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  • Meru packs diagnostic, security features into Wi-Fi management software

    Meru Networks is adding new features to its enterprise Wi-Fi diagnostics, monitoring and security software, along with a new radio frequency scanner for spectrum analysis. The goal is to improve wireless reliability to the point where it can work as a network service, analogous to wired Ethernet.

    Written by John Cox27 May 10 07:33
  • Cisco powers up router, switches for smart grids

    Cisco this week is unveiling a switch and a router designed to help utilities construct IP-based infrastructures for power delivery, monitoring and control.

    Written by Jim Duffy25 May 10 22:39
  • Cisco takes wraps off home TelePresence

    It's not just Google who has taken the leap into consumer appliances. Just the day after the search company launched the Google TV, Cisco has announced trials of a consumer version of its TelePresence videoconferencing system according to a Reuters report. The company has also announced that TV channel ESPN will be using Telepresence to transmit World Cup football from South Africa.

    Written by Maxwell Cooter24 May 10 07:05
  • Cisco makes another optical acquisition

    Cisco announced plans to acquire privately held CoreOptics, a designer of digital signal processing technology for optical networking applications, for $99 million in cash.

    Written by Jim Duffy21 May 10 03:43
  • Juniper seeks to out-virtualize Cisco in data centers

    Juniper Networks' <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/051710-juniper-collapses-data-center.html">announcement</a> this week of switches and routers designed to flatten and simplify legacy networks is the latest sign that this company has no intention of backing off in the face of ever stiffer data center competition from Cisco, HP and others.

    Written by Jim Duffy21 May 10 07:31
  • Cisco buys Moto -- no, not that Moto

    Cisco Tuesday said it intends to acquire privately held Moto Development Group, a product design consulting firm that helped develop Cisco's Flip video camera. Moto, not to be confused with Motorola (which sometimes is referred to by the nickname Moto), develops products and product strategies for the consumer industry.

    Written by Jim Duffy19 May 10 04:40
  • CA teams with Cisco and delivers new cloud, virtualisation technologies

    CA is expanding its partnership with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> and unveiling several new management products to improve cloud computing and virtualisation deployments, the company said in a series of announcements Monday at CA World in Las Vegas. The new products are based partly on technology acquired in CA's recent <a href=" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022410-ca-acquisition.html">buying spree</a>, in which the company purchased vendors 3Tera, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111110-ca-buys-oblicore.html">Oblicore</a> and Cassatt.

    Written by Jon Brodkin18 May 10 01:57
  • Juniper to disclose cloud plans: report

    Juniper is preparing to announce how it plans to participate in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/utility.html">cloud computing</a>, according to a bulletin issued this week by an investment firm.

    Written by Jim Duffy14 May 10 00:57
  • Cisco back to pre-slump growth in Q3

    Cisco Systems emerged from the effects of the global economic downturn in its fiscal third quarter ended May 1, posting what Chairman and CEO John Chambers said was probably the company's best quarter ever.

    Written by Stephen Lawson13 May 10 10:15
  • Cisco back to pre-slump growth in Q3

    Cisco Systems emerged from the effects of the global economic downturn in its fiscal third quarter ended May 1, posting what Chairman and CEO John Chambers said was probably the company's best quarter ever.

    Written by Stephen Lawson13 May 10 06:30
  • US agencies crack down on counterfeit networking hardware

    US agencies targeting the sale of counterfeit networking hardware have gotten 30 felony convictions, including a man attempting to sell fake networking equipment to the US Marine Corps, and seized $US143 million worth of fake Cisco hardware, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.

    Written by Grant Gross07 May 10 07:39
  • Cisco closes Tandberg video acquisition

    Cisco Systems closed its acquisition of Tandberg on Monday, formally ending a tense struggle over the fair value of the Norwegian videoconferencing vendor.

    Written by Stephen Lawson20 April 10 11:43
  • DOJ won't challenge Cisco acquisition of Tandberg

    The U.S. Department of Justice won't challenge Cisco Systems' US$3 billion acquisition of video-conferencing service provider Tandberg, the agency announced Monday.

    Written by Grant Gross30 March 10 05:51
  • WAN optimisation saves heavy equipment dealer $400K

    Brisbane-based mining and heavy equipment supplier Hastings Deering has achieved a rapid ROI with a WAN optimisation project spread across 16 remote office locations.

    Written by Rodney Gedda26 March 10 15:48
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