30 day countdown until Cisco releases Microsoft-NAP friendly NAC gear

A story in Network World’s Network Access Control newsletter reports that Cisco will have its Microsoft-compatible NAC gear ready in

about a month, which should be good news for a lot of potential NAC users who are customers of both vendors. Cisco NAC being compatible with Microsoft network access protection (NAP) means users can deploy NAC without having to also deploy a NAC client. Instead, endpoints using Microsoft Vista and XP with Service Pack 3 can use the built-in NAP client.

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