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Lawsuit claims Cisco aided Chinese repression
Members of the Falun Gong group claim Cisco knew that Internet technology it supplied to China would be used to crack down on the religious movement in the country, according to a lawsuit filed last week. Read More


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Evaluating the Benefits of a Converged Business Network
By converging your networks, you can reap the advantages of business transformation through integration of network access, communications applications, and core business applications. Industry analyst firm IDC outlines the advantages of convergence and what to look for in your network service provider. Read More Today!

Cisco sued for PoE patent infringement
Canadian intellectual property licensor Mosaid Technologies this week said it is suing Cisco for patent infringement, filing its compliant with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington. Mosaid asserts that six of its patents are infringed by certain Cisco products, including Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches and routers, DSL and cable modem wireless access points, PoE IP phones and VoIP cable modems. Mosaid is requesting that the ITC halt the "unlawful importation and sale" of these and certain other Cisco products in the United States. Read More

Cisco to dump Linksys, WebEx?
Cisco is rumored to be looking to sell its Linksys home and consumer networking business as it looks to shave $1 billion in expenses by eliminating product lines and jobs. The Register posts this possibility, along with another: "letting go of its WebEx brand." Read More


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Schools Graduate to Enterprise Class Wi-Fi
Online multimedia and interactive educational applications are invading the classroom and prompting schools to take a fresh look at what's possible with the latest in wireless LAN technology. Read now!

US wants unconventional, intelligent apps to help patients make healthcare decisions
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today said it would fund the development of a new generation of what it called novel, unconventional intelligent applications that could help people make complex health decisions. Read More

The impact of 'enterprise technology'
With ET, technology has leapt off the desktop and joined the real world. Users and inanimate objects (like cameras, signs, monitors and sensors) are now mobile-enabled and compute-powered. That's paving the way for a host of new applications. Read More


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A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0
Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now!

What if IPv6 simply fails to catch on?
During the past six months, the Internet engineering community has undertaken an unprecedented effort to promote IPv6 as an urgent and necessary upgrade for network and website operators to allow for the continued, rapid growth of the Internet. Read More

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