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	15 more useful Cisco sites It seems there are more and more sites either devoted to Cisco itself or to a market it's focused on and heavily invested in. Here's our latest roundup of such sites, a follow on to those we culled back in 2008 and 2011 … Read More WHITE PAPER: Infosim Inc. Best Practices for Network Configuration & Change Management This Whitepaper dives into 27 comprehensive best practices in areas such as network discovery, inventory, device configuration backup, policy compliance, configuration change management, reporting, and vulnerability lifecycle management for large networks. Learn more >> In this Issue Polycom: Survey Shows Video Conferencing is Essential Team Collaboration Tool Don't trust the NSA? China-based Huawei says, 'Trust us' 10 great videos from DEMO Fall 2013 Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough China's Huawei turns the table on security after Snowden NSA leaks Cisco raises Catalyst switch prices by up to 67% Cisco says controversial NIST crypto – potential NSA backdoor -- 'not invoked' in products WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. What You Need to Know About 802.11AC The first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications such as warehouse picking, inventory scanning and, in office buildings where mobility wasn't a requirement, cordless PC connections aimed at lowering cabling costs. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed. Learn more. Polycom: Survey Shows Video Conferencing is Essential Team Collaboration Tool Read More Don't trust the NSA? China-based Huawei says, 'Trust us' What a difference a year makes. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more. 10 great videos from DEMO Fall 2013 Greetings from Santa Clara, Calif., where the annual DEMO startup show is winding down. For the past two days, we've heard from 41 startups launching new products upon the world. Will one of these be the next big thing? Perhaps. While launching a product at a show like DEMO seems like a hard prospect, the hard work continues for these startups as they grow their business. Read More Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough What a lucrative profession coding can be -- the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly US$160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more. China's Huawei turns the table on security after Snowden NSA leaks One year after U.S. politicians labeled it an espionage threat, China's Huawei Technologies continues to face security concerns -- but this time, those might not be a factor as the company sells to a market rattled by the Edward Snowden leaks of U.S. classified surveillance programs. Read More Cisco raises Catalyst switch prices by up to 67% Cisco is raising the price on older generation Catalyst switches in an effort to prod users into buying newer gear. Read More Cisco says controversial NIST crypto – potential NSA backdoor -- 'not invoked' in products Controversial crypto technology known as Dual EC DRBG, thought to be a backdoor for the National Security Agency, ended up in some Cisco products as part of their code libraries. But Cisco says they cannot be used because it chose other crypto as an operational default which can't be changed. Read More
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