In the jostling to grab the headlines for next-gen 100Gbps Ethernet, Juniper this week unveiled its second offering: a 10x10G Ethernet physical interface card (PIC) for its T1600 core router. Read more
Colleague Ellen Messmer has a story this week on a new iPhone application from Cisco that can be used to receive more than a dozen security-related information feeds pertaining to Cisco products and general security topics. The application is free too, Messmer reports. Read more
Several media reports this week say that Cisco will unveil a Wi-Fi-enabled Flip video camera early next year. The device might be the first to feature Cisco technology; Cisco bought Flip maker Pure Digital earlier this year. Read more
To the surprise of no one, Cisco is the leading vendor of 10G Ethernet to data centers and everybody else. Yet it's 10G data center deployments that accounted for the second consecutive quarter of growth for the Ethernet switch market in Q3, according to Dell'Oro Group. Read more
HP this week added a slew of applications to the server blade in its 5400 and 8200 series switches. The applications are from partners in HP's ProCurve ONE program who are writing packages to run on the ProCurve ONE Services zl Module on those switches. Read more
Cisco rates highest overall in user ratings of content security manufacturers, according to data compiled by Infonetics Reseach on user plans for content security. But Cisco leads only by a slight margin for most criteria, followed closely by Symantec.
The real meat of the Infonetics study of 240 small, medium, and large North American organizations though is in these findings: Read more
Cisco has upped its offer for videoconferencing leader Tandberg to $3.4 billion from $3 billion to appease a skittish bloc of shareholders who felt the inital offer undervalued the company. Cisco has also extended the offer deadline to Dec. 1 from Nov. 18, according to this report form the IDG News Service, and said the new price was its final offer. Read more
While everyone was distracted by the HP/3Com deal, Cisco this week quietly issued a security advisory warning of an "industry-wide" vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that could impact any Cisco product that uses TLS or the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Read more
At the end of an interview we did this week with HP's Marius Haas on the $2.7 billion deal to buy 3Com, we asked, 'What would you say to competitors like Cisco?'
"We're here to build a networking powerhouse and we're determined to make the investments to make that happen," was Haas's reply. Read more
HP is acquiring 3Com for $2.7 billion to fill out its data center product portfolio and customer base, a move that clearly has Cisco in its gunsights. The companies hope their combined entity will give Cisco a run-for-the-money in data center networking and convergence. Read more
Brocade is apparently not for sale after all, if the blogosphere is correct about CEO Mike Klayko flashing a "Not For Sale" slide at a recent company sales meeting. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Brocade had put itself on the block and that HP and Oracle were sniffing around. Read more
Cisco fortified its collaboration portfolio on a massive scale this week, unveiling 61 products in all including hosted enterprise e-mail and a social networking application. Colleague Matt Hamblen at Computerworld has the full story here. Read more
Cisco thinks Tandberg needs more time, not money, to close the deal. Tandberg got another 9 days to think about it when Cisco extended the deadline to respond to its $3 billion offer to Nov. 18. Read more
Cisco was urged yet again this week to raise its $3 billion bid for Tandberg. As IDG News Service's Steve Lawson reports, the company was addressed in an open letter urging a hike in the price: Read more
Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort: We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize from Cisco Subnet of a free training course from Global Knowledge goes to David Kotlerewsky (pictured), systems engineer for InterVision Systems Technologies Inc. David thinks he'll use his free training for a class that will get him closer to his CCIE. Read more
Cisco has closed the old Cerent headquarters in Petaluma, CA, effectively ceasing operations in that area. Cisco paid $6.9 billion for Cerent in 1999 -- Cisco's largest acquisition ever at the time -- to obtain its multiservice SONET/SDH optical transport platform, which Cisco calls the ONS 15454. Read more
Cisco executives this week expressed optimism that it will close the deal with videoconferencing leader Tandberg. Cisco's $3 billion offer is facing resistance from a block of shareholders owning 24% of the company, and now OppenheimerFunds, which represents accounts holding another 6%. Read more
Even the bullish forecasts for Cisco's Q1 fell far short. Cisco this week posted first quarter results that far exceeded Wall Street, and its own, expectations.
Sales for the first quarter ended Oct. 24, 2009, were $9 billion. Analysts queried by Thomson Reuters were expecting $8.74 billion in revenue. Likewise, earnings for the quarter came in $.05 better per share on a non-GAAP basis than expected. Non-GAAP earnings per share were $.36 vs. Street estimates of $.31. Read more
The joint venture everyone's been waiting for for the past couple of months has finally arrived. Cisco and EMC have formed a joint venture to "accelerate" the products it develops under it new Virtual Computing Environment coalition with VMware. Read more
Investment firm UBS expects Cisco to report "strong" results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter on Nov. 4. UBS cites improved spending in US enterprise, strong federal government sales, and a "modestly improving" carrier capital spending environment. Read more
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