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Black Friday 2011 – 50% Off on INE bundles

Calin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:52:23 +0000

If anybody is interested in buying INE products, do it now. I’ve got the following marketing e-mail. The prices are pretty good I must admit:

The Best CCIE Training at Over 50% Off

From now until Monday enjoy the best CCIE Training at a fraction of the price.

CCIE R&S Bundle CCIE R&S [...]

IPv4 Address Space Depleted

Calin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:54:29 +0000

At a ceremony held on 3 February, 2011 the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining last five /8s of
IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in
accordance with the Global Policy for the Allocation of the
Remaining IPv4 Address Space. With this action, the free pool [...]

Cisco quits WiMax radio business

Calin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:32:50 +0000

WiMAX, meaning Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from point-to-multipoint links to portable and fully mobile internet access. The technology provides up to 10 Mbps broadband speed without the need for cables. The technology is based on the IEEE 802.16 [...]

IP Multicast Gotchas

Calin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:51:21 +0000

Denise Fishburne discusses repeat problems in IP Multicast. Learn about the foundation protocols of Multicast and Cisco Press’ Multicast Video Mentor.

Excellent presentation. Exactly like she said, for many of network engineers, even for those with a lot of knowledge and experience, Multicast is the “big bad wolf”.

Source: InformIT

SolarWinds: free network config generator

Calin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:51:52 +0000

A few days ago I received a notification from SolarWinds that they released a free Network Config Generator software and I was invited to download and test it.

I give it a try and even if I’m more used to the old plain text files with [...]

Riverbed releases gigabit-speed WAN optimizer

Calin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:04 +0000

Riverbed Technology Inc. today released two new models of its WAN optimization engine, the Steelhead appliance, which can now achieve network throughput speeds of up to 1Gbit/sec. over Ethernet or OC-12 connections.

The new appliance, the Steelhead 7050-L (low) and 7050-M (medium), are the first to use solid-state drives (SSD) instead of hard disk drives [...]

Cisco, EMC unveil data center joint venture

Calin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:09:20 +0000

Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

The partnership, which also includes virtualization software vendor VMware, is set up in two parts: one is a Virtual Computing Environment coalition to develop the new products; the other is a joint [...]

Cisco acquire TANDBERG (for $3 billion)

Calin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:10:21 +0000

Cisco today announced a definitive agreement for Cisco to launch a recommended voluntary cash offer to acquire TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL). TANDBERG, based in Oslo, Norway, and New York, is a global leader in video communications, including a broad range of world-class video endpoint and network infrastructure solutions with intercompany and multi-vendor interoperability. With this proposed [...]

Fluke Networks acquired AirMagnet

Calin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:31:04 +0000

With its acquisition of wireless LAN design, management and security vendor AirMagnet, Fluke Networks is positioning itself to be a vendor of choice for enterprises that are trying to manage hybridized networks with both wired Ethernet and wireless LAN technology.

“The bottom line is that enterprises are going to have hybrid networks for a really, [...]

New DOS attacks threaten wireless data networks

Calin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:17:43 +0000

Forget spam, viruses, worms, malware and phishing. These threats are apparently old school when compared to a new class of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that threaten wireless data networks.

The latest wireless network threats were outlined in a talk here Thursday by Krishan Sabnani, vice president of networking research at Bell Labs, at the Cyber Infrastructure [...]