OpenFlow and Cisco OPEN's feedback loop

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	OpenFlow and Cisco OPEN's feedback loop During its SDN conference call this week with Morgan Stanley and other participants, Cisco officials talked often about how a "feedback loop" is vital in its vision of a programmable network. This feedback loop would provide analytical data on users, sessions and applications gathered from the network to define policies and orchestration routines to be programmed back into the network. Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye Strategies for advanced threat security in 2012 Download this new FireEye research brief and learn how traditional security defenses can leave you vulnerable and necessary steps to gain visibility into all stages of the attack vector. Read now. 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Learn More Education group: Schools need 100 Mbps per 1,000 broadband users Schools in the U.S. will need broadband speeds of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students and staff members by the 2014-15 school year in order to meet a growing demand for Web-based instruction and a skyrocketing number of student-owned Web devices, according to a new report by a trade group representing state education agencies. Read More 10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it) The first 801.11ac chipsets are coming soon, but 802.11n is likely to stick around for many years to come -- both in the business world and our homes. Unfortunately, the 300Mbps (megabits per second) that the n-standard promises rarely delivers anything even close and proves to be a massive bottleneck in the days of 50/100Mbps (or more?) broadband connections, 1080p video streaming, massive backups and so forth. On the business side of things, even menial tasks such as remote desktop or real-time collaboration suffer from a poor Wi-Fi-connection. Read More Juniper packs 30 new features into Web security software Juniper Networks this week unveiled enhancements to the Web security software it obtained via the acquisition of Mykonos Software in February. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Three Phases to Improve Application Delivery Teams Most organizations struggling with application performance have not developed the processes and organization that can maximize the benefits of their application delivery solutions. In this report, Gartner outlines three phases to help IT organizations improve their structure to deliver better application performance. Learn More! Cisco software defined-networking products on tap in June Cisco will make software defined-networking (SDN) product announcements at its CiscoLive conference in June that will show initial steps in how it plans to roll out the fledgling technology. Read More VMware: Make your networks 10x simpler to manage An important message came out of EMCWorld last week that should interest anyone looking to run a major data network. Both EMC and VMWare drew attention to the importance of making our networks simpler to run and manage. If organizations are going to build truly massive networks efficiently, reducing the time it takes to deploy and manage resources is essential. Read More Open-source messaging at (nearly) the speed of light Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More! AT&T demands we change our networks If you recall, some time ago I had problems with my AT&T U-verse DSL service until a small village's worth of AT&T folk got involved and resolved the issues. Since then, an executive director from the "Office of the President at AT&T," who I'll call "Bob," has followed up with me once a week to make sure things are still OK. Read More Intel adds sleep-mode Wi-Fi connectivity feature to ultrabooks Devicescape today announced a deal with Intel that will give owners of certain Intel-powered machines "enhanced connectivity" to Devicescape's Wi-Fi network of more than 7 million public hotspots. Read More Wi-Fi and mobile networks grow, evolve and converge One of the biggest announcements coming from The Cable Show held last week in Boston was an agreement by five cable companies to combine their resources and offer shared access to a Wi-Fi network with more than 50,000 hotspots. Read More AT&T lights up 4G LTE in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Naples AT&T Thursday launched its 4G LTE service in, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Naples, Fla., today, which extends its high-speed network implementations to 38 markets. Read More
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