Cisco helps fuel "record" Q3 in edge routers

	CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship | NASA Hubble telescope spots galactic holiday ornament
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	TOP STORY: Cisco helps fuel "record" Q3 in edge routers Revenue up 29% from last year; Alcatel-Lucent switches No. 2 places with Juniper again.The service provider edge router market just completed a record quarter in Q3, according to Dell'Oro Group. It's up 25% from Q3 of 2009, surpassing $1.5 billion in worldwide revenue - a record level, according to the firm. Cisco improved its market share lead in the quarter, while Alcatel-Lucent overtook Juniper Networks for the second position. Huawei leapt ahead of Tellabs to take the No. 4 position,... Read More WHITE PAPER: Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free (Aerohive) Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship Running the internal IT operations of Cisco is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalization in the range of $100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT. Read More NASA Hubble telescope spots galactic holiday ornament NASA Hubble telescope spots galactic holiday ornamentSometimes when you see these amazing images from space you almost cannot believe they are real. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Virtualization Planning Guide (Vyatta) While hypervisors can offer basic layer of switching functionality, they do nothing to provide the additional layer of security and traffic management that is required to properly manage and protect a virtual infrastructure. Read now! Huawei investing US$2 billion in India over five years Huawei Technologies plans to invest US$2 billion in India over five years. The money will go to local manufacturing, research and development (R&D), and other areas. Read More Cisco's top 10 rivals Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: The High Performance Network for iSCSI (Extreme Networks) IT organizations have been focusing on creating a converged infrastructure to support high-performance iSCSI while allowing other applications to coexist on the network. Read now! Reports offer info for VoIP, UC users Today, we'd like to highlight two studies that readers who have already deployed VoIP and UC systems may find valuable. The first study will be of interest to those who need to support VoIP systems in a multi-vendor environment. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing (Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG) Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now!
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