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- Cisco's fourth quarter's crib sheet: Gauging enterprise spending
- Cisco reports its fourth quarter results Wednesday and analysts are looking for a few signs that the enterprise business has stabilized and an outlook that's a touch optimistic. Cisco is expected to report fourth quarter earnings of 28 cents a share on revenue of $8.5 billion. Cisco...
- Tags: Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Routers & Switches, Sales Strategy, Network Technology, Networking, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- "To remain competitive in an increasingly competitive world, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible. The following are 10 tips for using network technology to help your business increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, improv
- Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward making your business more efficient. To help employees reach the resources they need, many companies are turning to unified communications, which brings together all voice and data communications on a single...
- Tags: Employee, Network, Network Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-07-03
- Using the Cisco IP/TV Streaming Solution With TANDBERG Codecs
- This document gives a description of how to use the Cisco IP/TV Streaming products together with TANDBERG codecs.
- Tags: IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Tandberg, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2009-06-18
- How Vulnerable Are Your Cisco IOS Routers?
- Network security is a top priority for companies, and this includes securing Cisco routers. It is surprising to some that Cisco routers run many services that could create vulnerabilities. Some of these services are enabled by default. This white paper is not an exhaustive listing of all services enabled on...
- Tags: Cisco IOS, Cisco Router, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2009-05-04
- CWAAS - Wide Area Application Services v2.0
- View Available Dates and LocationsDiscover, design, and explain the business value of Wide Area Network WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies in this course. Design and deploy a solution using Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS that improves application performance over the WAN while enabling infrastructure consolidation. Learn to design...
- Tags: Optimization, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Networking, Network Technology
- Training 2009-02-01
- Deploying 10 Gigabit Ethernet With Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
- Today's data centers are being transformed as the most recent server technologies are deployed in them. Multisocket servers with multicore processors deliver immense amounts of computing power in rack-mount servers and blade systems. This vast computing power has stimulated deployment of virtualization software that can more effectively put today's server...
- Tags: Virtualization, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Computing, Ethernet, Servers, Network Technology, Networking, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-01
- IP SLAs - Multioperation Scheduling of IP SLAs Operations
- This paper describes how to schedule multiple operations at once using the Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements SLAs group-scheduling feature. Cisco IOS IP SLAs allows one to analyze IP service levels for IP applications and services, to increase productivity, to lower operational costs, and to reduce occurrences of network...
- Tags: Network, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco IOS IP SLA, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Paessler Netflow Tester 2.0 (Windows)
- Paessler Netflow Tester dumps the data of all Netflow packets that a computer receives from a Cisco router. This can be useful when debugging bandwidth monitoring configurations based on Cisco's Netflow protocol. First the Netflow protocol must be enabled and configured on the router. Then the router must be given...
- Tags: Router, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Cisco Systems Inc., Computer, Paessler, Paessler Netflow Tester, Routers & Switches, Productivity, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-11-09
- Rendezvous Point Engineering
- A Rendezvous Point RP is a router in a multicast network domain that acts as a shared root for a multicast shared tree. Any number of routers can be configured to work as RPs and they can be configured to cover different group ranges. For correct operation, every multicast router...
- Tags: Router, Domain, Cisco Systems Inc., Rendezvous Point, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-11-01
- How Cisco exploits open source
- Accelerate development to create more partners, make high-end partners some serious coin, and who do you think the open source guys are going to hit on first when they have ideas to market? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Router, Partner, Routers & Switches, Linux, Network Technology, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- How Voice over IP Works
- How Voice over IP works for your business is simple: By adding voice to a data network, you'll reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance collaboration.
- Tags: IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking
- Resource centers 2008-09-30
- Vyatta changes the networking game
- "A gigabit Ethernet card for a Cisco router costs $5,000. A gagabit Ethernet card for Vyatta costs $50 and you can buy it at Fry's. Or call the Geek Squad. That's a huge difference in the economics. They both perform the same way. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Game, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Vyatta, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology, Servers, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration: Technology and Best Practices
- As users become more distributed and applications become centralized, poor WAN and application performance for remote users is becoming a serious issue for many enterprises. Increasing bandwidth provides only minimal improvement and significantly raises costs. As a result, many IT managers are evaluating WAN optimization technologies. What benefits can be...
- Tags: Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-07-22
- Transforming the Enterprise WAN Edge
- WAN must support unprecedented traffic growth. Moreover, the trend appears to be accelerating as enterprises continue to add more applications to the network. This places huge demands on the traditional WAN aggregation router and makes the WAN edge an increasingly complex infrastructure to manage. This webcast will demonstrate how the...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-06-10
- Airport's Common Use Model Relies on Modular Switches
- The extraordinary vision of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority GTAA has transformed Toronto Pearson International Airport into one of the most technologically advanced airports in the world. One of the earliest strategic decisions was to replace all of the old stackable switches in the wiring closets and create a more...
- Tags: MPLS, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Cisco IOS Classic Firewall Stateful Failover High Availability Solution
- Stateful Failover for the Cisco IOS Firewall allows a router to continue processing and forwarding firewall session packets after a planned or unplanned outage occurs. A backup secondary router automatically takes over the tasks of the active primary router if the active router loses connectivity for any reason. This process...
- Tags: Cisco IOS, Router, Failover, Cisco Systems Inc., Firewalls, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Network Security, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Cisco refreshes green data center act with new Nexus switch
- Cisco is latching onto the green data center consolidation movement with a new line of switches called the Nexus 5000 series. The company also is making it more attractive for its VARs and resellers to create a data center practice through new incentives that will kick in come August. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Ethernet, Storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Data Management, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- WAN and Application Optimization: Enhancing the WAN Experience With Performance Routing and Wide Area Application Services
- As applications are being centralized, users are becoming increasingly distributed, and as IT organizations are constantly challenged to deliver more services, such as rich content and video to the customers, the performance limitations of WAN, such as limited bandwidth, significantly longer latency, and packet loss, are seriously slowing down application...
- Tags: Performance, Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Cisco Data Center Ethernet: Network Architecture for Data Center 3.0 - At-A-Glance
- Cisco Data Center Ethernet is an architecture based on a collection of open-standard Ethernet extensions to improve and expand Ethernet networking and management capabilities in the data center. It helps ensure delivery over lossless fabrics, I/O consolidation onto a unified fabric, and increased bisectional bandwidth with multipathing at Layer 2....
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Network Architecture, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Data Center Ethernet, Ethernet, Data Centers, Network Technology, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-27
- Transforming the Network Edge: Lufthansa Systems and Cisco Unified WAN Services
- This free News@Cisco video reveals how a new approach to router technology helps one of the world's best known airlines soar smoothly into an evolving world. Lufthansa Airlines VP Bardo Werum knows that to keep planes in the air, it's important to keep data flying too. Now, in this video...
- Tags: Router, Network, Lufthansa, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing
- Presentations 2008-03-04
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