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Case Study: Santa Clara U. graduates to Gigabit Wi-Fi | WANs could stand to get faster, survey finds

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Cisco's SDN plan targets the WAN and access edge
This week, Cisco held its annual Cisco Live Europe Event in Milan. At the show, the company introduced a number of new products, including the Cisco APIC (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller) Enterprise Module that brings the benefits of software defined networks to the WAN and access edge. This announcement follows on the heels of its November launch, where Cisco announced the long-awaited... Read More

WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Wan Deduplication: Getting More by Sending Less
Recently, data deduplication has made its way from the storage to the networking community. More specifically, it has become an important tool for optimizing application performance across the WAN. This paper discusses how WAN deduplication works, and how it can be effectively deployed as a complement to existing storage deduplication solutions. Learn more >>

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WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc

Hosted VoIP Phone Service for a Distributed Workforce
Does your company have multiple locations? What about employees who work from home? If you have separate phone systems for those locations and workers, you could be wasting money and sacrificing employee productivity on a daily basis. See how your current phone systems may be holding you back. Learn more >>

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Case Study: Santa Clara U. graduates to Gigabit Wi-Fi
In 2006, Santa Clara University began rolling out a Wi-Fi network as a way to supplement the school's existing production network. The initial deployment consisted of about 800 Cisco Aironet 1131 a/b/g/ access points and Cisco WiSM controllers. As expansion or renovation projects occurred, the school added some 802.11n access points, but until recently 90% of the roughly 70 buildings on campus were equipped with the older, slower technology. Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

Webinar: IBM IIM for Fraud, Abuse and Waste in Government
View this IBM webinar to learn about the challenges and opportunities in fraud reduction, waste, and abuse in government programs and agencies. You will learn how IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) can help your organization. Learn More.

WANs could stand to get faster, survey finds
Nearly nine out of 10 respondents to a Talari Networks survey of IT professionals said that their wide area network was a problem for business-critical applications either occasionally or frequently, as WAN budgets are set to increase over the course of the coming year. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel®

Bridging the IT Gap
This white paper explains sponsored by HP and Intel® what is fueling the growing gap between enterprise demand and the IT supply; and how your organization can close that gap. Intel®, the Intel® logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Learn More>>

IBM to consolidate communication and collaboration wares into Connections suite
IBM will house its email, communication and collaboration products in its Connections suite, whose scope until now has been limited to enterprise social networking (ESN) software. Read More

SDN thinking lags behind technology, VMware's Casado says
The last legacy systems to make the shift to software-defined networking may be network engineers' minds, but even those are changing. Read More

Internet of Things in five words: sensor, monkey, radio, cloud, Paris
If you want to build your own Internet of Things, try the toy monkey hack. Read More

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