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Cisco published no less than 12 new security advisories on September 24 describing multiple moderate and high risk vulnerabilities that affect the IOS software and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Software updates have been released to address some of these security issues, so updating immediately is highly ... |
25 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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The debut of September 2008 marked the one year anniversary of the Microsoft and Cisco marriage on the interoperability front. The two companies permitted customers to dictate the next move in their competitive "ballet," and in this regard kicked up a notch the interoperability level of Cisco hardware and Microsoft s... |
4 September 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Cisco updated their previously released advisory, regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability in WebEx Meeting Manager, with a permanent patch. The vulnerability, with a 9.3 Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base score, can allow for arbitrary code execution if exploited successfully.An ActiveX control buffer overflo... |
18 August 2008
10:24 GMT |
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As we told you before, Intel is placing significant importance on the development of WiMAX on a global scale. As part of the company's commitment to offer users a worldwide spread WiMAX network, Intel has recently announced that it will partner with a number of other major companies in order to accelerate widesp... |
11 June 2008
04:45 GMT |
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The United States government is reportedly using no less than 3500 fake Cisco-branded network devices, including routers, network switches and hubs. According to the investigation results, the fake devices are worth up to $3.5 million. The FBI has been keeping an eye on the China imports of networking gear for some t... |
12 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Network giant Cisco could dissolve its Linksys home networking-oriented brand sooner than anyone would expect. The networking specialist has been selling its consumer and small-business products under both brands, a strategy that is proven to confuse the consumer.According to Cisco's chairman and CEO John Chambe... |
15 April 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Motherboard manufacturer DFI has just issued a consumer warning about some fake motherboard models that are touted as manufactured by the company. However, despite the fact that the counterfeit units are similar with DFI's models, the imitations are stamped as DFI MCP78V and MCP68PV, two models that are not pres... |
14 April 2008
05:35 GMT |
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United States Air Force Secretary plans to add more satellite clusters and IP routing devices into space, in order to boost the satellites' performance. According to Wynne, the current embedded routing technology is not efficient anymore."Even as we've moved to smaller mission satellites, embedded router te... |
10 April 2008
06:18 GMT |
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WebEx, who is now part of Cisco has increased its support for the Mac across its entire suite, as adoption of the platform has more than doubled in the last year. WebEx Meeting Center, WebEx WebOffice, WebEx Event Center, WebEx Training Center, WebEx Sales Center and WebEx Support Center now offer cross platform supp... |
26 March 2008
12:01 GMT |
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Sun's executive vice president of processor division David Yen announced its departure from the company after about 20 years spent at the server vendor. The ex-head of Sun's semiconductor unit is alleged to join networking gear manufacturer Juniper Networks.According to Sun spokespersons, Yen's positio... |
25 March 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Lockdown Networks, one of the Intel-funded prodigal sons, was forced to shut down its activities because of "economic conditions and a lack of demand" in its network access control products. The company made the mistake of competing against the network giant Cisco in the network access control business.Intel started ... |
21 March 2008
10:23 GMT |
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xtreme Networks has just announced new features for its upcoming Ethernet switches, that will make the transition between time-division multiplexing to Internet Protocol technologies inside corporate and enterprise networks.The company is trying to outpace its most fierce competitors on the networking market, Cisco ... |
10 March 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Cisco Systems is one of the world's top-tier networking gear providers, and its products are extreme popular among professionals and enterprise customers. In fact, they are so popular that counterfeit devices have started to emerge on the market.The US and Canadian customs authorities have seized about $78 milli... |
1 March 2008
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After it has released its latest server operating system to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, Microsoft is now ready to push Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 one step further and onto Cisco WAAS appliances. All with Cisco's blessing, of course. The two companies have produced a joint announcement revealing th... |
26 February 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Cisco has just introduced the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor, a fully integrated and programmable networking chipset that can be called the most advanced piece of networking semiconductor in the world. It took Cisco more than five years to bake the 40-core networking chip, and now it's here and ready to kick some b... |
26 February 2008
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Networking expert Cisco is reported to join worldwide cities in order to experiment on energy efficiency. Currently present in Seoul, Lisbon, Madrid, San Francisco and Hamburg, the company attempts to find the perfect recipe to spread all over the world.Cisco has equipped one of San Francisco's municipal buses w... |
21 February 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Network specialist Cisco has just announced that it finished outlining the upcoming wireless network of 2,500 routers at the Duke University. The effort resulted in world's largest 802.11n network owned by a single organization to date.While the 802.11n standard is still in draft form, wireless networking gear p... |
20 February 2008
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Networking giant Cisco Systems announced a 7.2 percent rise in quarterly profit. The company has announced increased revenue especially by selling its telephony gear. The company's figures were just as expected by the Wall Street analysts, and brought Cisco a raise of 1.2 percent in its shares."One of the key is... |
7 February 2008
02:51 GMT |
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IBM has been reported to open two new offshore outsourcing centers in India. It may seem surprising, but the company is facing serious problems regarding workforce availability, since finding and retaining quality IT staff has become a challenge.The company announced that it has already opened the gates of a new glob... |
6 February 2008
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Networking gear is extremely delicate, and many users get in contact with it through a thick and protective layer of glass that guard locked cabinets. At this point, nobody would ever think of smashing it with a hammer or shaking it to "death".Home networking is extremely different from the harsh, industrial environm... |
5 February 2008
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Cisco has released a plan to boost the Indian number of networking engineers from about 60,000 as available today to 360,000 within five years. The new engineers will be trained by Cisco and certified on Cisco networking gear and technologies. There have been rumors recently that alleged that Cisco is having financia... |
5 February 2008
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Juniper is not too much of a name in home and small office networking market, but enterprise level system administrators hiding inside server closets have many times seen the company as a reliable partner. The enterprise networking sector is currently dominated by Cisco Systems, and all that it takes for Juniper to c... |
31 January 2008
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Cisco, the top provider of routers and switches that direct Internet traffic, and by that, one of the companies holding the weight of Internet on its shoulders, has said in the voice of its Chief Executive, John Chambers, that the continuing build of networks will be lasting for a decade from now on. The deadline he ... |
30 January 2008
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Networking expert Cisco Systems has started promoting its new networking switch, the Nexus, that is alleged to be the first component of the Data Center 3.0 architecture. At the same time, the new product is a refurbished version of Cisco's Catalyst 6500, one of the company's sweetheart products.The new Ne... |
28 January 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Server expert IBM and networking specialist Cisco have jointly announced the opening of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, as an extension of IBM's already existing Montpellier HPC Center.The new facility will be used by the companies' customers and business partners for testing or benchmarking anal... |
22 January 2008
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Networking solutions specialist Cisco has started pumping up significant amounts of cash into SoonR, a company that provides its subscribers with mobile access to their desktops.Both parties refused to elaborate on the details of their financial partnership, but SoonR issued a statement early this week that alleged t... |
11 January 2008
11:38 GMT |
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Cisco is the world leader in networking and telecommunications devices. The home Internet connection is routed by Cisco's networking gear, just as mobile communications and whatever might connect us with the rest of the planet. However, these things don't keep Cisco busy enough so the giant is determined to... |
11 January 2008
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Cisco, the networking giant, plans to introduce a new technology that would allow server and storage vendors collect critical data about equipments and send it to Cisco via the manufacturer's networking devices. Cisco will use open standards in order to collect essential data, such as power consumption, operati... |
28 December 2007
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Cisco's executive vice president and chief development officer, Charles Giancarlo, will resign from his post as of December 31. The 50-year old executive was the second-in-command at the company and will put an end to a 14-year career with the networking expert.According to the company CEO John Chambers, he repe... |
21 December 2007
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Cisco Systems has announced that the company will soon unveil new lines of consumer products, such as video set-top boxes. The company aims at taking the lead in the consumer electronics business, just as they have managed to conquer the telecom and corporate sectors with their networking gear.According to the compan... |
21 December 2007
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Intel announced the free availability of their software initiator package to support development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. The company has released Fibre Channel over Ethernet source code for Linux. The FcoE is still under ratification, but this is alleged to allow Fibre Channel SANs traffic ... |
20 December 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Cisco Systems have disclosed their plans for accelerating the deployment of wireless networks in 2008. The company said that the 802.11n standard will become an important player in the new network architecture. According to Chris Kozup, senior manager of mobile solutions marketing for Cisco, companies are widely adop... |
20 December 2007
03:29 GMT |
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No doubt, Cisco is the prevalent figure when talking about professional networking. The company's connectivity solutions are to be found in extremely large networks with overwhelming traffic as well as in the largest organizations worldwide. Having successfully dominated the business sector, Cisco has shifted fo... |
13 December 2007
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AT&T announced the availability of their coast-to-coast IP/MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) network, able to deliver speeds of up to 40Gbps. The infrastructure is powered by Cisco Systems core routers that allow the provider to quadruple the network capacity. The backbone network provides 40 Gbps speed without us... |
11 December 2007
04:32 GMT |
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Cisco Systems had to pull out chief Carlos Roberto Carnevali after he was charged with tax evasion of up to $845 million in import duties and other taxes. The evasion had been the subject of an internal investigation and revealed that Carnevali and 15 other employees of Cisco Systems worked with distributor Mude Come... |
26 November 2007
06:32 GMT |
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A Swedish 19-year-old boy was convicted on Monday for breaking into three university computers, The Associated Press reported today. Due to the Swedish laws, the name of the hacker could not be disclosed but he was found guilty for "breaching the systems of the universities in Linkoping, Umea and Uppsala in 2004." Th... |
22 November 2007
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Cisco Systems has introduced two new products designed to blow away the network traffic: the Catalyst 6500 Series VSS (virtual switching system) 1440 and the Catalyst 4500 E-Series. Though the devices belong to the same family, they are aimed at different markets and consequently have distinct features.The Catalyst 6... |
21 November 2007
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Cisco has folded their Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group, but this doesn't mean that the company will no longer continue their research. It was all a part of restructuring the company, but this has not yet been publicly announced. However, Dark Reading found out about this and even displayed a statement o... |
11 October 2007
09:14 GMT |
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Wireless technology is starting to attract the big names from the traditional wired networking segment and while this may not be the best thing, it is certainly one of the facts. As the big companies are focusing their attention on the new technology, the smaller start-up outfit may get squashed or get assimilated as... |
2 October 2007
08:12 GMT |
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Cisco Systems, a well-known and respected company in the corporate and enterprise networking solutions, announced that is will start shipping wireless products based on the newer 802.11n standard in October. Among the big players on the networking field, Cisco Systems is the first company to start shipping access poi... |
4 September 2007
10:44 GMT |
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There are situations where localized storage is not an option at all or it is not the best possible way of doing things. In situations where information is needed by a high number of users it is often better to keep it stored on a dedicated server that allows network connections to be established and which supports r... |
24 August 2007
08:41 GMT |
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Cisco Systems reported a high quarterly profit backed up by increasing revenues as more and more companies and enterprises invest in renewing their networking equipment. Cisco Systems is a manufacturer and vendor of routers, switches and other types of networking equipment. As the Internet expands and all major compa... |
8 August 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Cisco Systems is still undecided about its corporate strategy concerning the consumer and small business division named Linksys. First, Cisco chairman and chief executive officer, John Chambers said that his company may drop the Linksys brand altogether at a discussion with the European press, according to the Uberpu... |
31 July 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Cisco Systems announced that it will buy a small share for 150 million dollars in the virtualization expert company Vmware, which is a subdivision of the EMC company. For 150 million dollars Cisco will control about 1.6 of Vmware's shares, but this is less important than the fact that Vmware is the leader of a v... |
27 July 2007
11:21 GMT |
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As many other IT hardware companies, 3Com is considering moving its production base to Asia, because of lower costs in term of manpower. That work force in Asian countries is much cheaper that in the U.S. or Europe and companies can squeeze a bigger profit margin.3Com management hopes that by moving the company'... |
12 July 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Microsoft, Cisco and EMC, have joined forces under the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) umbrella, for an initiative designed to produce a technology architecture to enable the protection and secure sharing of sensitive information. While SISA is focused on delivering solutions for the government, Micros... |
10 July 2007
06:23 GMT |
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Cisco and Nokia Siemens have decided to become partners for developing a standards-based network management platform. Their interest is to bring new services for highly developed networks.This partnership means that Cisco and Nokia Siemens will provide solutions for network resources, no matter which platform, techno... |
22 May 2007
12:10 GMT |
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When Apple and Cisco agreed to share the iPhone name in February, and dismissed any pending actions regarding the trademark, they also agreed to explore opportunities for interoperability, in the areas of security and communications, both consumer and enterprise. Now, the two companies are exploring a half-dozen ways... |
19 April 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Cisco Chief Executive Office John Chambers has downplayed the role and impact that Microsoft will deliver by entering the unified communications market. Chambers focused on the fact that unified communications are an area where Cisco has a considerable advantage over its competitors. And even more so when it comes to... |
6 April 2007
09:58 GMT |
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If there is a movie that people should learn from, that's "The Terminator". Remember good-old governor of California when he was young and had red eyes, but not from sleep deprivation, that's just the one thing to remember when at one point the technology gets too much for us to handle. I've said it an... |
2 April 2007
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