Thursday, November 10, 2011

Comcast begins rollout of IPv6 production network

Brocade takes on Cisco in the campus | Number of Wi-Fi hotspots to quadruple by 2015, says study

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Comcast begins rollout of IPv6 production network
Comcast has begun the production rollout of its new IPv6 service, with 100 customers installed in San Francisco's East Bay in one week. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

CVD program facilitates fast & reliable customer deployments
The Cisco Validated Design program facilitates faster & more reliable customer deployments. Cisco Application Velocity is the Borderless Network Service that maximizes the user experience for any application, any time, on any device and provides application adaptability/survivability. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: MegaPath

Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset
Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now

Brocade takes on Cisco in the campus
Brocade Networks this week has unveiled switches for the enterprise campus designed to help users to affordably scale their networks. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets

Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring
There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More

Number of Wi-Fi hotspots to quadruple by 2015, says study
The number of public Wi-Fi hotspots is expected to increase by 350 percent in the next four years, as operators look for ways to offload traffic from their mobile networks, according to a report by market research company Informa Telecoms and Media. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Justifying Investments in Database Security
Aberdeen's analysis shows clear-cut advantages for database security rather than application-level security requiring encryption of data: based on the same number of applications, 30% fewer incidents of data loss or data exposure, and 15% greater efficiency at addressing common audit requirements. Read More Now!

DARPA gets serious with Internet security, schmoozes the dark side
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had a big hand in creating the Internet and now its wants to get serious about protecting it. Read More



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