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Welcome to the new Friday edition of Network World’s Cisco News Alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your gateway to Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, giveaways and more. Enjoy!
* TOP PICK OF THE WEEK:
Aruba puts the squeeze on CiscoLet us know.
Aruba put itself in a better position to give Cisco a run for its money in the wirelss LAN space when it went public in March and already it has grabbed some cisco accounts. InformationWeek reports that real-estate company Prudential Fox & Roach recently chose Aruba over Cisco for its WLAN, and that Aruba is also replacing Cisco WLAN gear at the U.S. Air Force and at Microsoft. Is Aruba on your radar?
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* FROM OUR BLOGGERS:
Brad Reese on Cisco: Were Cisco partner networking career fairs total disasters?
It appears that at least some of this summers’ Cisco partner network career fairs were total disasters. At one fair, candidate attendance was so bad (thus boredom for Cisco and its hiring partners), that Cisco itself rolled out the bar halfway thru the fair with 2 hours left until the fair was scheduled to close (yes of course, the drinking continued way beyond closing time too).
Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: BGP Filtering at the Edge
When you work with IGPs, you tend to think of routing holistically. That’s because IGPs are designed to run under a single administrative authority and so assume that all peers in the routing domain can be trusted. BGP, on the other hand, is designed to be run between routers in different administrative domains and therefore between untrusted peers. As a result BGP requires that you think differently about routing.
Author Expert Jamey Heary: Cisco 8Gbps IPS solution for the Datacenter
Deploying an IPS solution in a datacenter can be a tricky affair. If not deployed properly, an IPS solution can severely affect the resiliency, performance, and security of a datacenter. Cisco’s IPS solution has been extensively tested to make sure it meets the stringent requirements of today’s complex datacenter (DC) environments.
ChannelSurfing with Ken Presti: Managed Services and the Cisco Channel
Well you can’t swing your arm nowadays without hitting news coverage about somebody’s managed services strategy. And Cisco is definitely among the companies making moves in this area. But if you’re a channel partner looking at a possible MSP model, there are a host of questions to consider …
Michael Morris’ Notes from the Field: Nothing like building a network
There’s nothing like actually building a network. Sure, architecting grand ideas is nice. Working with customers and business units to design solutions demonstrates the value we, as network engineers, can bring to an organization. And any good network engineer likes drawing a pretty picture with their favorite Cisco icons in Visio. But there’s nothing like taking all that design work and Visio files and making it work.
HOT DISCUSSIONS AMONG CISCO SUBNET READERS:
Who has heard of Cisco network careers fairs?
Brad Reese on Cisco is blogging about the dearth of candidates visiting Cisco’s careers fairs but a couple of readers say it’s no wonder that attendance was poor. These readers had never heard of such fairs.
Cisco small business product ‘horror story’
McQueen writes: “Our firm has bought the small branch solution from Cisco and I can tell you we hated and are fighting to return it to the reseller.”
Cisco’s Web site outage
Cisco last week suffered a well-publicized three-hour Web site outage that was caused by a data center maintenance issue. Enter reader comments about how embarrassing this must be for the Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 marketing folks and why Cisco didn’t take the medicine that it’s so good at selling.
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