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• Video streaming gets a boost with new 802.11ac products

  New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video.

• HP works with telcos to sell LANs on a pay-per-use basis

  Hewlett-Packard will allow enterprises to pay for managed LAN offerings based on usage, in much the same way they pay for cloud services, through a partnership with telecom service providers.

• Japanese team targets 24Tbps optical fiber by 2014

  Three of Japan's tech giants will work together to increase data transmission speeds over optical fiber, aiming for 400Gbps per channel by 2014.

• Data speeds power up MWA radio telescope research

  Data processing rates of up to 4 gigabits per second will be realised next year when the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope correlator ramps up from February 2013.

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000

  These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided.

• Mellanox extends InfiniBand across the campus

  Mellanox Technologies has introduced a new set of switches, the MetroX TX6000 series, that can stretch an InfiniBand connection across different buildings.

• Huawei to meet with security researcher who disclosed vulnerabilities in its products

  Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei plans to send a team of engineers to Germany in order to meet with Felix Lindner, a security researcher who earlier this year disclosed vulnerabilities in the company's products, he confirmed.

• Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal network

  In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network.

• US committee to investigate China's Huawei, ZTE

  A US House Intelligence Committee is launching an investigation against Chinese telecommunication equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE to find whether the companies pose a security threat to the country.

• Avaya beefs up switch architecture to compete with Cisco, HP, others

  Avaya this week rolled out extensions to its 4000 series switches and said its year-old virtualized networking architecture is taking hold in campuses and data centers.

• Medical research group skips 40G, makes 'right move' to 100G Ethernet

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization, has implemented a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111909-100g-ethernet-cheatsheet.html">100G Ethernet network</a> to boost bandwidth for advanced data analysis.

• Arista again looks to buck Cisco, others in data center

  Arista Networks this week has rolled out four switches and enhanced software designed to address the scalability, resilience and density requirements of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a>.

• How to lock down your wireless network

  If you operate a wireless network for your home or business, it's important to ward it against opportunistic hackers seeking to steal your data or hijack your Wi-Fi for their own nefarious purposes. We spoke to Steven Andrés, CTO of security consulting firm Special Ops Security, to learn about the best ways to lock down your Wi-Fi. To get started, you'll need to log in to your router's administrative console by typing the router's IP address into your Web browser's address bar. Most routers use a common address like 192.168.1.1, though alternatives like 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.2.1 are also common. Check the manual that came with your router to determine the correct IP address; if you've lost your manual, you can usually find the appropriate IP address on the manufacturer's website.

• Telefónica to improve home networks with Wi-Fi investment

  Telefónica has made an equity investment in Wi-Fi chip maker Quantenna Communications, whose technology it will use to deploy IPTV services in the home, the operator said on Monday.

• Juniper adds OpenFlow to its routers, switches

  Juniper Networks this week said it is making the source code of its OpenFlow application accessible to developers of applications for its Junos networking operating system software.