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The latest enterprise networking news, analysis, blogs and product reviews covering networking topics such as routers, switches, wireless networking, wireless Access Points (APs), servers and managing deployed systems. Includes disaster recovery and network management software as well as all the information you need to design, deploy, monitor, manage, secure and support your Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), and Wi-Fi systems.
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When a Salt Lake City router went offline, only government telecom contractor Harris knew that the backup card was not immediately available and one technician had access to where it was kept. Meanwhile, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of passengers were thrown off schedule as the lack of an FAA filing system left pilots submitting flight plans manually.
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The initial January testing period for Aircell's Gogo Inflight Internet service will be limited to Air Canada's Toronto-Los Angeles and Montreal-Los Angeles routes.
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SocialPet, a new product from Jetmetric, lets administrators send fake phishing e-mails to selected employees to determine which ones know enough to ignore the messages and which don’t - posing a threat to company security.
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AT&T’s request that Verizon pull its five “There’s a Map for That” ads has been denied, though attorneys will have another shot to argue their case. In the meantime, AT&T has aired a new ad of its own, starring not misfit toys but actor Luke Wilson.
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WAN optimization vendor Riverbed in 2010 will begin rolling out products designed to improve application performance and storage capabilities in public cloud environments, such as Amazon’s EC2. Among the products will be a Riverbed Steelhead software offering designed for public clouds. Riverbed demonstrated some of these capabilities at an event in New York.
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Brocade is looking to give service providers a switch that will offer the performance they want in a compact and energy-efficient form factor. The NetIron CER 2000 Series switch offers 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10G Ethernet capabilities in a 1U form factor with almost three times the performance of a comparable Cisco switch while taking up 33 percent less space and consuming 66 percent less power, Brocade officials say.
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The National Broadband Plan task force cites a number of challenges hamstringing widespread broadband adoption, including limits on the Universal Service Fund and a growing demand for spectrum. The task force faces a Feb. 17 deadline for submitting a broadband plan to Congress.
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The GSMA, with The Climate Group, released a Green Manifesto, suggesting industry-wide changes to help lower greenhouse gas emissions. Contributing to its launch, at the Mobile Asia Congress event, were executives from China Mobile and Huawei.
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Polycom is unveiling its ATX 300 offering, designed to enable businesses to work with audiovisual integrators to create customized telepresence environments based on Polycom technology. Polycom officials say this differentiates ATX 300 from the turnkey solutions rivals like Cisco and Tandberg offer.
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AT&T introduced the BlackBerry Curve 8520, while T-Mobile launched the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Nearly identical at a glance, the smartphones differ in price, as well as features such as GPS, WiFi calling and camera resolution.
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Verizon Wireless files a 53-page memorandum responding to AT&T's request to have five of Verizon's ads pulled. AT&T contends that consumers might mistakenly interpret the ads as saying AT&T has no coverage at all in its non-3G coverage areas.
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A jump in options call trading for 3Com in the hours leading up to HP’s announcement of a $2.7 billion bid for networking company 3Com is prompting SEC regulators to investigate whether there was insider trading, according to Bloomberg. In addition, 3Com faces two shareholder lawsuits from investors who say HP’s offer is too low. HP is hoping to adding 3Com to its networking business to better compete with Cisco.
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The economic recession is taking its toll on wireline data spending among U.S. businesses, but is expected to rebound in the coming years, a report by In-Stat finds.
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SGI is showing off its scalable Altix UV supercomputer aimed at HPC environments and high-end enterprise workloads. The system can scale up to 2,048 processing cores with a performance of up to 18.6 teraflops. SGI is unveiling the system, which is powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” Xeon processors, at the Supercomputing 2009 show.
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Research in Motion’s new Blackberry smart phones like the Blackberry Storm2 9550 and the Blackberry Bold 9700 come with the new Blackberry 5.0 operation system. When paired with the latest RIM server solution, Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0, enterprise users will experience new email, calendar, and file sharing capabilities.
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InterSpect 610 system provides innovative, but pricey, inside-out protection.
Version 3.0 detects variety of intrusions—for a price.
Bart's Network Boot Disk provides an easy-to-use, customizable boot.
Visual Network Design's RackWise 1.0, a multivendor equipment diagramming and assembly management utility, takes the sting out of creating plans to rack-mount network infrastructure equipment.
Combo corrals WLANS, but interface needs work.
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