Force10 says it has Cisco Catalyst killer
Force10 Networks this week launched a mid-range Ethernet switch chassis aimed at taking on boxes such as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Foundry Networks’ Super X series at the LAN edge and aggregation layer.
Microsoft and open source patents: What does it all mean?
Microsoft believes that Linux and open source software violates 235 of its patents and it wants violators to pay up. The company for years has been bashing the open source community and this latest move may well start the bloodiest battle yet.
HP unveils security-monitoring appliance for SCADA systems
HP Tuesday plans to unveil a network-monitoring appliance that captures event data generated in systems-control and data-acquisition networks to help energy-sector companies comply with federally required security standards that took effect this year.
Alcatel-Lucent to buy gateway vendor
Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to buy NetDevices, a maker of all-in-one network gateways for branch offices and small and midsize businesses.
Interop Las Vegas 2007 planning guide
Whether you own a five-employee business or are CIO of a Fortune 500 company, almost everything you need to know about running your network can be learned at Interop.
Video
Giving NAC a whirl
Whirlpool’s pilot of NAC raises hopes hopes for better security and increased use of Web services. Alex Petrov, global principal network architect at Whirlpool explains who the company tested and what those trials entailed on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap.
Blogs
Did I say 2010?
Author Expert Jeff Doyle: “Last Monday, I cited Geoff Huston’s study, which projected the IPv4 depletion of the IANA pool to be mid-2011. The study has now been updated and the exhaustion of the IANA IPv4 pool is predicted to happen in December 2009, and the exhaustion of the RIR to be September 2010.”
Today on Layer 8, where our reputation sparkles no matter what you read on the bathroom wall:If you don’t like what you find or see about yourself on the Web there’s a growing community of companies that can expunge or at least water down the bad stuff and save your reputation – for a price, of course.Buzzblog: A quarter of under-30s now go cell-only
More than a quarter of the under-30 crowd has decided you only need one telephone … and it sure as heck does not plug into a wall. The trend toward an all-mobile lifestyle is accelerating, too, according to a new survey, and there appears to be little doubt that the traditional landline will be joining rotary dials and party lines as relics someday.
