Magazines love to make end-of-year lists, and here at Cisco Subnet, we're no different. Browse over to these top picks from Cisco Subnet: to round out the year:

* Quiz: How much do you know about Cisco?: Cisco Subnet has been following Cisco's every move since February 2007. Take our test to see how much you remember about Cisco from reading Cisco Subnet.

* Cisco Subnet's top 10 of 2007: We've collected the year's most-read Cisco Subnet Community items for your pleasure. See what you enjoyed reading and commenting on in 2007.

* 7 Cisco bad luck happenings in '07: Even the best of us has bad days or makes bad decisions, but when Cisco has them or makes them for whatever reason, they get reported widely. Here are our picks of the top-7 bad luck happenings in Ciscoland in the past year.

* Top 6 Cisco acquisitions of 2007; what it should buy in 2008: Cisco made 11 acquisitions this year culminating in 126 purchases since Cisco's birth. It made three more acquisitions than it did last year, when it spent a measly $256 million buying ho-hum technologies. This year was different, not only in the sheer dollar size of some acquisitions, but also because of the breadth of technologies it acquired.

* Valuable networking how-tos and hints and tips from our Cisco Subnet bloggers: From advice on implementing IPv6, to protecting your network edge, to designing a network, to repairing a Cisco faceplate with easy-to-find items at your nearest hardware store, here's a sampling of the easy-to-follow how-tos and implementation blog items written over the past year by Network World's growing group of Cisco Subnet bloggers.

More Cisco Subnet items:

* Cisco's Giancarlo resigns - what now?
* How far does Cisco's digital ID policy reach to stamp out exam cheating?
* Cisco points to security flaw in its firewall module

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