Friday, October 26, 2007

Tech Pay Climbs; Avaya Deal To Close Soon

TechWeb Networking Update - Friday, Oct 26, 2007

(Table of Contents)

*Tech Pay Approaches All-Time High
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*LANDesk Touts Its Management Gateway Appliance For Mobile Workers
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*Coyote Point Unveils Equalizer Series V8.0
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*Avaya Says Deal To Close Shortly, Sees Faster Growth
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*RedSky Debuts 'E911 Anywhere' At Interop
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*Vonage Vulnerable To Eavesdropping Hackers
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( Today's Top Story)

Tech Pay Approaches All-Time High
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SAP consultants earned $88.07 per hour, Java developers garnered
$50.89 in the third quarter, according to the Yoh Index of
Technology Wages.

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Inside Google's Michigan Office
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We've got photos of Google's snazzy new digs in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
the headquarters for its AdWords division.

Gmail Now Has IMAP Support
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Announced at Interop New York, the e-mail feature synchs with
Outlook Express, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, Apple Mail, Windows
Mail, and Thunderbird 2.0.

PBS Station Invokes Google Maps To Help San Diego Residents Flee Fires
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The station also has 588 people signed up to receive Twitter
broadcasts, where the updates are pushed to recipients'
BlackBerry devices and cell phones.

Intel Dips, AMD Rises In Chip Market
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The overall PC processor market grew 14.3% in the third quarter
to reach a record level, said market research firm IDC.

Smartphone And Mobile Device Guide
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Microsoft Says Windows May Soon Be On XO Laptop
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The low-cost laptop computer for poor children currently runs on
rival Linux software.

Microsoft Earnings Boosted By Windows Vista, Office, Halo
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The combined revenue of Microsoft's client, business, and server
and tools divisions grew by more than 20%, the company said.

SanDisk Accuses 25 Companies Of Patent Infringement
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The technology is allegedly found in USB drives, MP3 players, and
other flash storage products.

(Networking News of the Week)

LANDesk Touts Its Management Gateway Appliance For Mobile Workers
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The SSL VPN hardware was developed in part by Avocent, which
acquired LANDesk last year.

Coyote Point Unveils Equalizer Series V8.0
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The appliances offer server cluster surge protection, add Akamai
compatibility, offer Microsoft Web Outlook Access support, and
provide HTTP compression.

Avaya Says Deal To Close Shortly, Sees Faster Growth
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CEO Louis D'Ambrosio said the company is likely to close its $8.2
billion acquisition by TPG Capital and Silver Lake in the next
few days, as planned.

RedSky Debuts 'E911 Anywhere' At Interop
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The company said the service works with analog, digital, IP
hardphones, softphones, and SIP phones.

Vonage Vulnerable To Eavesdropping Hackers
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Security software engineers with Sipera have found flaws in
Vonage's VoIP Motorola Phone Adapter, its Grandstream
HandyTone-488, and its Globe7 VoIP Client.

Wireless Alliance Forms To Double WiMax Capability
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The Smart Antenna RF Test Alliance looks to promote beamforming,
which can increase the power in the direction the signal is to be sent.

Fluke Networks Previews Unified Performance Management System
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Visual Performance Manager provides a single view to identify
network voice and data performance problems across enterprises
with many branch offices.

Comcast Chided For Managing BitTorrent Network Traffic
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An AP investigation revealing the cable company's bandwidth
management technology draws protests from net neutrality groups.

Prosecutors Poke Holes In Nacchio's Last-Ditch Appeal
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The ex-Qwest chief executive maintains his firm had been denied a
contract with the National Security Agency, supporting earlier claims.

Cisco Jump-Starts Mobile WiMax With $330 Million Buy Of Navini Networks
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Navini's Ripwave MX product line includes modems, base stations,
antenna arrays, and element management systems that operate
across a wide range of spectrums.

With BlackBerry in Crosshairs, Microsoft Debuts Mobile Server
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The server software, introduced during Steve Ballmer's CTIA
keynote Tuesday, will allow mobile devices to be managed and
provisioned remotely much like PCs.

Citrix Launches First Product From XenSource Acquisition
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The XenDesktop virtualization product, which combines three
separate capabilities from Xen and Citrix, will stretch from the
host server to the individual desktops.

Countries Mull Making Room For Digital Television
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U.S. delegates request a prime slice of the radio frequency
spectrum for use by digital television, in a move that would
create a multibillion-dollar market.

ADC To Acquire In-Building Wireless Vendor For $169 Million
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The purchase of LGC Wireless is expected to double the size of
ADC's existing wireless business.

Taiwan To Spend $664 Million On WiMax
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The investment, announced at the 2007 WiMax Forum, includes a new
WiMax application lab.

Rolling Review: Out-Of-Band NAC
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Out-of-band NAC lets you lock down your network from a central
command center. So why isn't it more popular?

In-Line NAC Rolling Review: ConSentry
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The LANShield Controller allows for robust policy development.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes With Tripwire Enterprise 7
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Auditing software can help IT get a handle on unwanted changes to
server and network infrastructure.

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(Breaking News)

Oracle Won't Budge Off Original BEA Offer; Bid Expires Sunday
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BEA had rebuffed Oracle's Oct. 9 initial offer as 'undervaluing'
the company.

Tech Pay Approaches All-Time High
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Don't Call ACLU on Comcast Just Yet
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Some folks are suggesting that Comcast's sending forged TCP
resets suggest the company is making some moral judgement about
users accessing BitTorrent. Settle down people.

On The Floor at Interop: Day 1
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Mobile security initiatives, device management and much more
highlight some of the buzz from day one at Interop 2007.

BEA Counters Oracle With $21 Per Share Demand
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Oracle previously told BEA it won't be upping the offer and will
withdraw by Oct. 28, if the BEA board of directors doesn't allow
shareholders to vote on the bid.

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1 comment:

Justin Lofton said...

In my experience, Riverbed has the best of breed solution for application acceleration. I work as an engineer, for a Cisco partner and we are also partnered with Riverbed, because they have the best WAN optimization technology out there at this point. I have a lot of comparison data on all the competitors if anyone is interested. Forrester, Gartner, etc. Just shoot me an email.

Justin Lofton
Systems Engineer
justinl@tredent.com
Tredent Data Systems, Inc.
WAN Optimization Information