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Cisco’s Spending Spree: An Analysis
December 06, 2012 07:07 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro
This November Cisco bought three companies in the space of about 10 days. I’ll examine whether these purchases are part of a larger strategic move, or simply the result of internal competition among Cisco’s business units.
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802.11ac: 5 Steps to Prepare for Next-Gen WLANs
November 26, 2012 11:56 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
The 802.11ac wireless standard will be ratified in 2013, and pre-standard consumer hardware is on the market. Follow these five steps to prepare now for the day when 802.11ac comes knocking.
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Browsing Like It's 1990
October 15, 2012 11:49 AM
Posted by Jim Rapoza
Mobile computing has to rely on old tricks to keep up with websites built for screaming-fast home and office broadband.
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Apple, IPhone 5 Change Balance of Power Between IT, Vendors
September 21, 2012 01:57 PM
Posted by Kevin Fogarty
With the release of the iPhone 5, corporate network managers get a glimpse of their unpleasant future in vendor contract management.
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Aerohive does an End-Run Around Apple's Bonjour Protocol Issues
September 17, 2012 10:34 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Users want their iPhones and iPads on the network. That means dealing with Apple's Bonjour protocol. Aerohive's Bonjour Gateway is a scalable workaround--and now it's free.
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The Downsides of Big Wireless
September 11, 2012 12:28 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Wireless networks have changed in a big way in the past 10 years. Take a look at how it used to be, and how Big Wireless has changed wireless networking.
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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.
