questions for the Cisco Certification Folks at Cisco Live
Cisco Live 2010, aka Networkers, starts the week of June 28th in Vegas. As usual, whenever I go to this or any other trade show event, there's usually a short list of questions that I've been pondering. So, when walking around the show floor, I seek out those who might have an answer to a question. Read More

Cisco Announces the CCIE Emeritus Program
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Friendly Reminder to those who are PCI compliant.. WEP must die in next 12 days.
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IBM research project looks to reshape mobile email
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Fast foreign language translation software to get final touches
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