| Cisco's data center guru talks direction, strategy
As a 13 year Cisco veteran, John McCool, senior vice president and General Manager of Cisco's Data Center Switching and Services Group, has seen a boatload of change. Juniper reloads for battle with Cisco
Juniper this week stepped up its battle with Cisco on multiple fronts with a sweeping technology and partnership announcement in New York. The event was hosted by the New York Stock Exchange, Juniper's highest profile enterprise account for its high-performance networking thrust. Cisco dropping Tandberg buy?
Cisco is reportedly considering dropping its $3 billion bid for videoconferencing leader Tandberg in the face of resistance from a block of shareholders owning 24% of the Norwegian company. Cool IOS Feature: Random NetFlow
Does anyone out there remember the show, "The Fall Guy" with Lee Majors and one of my big time young punk kid crushes, Heather Thomas. The theme song was as popular as the actual show (especially the later seasons which sucked worse then a "Think Outside the Box" workshop). Looking at Cisco Cat switches and routers, to me the true "unknown stuntman" of networking is Netflow. New Security Features in Cisco IOS 15.0
Cisco's newly released ISR G2 routers come with a new update to their software features in IOS version 15.0. I will focus on describing some of the new security features that are found in the IOS 15.0 security feature set. It is important to note that IOS 15.0 will work on older ISR models as well as the new ISR G2 platforms. This is a straightforward list with a description of each new feature.... MIB Walking 101
Network management is sometimes as difficult as trying to eat undercooked beef in front of guest. The more you chew the bigger and worse it gets. Of course that's when folks want to ask me a thousand questions... Like anything, lets take it small first and then work our way up to the bigger stuff. First off, forget all of the GUI stuff, trend markers and way cool pie charts. Understanding the underlying... Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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