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Can Cisco do a good job in all its many markets?

Jim Duffy writes that Cisco is taking heat in the data center from yet another competitor. "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. Cisco, as we all know, is in virtually every market - including data center - where networking is integral. Many critics, including BLADE, have charged that Cisco is in too many markets to specialize in just one, and has retrofitted and repackaged gear initially built for enterprise workgroups and campuses for more demanding applications - like data center and service provider networks."
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Cisco issues TLS advisory While everyone was distracted by the HP/3Com deal, Cisco this week quietly issued a security advisory warning of an "industry-wide" vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that could impact any Cisco product that uses TLS or the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Cisco was still determining which products are affected at the time of this post, but had also already...

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