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	Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications and with email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, the company is announcing on Tuesday. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Systems Listen and Learn: "Countdown to Cloud" Webcast Cisco TechWiseTV's Jimmy Ray Purser walks through steps required to prepare your WAN for public, private, & hybrid clouds, as well as how to best scale those services across your organization. Listen See how you can deliver a better cloud experience with a Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network. Watch Now Learn more. In this Issue Juniper confines SDNs to data center Cisco ONE: Proof that Cisco doesn't get SDN's What Cisco ONE means for Cisco's future in SDN Big Data and your network What are the killer apps for software defined networks? WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. Juniper confines SDNs to data center Juniper is initially focusing its software defined networking (SDN) strategy on the data center, a market where it can do itself the least amount of damage if the initiative fails to pan out. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more. Cisco ONE: Proof that Cisco doesn't get SDN's With the rising popularity of OpenFlow and the Open Networking Foundation, there was a lot of anticipation for Cisco's SDN announcement this week at Cisco live. We know Cisco gets disruptive technologies, and given their early, aggressive and immature entrance into VoIP and Computing, they should be leading the charge into SDN right? Wrong. Instead Cisco is trying to turn momentum to open the field... Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. What Cisco ONE means for Cisco's future in SDN There was no hotter topic at Cisco Live 2012 than software defined networks (SDN). The industry has been talking about the concept of SDN for a couple of years now but customer interest in it seems to be at an all-time high. Many of the primary network vendors have outlined their SDN strategy and Cisco used its user event, Cisco Live, to outline its strategy. RELATED: Cisco on why OpenFlow alone doesn't... Read More Big Data and your network With all the talk about big data, we hear comparatively little about the challenges it'll pose for the WAN. So it was particularly interesting to hear what one university learned when they ran Hadoop over their WAN. Read More What are the killer apps for software defined networks? With its ability to decouple network control from the physical infrastructure, OpenFlow and software-defined networks have been touted as the Next Big Thing in networking. They've been pitched as a way for cloud service providers and webscale companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo to ease or automate network configuration and reconfiguration, and quickly add more functionality without manually touching each and every switch or router in the network. Read More
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