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Ethernet, cellular hubs and CDNs at the Democratic National Convention.
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Comcast's decision to put a 250-gigabyte cap on monthly bandwidth use for its residential customers...
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The number of corporate branch offices keeps growing, as does the number of mobile employees. At...
Adtran and Alcatel-Lucent this week separately rolled out switches aimed at small and midsize... ...1
A Cisco exec who was shot to death in Detroit last week is being mourned this week as a gentle... ...6
Novell Thursday posted a net income loss of $15 million for its fiscal third quarter fueled by a...
Comcast, the largest provider of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., will limit residential... ...4
As of this morning, the FAA said flights around the country were not longer being delayed after a...
Major League Baseball has installed a video setup and secure telephone links in all 30 stadiums in... ...1
Expect to see a whole lot more Internet-oriented coverage of the Olympics next time around by NBC...
WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks taps $8.5 million for R&D ...2
Your E911 strategy, remote access policies and more depend on examining what "communication" means ...1
How are WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors faring in today's economic...
The Zambia Association for Research and Development is aiming to help women's organizations by... ...1
A network failure at a Georgia facility is being blamed for multiple flight delays across the... ...3
Light Reading has keyed in on Wall Street rumors that Cisco might be looking to buy Brocade, which in turn recently caused quite a stir in the networking world with its proposed acquisition of Foundry Networks.
Preview articleComment"Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf published his latest thoughts on the future of the network in The Observer. Still pushing that interplanetary Internet, but he talks about other advancements in store as well.
Preview articleCommentBrocade told The Register that it plans to introduce Fibre-Channel-over-Ethernet server adapters and an FCoE switch in the first half of next year.
Preview articleCommentInformationWeek blogger Roger Smith talks to Mike Bennett, senior network engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, about the value he sees in the IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet initiative.
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Aruba sales in 2008 jumped $50.8 million, a 40% increase over 2007 according to the 4th Quarter and Year-End 2008 results of the wireless LAN vendor. In examining Aruba's results - RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mark Sue reports that Alcatel-Lucent was once again a 10% partner. U.S....
Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration.... 1
Adtran and Alcatel-Lucent this week separately rolled out switches aimed at small and midsize businesses.As my colleague Tim... 1
Flat IT budgets and lean IT staffs are making it challenging for organizations to effectively manage a growing number of...

If you're thinking the economy is doing very poorly right now, I would argue that you have given in to the media and... 2

Translation Patterns in CUCM are very similar to Route Patterns, but they do not have a Call Routing destination. Route...

I discussed in the previous post how candidate configurations, explicit commits, and rollbacks greatly increase the...

Cisco Systems has announced the elimination of the Linksys channel program, and the intent to fold as many as 20,000 channel...
Security and compliance concerns are creating increased pressure to remove data out of branch offices and new WAN acceleration technologies have emerged to deliver order of magnitude performance improvements across a wide breadth of applications. Hence, the "perfect storm" in the IT industry, which is elevating WAN acceleration from a tactical fix to a strategic enabler of key business initiatives. Download this whitepaper to learn more about scaling a WAN Acceleration Solution.

Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a...
Implementing HA at the Enterprise Data Center Edge to Connect to a Large Number of Branch OfficesThis paper reviews the problem of creating a network where the dynamic availability of services is...
Enterprise Data Center Network Reference ArchitectureUsing a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data...

WAN Ethernet services are reliable, cost-efficient offerings that are widely available and in a...
Keeping Spam at BayThe editors of Network World bring you this informative compilation of news, trends, analysis,...
Get More From Your WANDownload this Network World Executive Guide and get information that details how real-world...

The standard for Power over Ethernet (PoE), IEEE Std. 802.3af(tm)-2003, advanced networking,...
How to cut IT costs with wide-area data services (WDS)Discover how you can realize dramatic cost savings with Wide-area Data Services in this new webcast...
Protecting assets and employees with IP Video SurveillanceLearn from the experts how to leverage your existing network and implement an appropriate solution...
Learn how to simplify your branch infrastructure while dramatically increasing app performance with Citrix Branch Repeater.
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