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Cisco Catalyst marries wired, wireless and SDN in one switch
Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments. Read More

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Cisco to buy Czech vendor Cognitive Security for real-time analytics
Cisco plans to acquire Cognitive Security, a security software company that uses real-time behavioral analysis to detect security threats. Read More

Cisco, competitors see healthy data center switching market
Cisco and its data center switching rivals should see some healthy growth over the next four or fives years. The data center switch market will approach $16 billion by 2017, a compounded annual growth rate of almost 10% over the $10 billion it achieved in 2012, according to Crehan Research. Read More

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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.

Exploiting Universal Plug-n-Play protocol, insecure security cameras & network printers
A plethora of vulnerable devices due to the flaws in the Universal Plug and Play protocol put around 50 million at risk; somewhere in the neighborhood of about 58,000 security camera systems are vulnerable to hacking, and exploiting network printers top the list today for potential security mayhem. Read More

Check Point, Juniper, Stonesoft shine in low-end network firewall test
NSS Labs today released test results of performance, management and security capabilities in a dozen low-end network firewalls, with Check Point, Juniper and Stonesoft earning top technical scores. Read More

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Expert Insights on Building a User Experience Network
Join guest speaker, Forrester Research, Inc. Principal Analyst Andre Kindness and First State Bank IT leader Tristan Smith as they discuss the importance of putting end-users at the forefront of your network design. Learn More.

The 12 techiest Super Bowl ads of all time
The Super Bowl is the time for football, and commercials – increasingly geeky ones. Read More

5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few US companies have deployed long-term fix
Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC ) to alleviate this threat. Read More

Key recommendations for SDN IT buyers
Software defined networking (SDN) offers significant opportunities and challenges for enterprise IT professionals. SDN has the potential to make networks more flexible, reduce the time to provision the network, improve quality of service, reduce operational costs, and make networks more secure. Read More

After selling Linksys, Cisco aims to reach consumers through carriers
Cisco Systems' sale of its home networking business to Belkin International marks the end of a 10-year odyssey through the world of consumer products, but the company plans to keep reaching consumers through their carriers and cable companies. Read More

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