Archive for May, 2009

Cisco introduced the CRS-1 (Carrier Routing System) on May 25, 2004, as its first multichassis core router platform. The numbers were impressive: Fully configured, the system would have 72 racks of network interface modules and eight racks of interconnecting “fabric” modules, all acting as...

You’re on the road and want to create a hot spot for you and coworkers, quick and without to much efforts. Well Sprint offers you this with their new launch MiFi device which combines 3G Wireless connection with a Wi-Fi router:Brought to you by NetworkWorld.tv and FirstDigestAKPC_IDS += "1350,";Popularity:...

Cisco has released a patch that fixes a vulnerability in CiscoWorks Common Services that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to access application and host operating system files. The exploitability of this flaw is rated as high. Note that only CiscoWorks Common Services systems that run on...

Even though it filed Chapter 11 and is reportedly looking to sell off huge chunks of its business, Nortel is not giving up the enterprise fight. The company this week will unveil its next generation large enterprise core/data center aggregation switch. The Virtual Service Platform 9000 is Nortel’s...

Every now and then, all network engineers have to deal with some kind of network attack.  Usually, the attack does not target the network devices, but the machines that provide services (e.g. www, database hosting…), because it’s more easy to find on the Internet a script that is probing...

Source: https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-4862 Cisco will conduct two webinar events on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 to describe recent enhancements to CCIE R&S certification and Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE R&S. Attendees can choose from calls at 8:00 am and 7:00 pm PST. Participants...

I know that it’s not the latest discovery in cryptography area, but still this device amazed me with it’s ingenious construction and way of utilization. An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages....

Category 6 cable, usually Cat-6, is a cable standard for Gigabit Ethernet and other network protocols that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards. The main difference between Cat-6 and it’s previous versions is that CAT-6 fully utilizes all four pairs. Cat-6...