Network World Chats

Cisco vs. its competitors for WAN acceleration

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:31:30 -0400

Application performance management and WAN acceleration are hard problems to solve and are part of a market segment loaded with vendor mythology from players like Cisco, Riverbed, Blue Coat, Sliver Peak Systems and others. Recently Dr. Jim Metzler was the guest for a live Network World chat. Widely known as one of the industry's foremost gurus of WAN acceleration, Jim is also a sought-after speaker and consultant. He has logged over 28 years of experience with network technology and its business applications.

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Network World Chats: Get your WAN acceleration questions answered

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:18:29 -0400

Mark your calendars for a date on Wednesday with wide area networking expert Jim Metzler, vice president of Ashton, Metzler & Associates and co-author of Network World's Wide Area Networking newsletter. Application performance management and WAN acceleration are hard problems to solve and is a market segment loaded with vendor mythology from players like Cisco, Riverbed, Blue Coat, Sliver Peak Systems and others. Jim will be joining us for a live Network World chat where he can answer your questions on this topic.

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Cisco skills/jobs shortage? Bah!

Cisco Subnet — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:32:34 -0400

Interesting discussion in this recent chat with Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese. Reese explains again why he thinks Cisco is not on the up-and-up over its so-called job and skills shortage. If the IT industry is convinced that the world is hard-up for more Cisco professionals it can recruit for its certifications programs like mad.
Even more importantly, Reese says that the best way to boost your career is to focus on (and only on) the technology that excites you and let the money find you. It will, he say, it will.

LAN switch security: Your deepest fears answered

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:59:33 -0500

ARP poisoning by a hacker is probably the worst attack your LAN could suffer because it's extremely sneaky, very efficient and all too easy to perform. But there are two ways to protect yourself from an ARP spoofing/posioning attack, according to Christoper Paggen, author of LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches, published by Cisco Press.
The options for your defense are to either monitor suspicious ARP traffic on a machine connected to the LAN (using ARPWatch for instance, a free Linux utility) or rely on the switch's built-in security mechanism, Paggen told attendees to Network World's live online text chat with the author on Thursday.

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