http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/cisco Subnet - Cisco bloggers en http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57366 Cisco and Juniper are taking their router rivalry to Spain next week as they unveil new and acquired products for wireless operators at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This market will be hotly contested by the two router leaders, and others, as the percentage of IP data traffic from mobile devices explodes.  Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57366#comments Cisco Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress LTE wireless mobility Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:29:41 +0000 Cisco Subnet 57366 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57351 I participated in a webinar on virtualization last week, along with Extreme Networks and Microsoft. During the session, 113 audience members were asked two polling questions. Here are the questions and the results: 1. In your opinion, which of the following factors is holding your organization back from using server virtualization more prominently throughout the enterprise? 1. Lack of virtualization... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57351#comments Extreme Networks Microsoft virtualization VMware Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:21:18 +0000 joltsik 57351 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57315 If you've watched this blog in the last few days, you will have already seen that the CCNP cert appears to have fewer topics than the old CCNP. In fact, the ROUTE exam itself even looks a little narrower at first glance - quite a trick if you consider that it's moved from a 5 day BSCI course to a 5 day ROUTE course plus 7.5 hours of e-learning. Today I'll look specifically at the new ROUTE exam, to... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57315#comments Careers Cisco CCNA CCNP Cisco Press ROUTE ROUTE Certification Guide Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:33:32 +0000 wendell 57315 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57310 According to Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton: "Over the last 30 days we have seen CCIEs drop their highly coveted certifications at a much greater rate than net new CCIEs. "61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's prestigious certification program during the month of January 2010 alone. "For further clarification, let's do the math together: Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57310#comments Careers Cisco Data Center LANs / WANs Security VoIP / Convergence Wireless / Mobile CCIEs held by Cisco in suspended status are included in Cisco's worldwide CCIE count December 2009 vs. January 2010 Worldwide CCIE Count Comparison Inactive status CCIEs are not included in Cisco's worldwide CCIE count Increase in New CCIEs by Country Increase in New CCIEs by Region View more CCIE Water Cooler Gossip Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:43:15 +0000 Brad Reese 57310 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57300 The majority of enterprises surveyed recently by Infonetics Research have no firm plans to use cloud-based data center services. As a data center investment driver, cloud gets trumped by security, virtualization and an increasing number of gigabit ports. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57300#comments Cisco data center Infonetics Research survey Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:25:33 +0000 Cisco Subnet 57300 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57251 We did a book giveaway in January for 10 copies of the CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (4th Edition). This post lists the winners. I hope to get to the post office today to mail them out. I'll get the next CCNP series post out in a day or so. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57251#comments CCIE Cisco Press Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:49:43 +0000 wendell 57251 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57241 It's been a tad over a year now since I found out I passed the CCDE as part of the first beta group. A couple weeks ago I got an interesting e-mail about the Cisco Certified Architect Certification. It said all Cisco Certified Architect Board Exam slots for February have already been filled. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57241#comments CCA CCDE CCIE Cisco Cisco Certified Architect Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:58:51 +0000 michaeljmorris 57241 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57233 In collaboration with MSNBC.com, Crivella West Incorporated - a knowledge discovery company, digitized, analyzed and arranged this e-mail collection of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, First Dude Todd Palin and 7 members of Palin's staff. In the following internal email dated May 7, 2007 addressed to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (email address: govpalin@gov.state.ak.us) and First Dude Todd... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57233#comments Cisco LANs / WANs VoIP / Convergence Wireless / Mobile Crivella West Incorporated - a knowledge discovery company Erika Fagerstrom - Executive Residence Manager & Assistant to the First Gentleman Alaska Governor's House First Dude Todd Palin and 7 members of Palin's staff Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Installation of new Cisco IP Phones in the Alaska Governor's Mansion Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:04:35 +0000 Brad Reese 57233 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57215 More shots are being fired at Cisco in the data center. BLADE Network Technologies, perhaps Cisco's closest competitor in data center switching, this week unveiled its Unified Fabric Architecture, which stresses the company's sole focus on the data center and its partnerships with server vendors. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57215#comments Cisco Blade Network Technolgies converged fabric data center Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:18:26 +0000 Cisco Subnet 57215 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57201 I've got to admit that I've been "kind of harsh" when blogging about Cisco CEO John Chambers lately. So thought I'd loosen up this time and blog about interesting statements made by Chambers. Racking my brain, I kept thinking about John Chambers and his duck quacking! How in the heck could I find something as interesting as that to blog about? Well, I think I've found it. Interesting... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57201#comments Cisco LANs / WANs Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:15:35 +0000 Brad Reese 57201 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57192 Earlier this year, I reported that 49% of mid-sized (i.e. less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e. greater than 1,000 employees) will increase network hardware spending in 2010. Well I went back and cut the ESG 2010 IT Spending Data for fun this week and here is what I learned: Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57192#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:17:37 +0000 joltsik 57192 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57157 It's almost like clockwork. Once word leaked earlier this week that Cisco is prepping an upgrade to its CRS-1 core router to take it to 120G per slot, Juniper this week said it has a new generation of silicon to take its T series core routers to 250G per slot, full duplex. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57157#comments Cisco Cisco CRS-1 core router Juniper Networks Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:06:41 +0000 Cisco Subnet 57157 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57137 Cisco announced its financial results today, must to the delight of Wall Street. Cisco revenue beat estimates and posted 8% year-over-year growth. Net income rose 26% over last year. These stellar results prompted Cisco CEO John Chambers to declare, "we are hitting on all cylinders." No doubt, these are impressive results but there is some hidden bad news in all of the confetti and champagne... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57137#comments Check Point Software Cisco Juniper Networks McAfee Symantec Wall Street Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:14:01 +0000 joltsik 57137 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57099 Source: Cisco Systems It's my personal opinion, that it's always a "Red Flag" when a company's accounts receivable increases year over year (YOY) at a higher dollar amount than the (YOY) increase in a company's net sales. So that's why when Cisco reported a F2Q10 accounts receivable (YOY) increase ($1.344 billion) that was a whopping $618 million more than Cisco's (YOY) net sales increase ($726... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57099#comments Cisco Data Center LANs / WANs Security VoIP / Convergence Wireless / Mobile 7 Year Comparison of Cisco's 2nd Quarter Financial Numbers Calderoni discussed Cisco's long lead time problem Cisco CFO Frank Calderoni discussed Cisco's accounts receivable numbers Cisco reported a F2Q10 accounts receivable (YOY) increase ($1.344 billion) Cisco's AR increase reflects severe component supply shortages at Cisco Cisco's F2Q10 earnings conference call Cisco's whopping accounts receivable increase Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:40:03 +0000 Brad Reese 57099 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57063 3... 2.. 1. Caffeine sequence initiated...We have lift off! I rolled my fat butt out of a warm bed on a cold Wisconsin morning to conduct a WebEx Workshop on "Designing Your Network For The NEW Video" to a group of engineers in India today. I think they were surprised when I told them that this is NOT a Multicasting workshop. So was I... Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57063#comments LANs / WANs Cisco Jimmy Ray Purser Telepresence video Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:41:32 +0000 JimmyRay 57063 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57051 Microsoft built upon its Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) this week with an announcement at the Black Hat conference in Washington DC. With this announcement, Microsoft will provide a simplified implementation of SDL. The goal here is to spread the goodness of SDL to smaller or less sophisticated development organizations. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57051#comments Black Hat Cyber Supply Chain Assurance Microsoft Safecode SDL Software Assurance Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:42:43 +0000 joltsik 57051 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57070 The "backdoors" that Cisco and other networking companies implement in their routers and switches for lawful intercept are front and center again at this week's Black Hat security conference. A few years ago, they were cause celebre in some VoIP wiretapping arguments and court rulings. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57070#comments Cisco backdoors Black Hat security Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:33:39 +0000 Cisco Subnet 57070 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57048 Tomorrow at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, Cisco will officially announce paying Melissa Hathaway (best known for authoring the Obama White House treatise - Cyberspace Policy Review), to be a senior adviser to its security team. Hathaway appears to be cashing in on her government contacts. View the growing laundry list of entities paying Hathaway to be a senior security advisor: Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57048#comments Cisco LANs / WANs Security Hathaway's resignation as the Obama administration's acting cybersecurity czar Hiring of Melissa Hathaway by Cisco is nothing more than mere window dressing Melissa Hathaway (best known for authoring the Obama White House treatise - Cyberspace Policy Review) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:02:39 +0000 Brad Reese 57048 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56956 Cisco is expected to remain aggressive in 2010 as it looks to take back lost market share. The company will build on its generous financing for SMBs, continue to set the industry pace in mergers and acquisitions, and leverage its formidable cash position - greater than $20 billion post- Tandberg and Starent acquisitions - in an effort to pull away from competitors, according to investment firm UBS. ... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56956#comments Cisco financing mergers and acquisitions quarterly Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:47:10 +0000 Cisco Subnet 56956 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56937 Today, PGP announced that it plans to acquire TC Trust Center and ChosenSecurity. Never heard of them? You are not alone. Basically, TC TrustCenter and ChosenSecurity provide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for Internet-based trust relationships. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56937#comments ChosenSecurity federal government PGP PKI Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:19:06 +0000 joltsik 56937 at http://www.networkworld.com/community