Cisco CEO John Chambers' triumphant return to Interop

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	Cisco CEO John Chambers' triumphant return to Interop It's been an interesting past few months for Cisco's CEO John Chambers. The company's stock has had a nice run over the past year, rising from $17 to $27, but recently has fallen to a little over $23. The company has continued to drive well above industry average margins, making Cisco one of the most profitable tech companies out there. But Cisco recently announced it was laying off about 4000... Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications View the new eBook: Evolution of the Ethernet Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on Ethernet Fabric, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Now In this Issue ShoreTel on Talking to CEOs About UC; 2013 Top Contact Center Trends from Avaya Cisco's new core 10 people who should have been Apple's Siri Next generation of carrier systems going virtual ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence 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. ShoreTel on Talking to CEOs About UC; 2013 Top Contact Center Trends from Avaya Today we'd like to draw your attention to two reader resources that were recently posted at Webtorials. The first paper, titled "Top Reasons for CEOs to Choose Unified Communications" begins with the premise that convincing a CEO to adopt a UC solution should not be difficult. The CEO looking to remain competitive and offer exceptional service will want to adopt UC because of its effect on... Read More 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. Cisco's new core Despite Cisco positioning as a "fabric" or "central nervous system" for installed CRS core and ASR edge routers, Cisco's new NCS Network Convergence System indeed appears to be an eventual successor to the CRS in the core. 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 people who should have been Apple's Siri Who could have been a great Siri? Samuel Jackson? Clint Eastwood? Scarlett Johanssen? Read More Next generation of carrier systems going virtual The latest version of Nokia Siemens Networks software for running mobile carriers is virtualized, pointing toward a future of fully cloud-based systems that could help operators run even more efficiently and roll out new services more quickly. Read More ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence Jesse Rothstein, who was the lead architect of F5's flagship product line, founded ExtraHop in 2007 to develop products to derive IT operations intelligence from data gleaned from the network. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Rothstein for an update on the company and what it has learned about things like virtual packet loss (hint: it can be the bane of highly virtualized environments). Read More
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