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	Google looks to speed up the Internet Google technicians want an overhaul of the Web's TCP transport layer and are suggesting ways to reduce latency and make the Web faster. The company's "Make the Web Faster" team is making several recommendations to improve TCP speed, including increasing the TCP initial congestion window. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try it free today. In this Issue LTE spectrum: How much do the big carriers have? London 2012 Olympics will see massive wireless spectrum consumption WAN optimization market shakeup predicted Google fiber falters in Kansas City Encrypted SSDs deliver security, speed 2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Juniper acquires BitGravity content technology, engineers Intel agrees to buy Qlogic InfiniBand assets for $125M Cisco expands smart grid portfolio From zero to OpenVPN in 30 minutes RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers - from dynamic firewalls to intrusion detection, and account management. Halo is SaaS and installs in 5 minutes. Halo Basic is free for up to 25 servers. Try Halo LTE spectrum: How much do the big carriers have? Spectrum has always been an important resource for wireless carriers, but with the dawn of true 4G LTE mobile broadband, carriers' need for large spectrum portfolios has grown even larger. Read More London 2012 Olympics will see massive wireless spectrum consumption The 2012 Olympic games in London are going to need a massive spectrum outlay - some 20,000 separate wireless frequency assignments which is more than double the number usually assigned in a year - to handle the expected communications requirements. Read More WAN optimization market shakeup predicted WAN optimization is shaping up to be one of the hottest areas of the network equipment market, prompting industry experts to predict high-profile acquisitions and vendor shakeups in the near future. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more Google fiber falters in Kansas City Almost two years since Google announced plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in trial locations throughout the U.S., the project seems to be hung up — on wires. Read More Encrypted SSDs deliver security, speed We tested five different 2.5", SATA-3 replacement drives and found that we could not crack their encryption. We also found that the drives delivered speeds that were up to five times faster than the Hitachi hard drive that came with our Lenovo laptop. Read More 2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries This morning we have posted Network World's sixth annual collection of the current year's "25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries," which this time around features technological debuts the likes of Perl, OS/2, SPARC, UUNet and NEXTEL, as well as a geeky selection from popular cultural such as the starts of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "RoboCop." Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More Juniper acquires BitGravity content technology, engineers Juniper Networks has acquired technology and personnel from BitGravity, the content delivery networking (CDN) subsidiary of Tata Communications. Read More Intel agrees to buy Qlogic InfiniBand assets for $125M Intel on Monday announced that it had agreed to buy parts of Qlogic's InfiniBand business as the chip maker looks to provide storage and server bandwidth that will allow systems to achieve exaflop computing. Read More Cisco expands smart grid portfolio Cisco this week expanded its smart grid portfolio for utilities with a reference architecture, products and services intended to modernize the electric grid. Read More From zero to OpenVPN in 30 minutes OpenVPN provides a secure link back to your network for remote workers. Carla Schroder walks you through the process of setting up an OpenVPN server to authenticate and encrypt multiple client connections in less time than it takes to get a key made – almost. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 12 available devices to test drive Windows 8 Here are a dozen off-the-shelf devices that Microsoft says it uses in its labs to put Windows 8 through its paces. You, too, can buy one if you haven't already. CISCO SUBNET Looking for a place where everyone understands your joy and pain with Cisco routers, switches and other gear? Check out our Cisco Subnet, a community of Cisco experts blogging on the latest network topics. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES 2012's 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries First look: Windows 8 breaks new ground Anonymous dupes users into joining Megaupload attack Google kills more services iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 18 Another reason for Cisco to pound its chest LTE spectrum: How much do the big carriers have? How to profit from new domain name rules Thorsten Heins takes over as CEO at Research in Motion Can employee-owned devices save companies money?
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