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Fujitsu takes the slow road

Cisco fixes critcal WLAN flaws, warns Microsoft hole puts Cisco Unity at risk; Vyatta discounts on Cisco margin
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Fujitsu takes the slow road

Fujitsu Computer Products of America this week became another vendor to embrace slower speeds in its LAN switches. Read full story

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Cisco fixes critcal WLAN flaws, warns Microsoft hole puts Cisco Unity at risk
Cisco on Tuesday warned users of its Unity unified communications products that they are at risk from a flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer that spurred Microsoft into an emergency, out-of-band patch. In addition, Cisco on Monday released a patch to fix multiple flaws in its WLAN controllers that affect a long list of Cisco routers.

Vyatta discounts on Cisco margin
Vyatta, the open source David to Goliath Cisco, is once again offering discounts based on Cisco's profit margin. If Cisco reports it usual 64% to 68% profit margin, Vyatta will discount its service and support subscriptions by 36% to 32%.

Broadband speeds 50% slower than promised
More than 50 percent of ADSL broadband users in the UK can only achieve half the download speeds promoted in ISPs' 'up to 8Mbps' adverts, a new Ofcom study shows.

Cox deploys Cisco DOCSIS 3.0 gear
Cox Communications and Cisco announced this week that they have deployed a DOCSIS 3.0 network as the basis of an "Ultimate Internet" service for residential and business customers in Rhode Island. The service will support download speeds of up to 50Mbps, rivaling fiber-to-the-home/premises/node offerings from Verizon, AT&T and other carriers.

July Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31.

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