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	Air Force software turns warplanes into wireless routers in the sky A software upgrade called Net-T effectively turns U.S. military aircraft into giant airborne wireless routers, allowing ground forces to share information with each other and with their allies overhead. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Introducing AT&T Enhanced Push-to-Talk. With up to 1,000 contacts and a broad range of devices and platforms, you'll get instant communication -- because your business doesn't have time for lag time. Learn how to get started with free handsets today! In this Issue Cisco to buy SON software vendor Intucell for $475 million Hortonworks releases a Hadoop sandbox Juniper's SDN vision is broadest in the industry, but it's just a start Flood of spam email? It may be a screen for fraud NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V Exposure of files on unsecured wireless no excuse to search, judge rules Hitchhiker's Guide to Troubleshooting IPv6 AT&T spectrum grab: buying Alltel for $780 million Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Measuring Private Cloud Payback With 2,000 employees spread across five continents, balancing the tradeoff between complexity and performance is no easy task. See how a natural resources firm leveraged WAN optimization to deploy their private cloud and achieve bandwidth utilization reductions of 70%-90% without having to make changes to routers or QoS configurations. Read now! Cisco to buy SON software vendor Intucell for $475 million Cisco Systems is planning to acquire Intucell in a bid to make its products more attractive to mobile operators as traffic volume on networks continues to grow. Read More Hortonworks releases a Hadoop sandbox Those who want to try the much-hyped Hadoop but haven't got a cluster or two to spare can now test the data processing platform on their desktops, thanks to a new release from Hadoop distributor Hortonworks. Read More Juniper's SDN vision is broadest in the industry, but it's just a start As most people who follow the networking industry know, Juniper outlined its vision for software-defined networks (SDN) at last week's Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas. I've had a bit of time to digest the information, answered a number of questions about it, and I thought it was time to share my thoughts on what they announced and the impact to the industry. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More Flood of spam email? It may be a screen for fraud If you get hit with an avalanche of obvious spam email, that's one problem. But it may also be an effort to distract you from a much bigger problem: fraudulent purchases and bank transactions made with your stolen identity and credentials. Read More NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments. Read More Exposure of files on unsecured wireless no excuse to search, judge rules An individual who inadvertently exposes the contents of his computer over an unsecured wireless network still has a reasonable expectation of privacy against a search of those contents by the police, a federal judge in Oregon ruled last week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. Hitchhiker's Guide to Troubleshooting IPv6 Just one of the many new "RST" sessions for CiscoLive Orlando: June 23rd-27th Read More AT&T spectrum grab: buying Alltel for $780 million AT&T has agreed to buy Alltel's U.S. wireless operations, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and about 585,000 subscribers, for $780 million in cash. Technically, AT&T is buying the operation from the lesser known Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (ATNI). Read More Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets Global spam levels continued to fall in 2012 and even the number of malicious attachments was on the wane, new figures from Kaspersky Lab have suggested. Read More
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