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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, of indeed if, Apple will make its move, but the possibilty, probablity, has everyone waiting to see what...

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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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  Countermeasures

  Heavy Lies the Crown: Apple's Mobile Success Puts it on Thin Security Ice by John Linkous

  Last week, I was hanging out with my friend Steve, who is a professional digital cinematographer and long-time Apple Macintosh user. We were talking about how great a piece of hardware the iPhone 4S is, when there was a pregnant pause in conversation before he asked me, “So why did this Flashback thing happen?” Ah, yes … the Flashback malware. For many Apple users, this is the first time they have ever been familiarized with the string of dead silence, followed by tacit acknowledgement, vendor...

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  Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

  Tibco And LogLogic: An Interesting and Revealing Acquisition by Jon Oltsik

  Over the past few years, a number of independent Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) vendors were acquired by bigger players.  In late 2010, HP scooped up market leader ArcSight for $1.5 billion.  Last year, McAfee purchased Nitro Security while IBM acquired Q1 Labs.In each of these deals, large vendors were using these acquisitions to bolster existing security offerings, replace legacy SIEM platforms, or filling holes in their portfolios to grow their security...

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  A Greener Field

  The Four Lies of Networking by Dave Greenfield

  Big Data and networking in general are all about numbers and statistics. We talk about our Petabytes of data, the number of packets per second and the Mbytes replicated in an hour. We want to know about the uptime percentages of our services and the time to repair on our circuits. We’re sold on loss ratios and round trip times.And like statistics and their “Lies, damned lies,” as Mark Twain put it, networking has its own set of fallacies and half truths we’ve all run up against. Here are the...

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  The Cisco Connection

  Q4 challenges not a downturn, Cisco CEO says by Jim Duffy

  After marked improvement in its business following the wrenching restructuring and "reinvention" Cisco's gone though over the past year, the company - and perhaps the industry - are not out of the woods yet.Cisco's current quarter, the fourth in its 2012 fiscal year, is likely to come in well below Wall Street expectations due to ongoing economic challenges - particularly in Europe - and conservatism in enterprise IT spending. Cisco's Q3 came in as planned last week, but the company's forecast...

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  The Cisco Connection

  Warrior keynote on Cisco COPE by Jim Duffy

  Implementing security policies into the network based on identity and other application and user awareness parameters will drive network programmability, with network-based APIs and customer-specific algorithms, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said last week during her Interop keynote address. That's the same keynote where Warrior briefly discussed the Cisco Open Programmable Environment (COPE), the company's SDN architecture that it will apparently discuss in more detail at next month's CiscoLive...

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  Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

  Final Thoughts About Interop by Jon Oltsik

  Well I've been out of Las Vegas for several days now so I've had time to adjust back to normal society and reflect a bit more on Interop2012.  My colleague Bob "LAN" Laliberte met with nearly everyone in the industry and while I don't remember every encounter, here are a few final thoughts:1.  Whither data center fabric?  Everyone was talking about data center fabrics last year -- TRILL, SPB, QFabric, Fabricpath, etc.  This year however, hardly a word was spoken although we...

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