Wireless Channel
News and Analysis
Smartphone Theft: What Is Best Defense?
While mobile network operators are creating a global database to track stolen smartphones, some police say that's not enough. New York's Attorney General wants more from smartphone makers.
More News and Analysis
- VMware Fights Android BYOD Headaches
- Best of Interop 2013 Winners Announced
- Interop Las Vegas: 10 Cool Products
- Google Glass: First Impressions
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Architectures
Outage Blackballs BlackBerry, Guides Arrow to BYOD Strategy
After finding the right management tool, Arrow Container dumps RIM smartphones for BYODs. Find out why.
More Architectures
- BYOD: The New IT Management Headache
- Upcoming IT Events for Networking and Storage Professionals
- Can Android Replace Windows?
- How 802.11n Will Revolutionize Connectivity
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Reviews & Workshops
Mobile Biometrics: The Next Phase of Enterprise Authentication?
Smartphones and tablets equipped with fingerprint readers or other biometric hardware have the potential to drive greater adoption of biometric authentication in the enterprise—if we can get the hardware, software and business processes right.
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Blogs
Networking Gets Interesting Again
May 17, 2013 02:34 PM
Posted by Kevin Fogarty
From software-defined networking to fabrics to powerful new switches, network vendors are fighting for a revitalized market.
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Motorola Launches 802.11ac APs
May 15, 2013 11:54 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Motorola joins a growing number of enterprise WLAN players with early 802.11ac products. Here's how its new APs stack up.
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Barracuda Boasts 'Bare Metal' Performance With Eon
May 08, 2013 04:01 PM
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Network virtualization platform delivers up to 240 Gbps throughput; Big Switch uses F5 API for cloud orchestration; Dell brings high-performance firewall to midmarket; McAfee acquires Stonesoft; Motorola unveils 11ac access points.
How to Configure a Cisco Wireless Network
May 02, 2013 02:05 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
This tutorial shows how to configure a Cisco wireless network. It covers controller setup, WLAN configuration and some advanced settings. Screenshots are included.
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The Evolution of Wireless Bridging
April 19, 2013 04:19 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Wireless bridges that provide high-speed, site-to-site connectivity have boosted throughput from megabits per second to 100 Gbps, but challenges such as licensing and beam alignment remain.
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Inside InteropNet's Hot Stage
April 19, 2013 02:24 PM
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The hot stage lets the InteropNet team assemble and configure the hardware and software that powers Interop ahead of the conference itself. Team members test designs and work out bugs. Here's an inside look.
Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
