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  The Cisco Connection

  Avaya: We're not Cisco when it comes to tablets by Jim Duffy

  Despite Cisco's decision to end development on its Cius collaboration tablet, Avaya says it is still committed to its Flare Experience unified communications endpoint software... and to "support" the Avaya collaboration tablet on which it runs.Avaya says it read the market for BYOD and unveiled a version of Flare for the iPad in January, called Flare Communicator. Flare Communicator offers integrated access to voice, email, and IM communications on an iPad, while Flare Experience - which runs...

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  Next-generation Enterprise WANs

  WAN Virtualization’s benefits “beyond the WAN” for security, cloud computing by Andy Gottlieb

  Last time, we covered the network benefits of WAN Virtualization. Here, we look at how WAN Virtualization delivers benefits “beyond the WAN” to the security and computing sides of the enterprise IT shop.While the benefits of WAN Virtualization for the Enterprise WAN itself – far greater bandwidth, far lower monthly costs, greater reliability and application performance predictability, sacrifice-free centralization of network complexity and reduced troubleshooting costs – are quite...

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  The Cisco Connection

  Cisco router rival invests in Cisco video foe by Jim Duffy

  Juniper has invested in Vidyo, a competitor of Cisco's in videoconfencing. Juniper is a strategic investor in Vidyo through its Junos Innovation Fund, which invests in software start-ups targeting emerging markets.Terms of Juniper's stake were not disclosed but the Cisco rival joins lead investor QuestMark Partners and other existing investors Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Star Ventures, and Four Rivers Group to raise Vidyo's funding to $97 million. Vidyo said Juniper's investment allows it to...

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  Network Intelligence

  Brocade struts its SDN stuff by Zeus Kerravala

  The concept of “software defined networks” (SDNs) has become all the rage in networking over the past year or so. Now, I do believe that the “mouthshare” for SDNs far exceeds the amount of money being spent on it, but it’s clear, from the inquiries I get from network managers trying to understand what SDNs are and if they’re applicable for their organizations, that SDNs will be here to stay for the foreseeable future.The majority of the SDN push has been by startups, such as Arista, Nicera and...

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  Putting Realism Into Your Network

  Made in America: Who is manufacturing in America? by Larry Chaffin

  I started a blog at Interop Las Vegas to see where the vendors manufactured their equipment. This was in response to the questions I get about buying American. Many executives are getting hit hard to buy American products and want to know where vendors are manufacturing equipment. They want jobs to be brought back to America and to be good stewards for their company. While walking the floor I handed out in person a request for information from all of the vendors listed below. A few responded...

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  Putting Realism Into Your Network

  2012 Larry Awards for Best Interop Product Presentation by Larry Chaffin

  Once again it is time for the Annual Larry Awards for Best Interop Presentation. Unlike the Best of Interop Awards these awards are given to the vendor who presents the best product presentation on the show floor. Spending three days in the weeds and watching some presentations twice, it was a well-spent trip.Here are the categories for The Larry Awards for Best Interop Product Presentation:1.     Cloud Networking2.     Collaboration, VOIP, Video, Unified...

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  Networking at Play

  Waiting on the Real Apple TV by Steven Vaughan-Nichols

  You may have noticed that when I talk about TV over the Internet, I haven't been talking about Google TV or the like. Instead, I've been focusing on “media extenders” like the Apple TV, Roku, and the various Internet-equipped Blu-Ray DVD players. The main reason is the elephant in the room: “When will Apple announce an iTunes-empowered TV, aka a 'real' Apple TV?" We still don't know when, or indeed if, Apple will make its move, but the possibilty, probablity, has everyone waiting to see...

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  Core Networking and Security

  Preparing Your Enterprise for World IPv6 Launch by Scott Hogg

  Last year on June 8, 2011 we all experienced World IPv6 Day. This was a 24-hour test for web sites to use both an IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously for the same URL. One June 6, 2012 there will be World IPv6 Launch in which many organizations will enable IPv6 forever. Enterprises will need to prepare for World IPv6 Launch whether or not they are actively participating and enabling IPv6. World IPv6 Day Last year World IPv6 Day was organized by the Internet Society (ISOC) and several...

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  The Cisco Connection

  ALU expected to challenge Cisco, Juniper in core by Jim Duffy

  Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly ready to give Cisco and Juniper a run for the money in core routing. The company, which dukes it out with both in service provider edge routing, is about to pop a core router based on its 400Gbps FP3 processor, according to ITWire.This would be ALU's second run at the core. Anyone remember the 7770 Routing Core Platform and 7670 Routing Switch Platform with ACEIS? The 7770 was then respun into the 7770 Optical Branch Exchange.Only the 7670 RSP appears to have...

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  Next-generation Enterprise WANs

  The network benefits of WAN Virtualization by Andy Gottlieb

  Having covered in recent columns what WAN Virtualization is and how it relates to WAN Optimization, let’s look at the benefits to the network that WAN Virtualization delivers for the WAN manager, which are substantial. [In an upcoming post, we’ll look at the benefits delivered by WAN Virtualization and the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture beyond the WAN itself.]WAN Virtualization drastically changes the price per bit of bandwidth for the enterprise Intranet,...

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