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	Social Security Administration to award massive network deal The Social Security Administration says it will announce in September a new award for data networking services, jumpstarting a critical IT project that has been delayed for more than a year following a successful -- but secretive -- legal protest of the original awards. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Brocade FCoE Solutions for I/O Convergence Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data. Read now! In this Issue Verizon: Businesses need to move on IPv6 Ring! It's Gmail's new voice feature calling Vyatta routing software certified for IPv6 Brocade suit alleges A10 copied Foundry The emergence of virtual appliances Broadband user downloaded 2.7TB in one month Report: Cloud IT ideal for testing innovative ideas Sprint quietly sells 3G femtocell, Verizon set to follow Faster HSPA smartphones, modems coming soon WHITE PAPER: RIM The CIO's Guide to Mobile Unified Communications Unified Communications (UC) integrates multiple communications modalities and adds presence features to allow workers to communicate and collaborate more effectively with co-workers, customers and suppliers. Learn about the cost, productivity and reachability issues. Read Now. Verizon: Businesses need to move on IPv6 Verizon Business has a message to companies still reluctant to migrate their networks to IPv6: You're better off doing it now than later. Read More Ring! It's Gmail's new voice feature calling Google announced Wednesday it is offering the ability to make phone calls over the Internet via its popular Gmail service. Read More Vyatta routing software certified for IPv6 The Vyatta open-source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addresses available under the current version of IP diminishes. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Evolve 2G/3G Networks for LTE using L2 Transport To evolve 2G and 3G networks the backhaul network must support a combination of TDM and Ethernet/IP traffic. L2 backhaul helps achieve high capacity at the lowest total cost of ownership, providing flat IP for LTE, and maintains revenue streams for TDM services while new applications are enabled. Read Now Brocade suit alleges A10 copied Foundry Brocade Communications claims in a suit filed earlier this month that the founder of A10 Networks improperly used trade secrets and recruited top employees in order to build application delivery products that competed with those offered by Brocade. Read More The emergence of virtual appliances When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common form of virtualization, there is also no doubt that other forms of virtualization are also gaining in importance. This WAN newsletter will talk about how virtual appliances are gaining in importance. Read More Broadband user downloaded 2.7TB in one month Broadband customers worried about exceeding their 20GB monthly allowance take note: A single customer in Belgium recently downloaded nearly 2.7TB of data in a one month, an ISP has proudly revealed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Top 10 Reasons for Using Server Online Backup and Recovery Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. This paper discusses the top 10 reasons businesses are turning to this technology. Read Now Report: Cloud IT ideal for testing innovative ideas Cloud computing offers a speedy way to set up experimental testbeds to accelerate business innovation, according to a report by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read More Sprint quietly sells 3G femtocell, Verizon set to follow U.S. carriers with EV-DO mobile data networks are stepping up their coverage game with femtocells that offer extended coverage for the high-speed network, after long offering units that worked only with the slower CDMA2000-1x system. Read More Faster HSPA smartphones, modems coming soon Smartphones and modems are about to get faster mobile broadband connections -- 14.4M bps and 42M bps, repectively -- using HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access). Read More
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