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• From the labs: IT's future today

  For all its promise of revolution, the computing industry often lags behind expectations.

• Six annoying router problems - and solutions

  These days, having access to wireless broadband is an absolute necessity for home offices and small businesses.

• ITU approves G.hn for home networking

  The International Telecommunication Union on Friday gave final approval to G.hn, a standard for high-speed home networking that spans coaxial cable, electrical wiring and phone lines.

• LTE vs WiMAX

  The argument between LTE and WiMAX continues to rage at least three years after it ignited. Though many, except for Sprint and Clearwire in the US, think it might already be over, with LTE the winner.

• Google wants to patent technology used to 'snoop' Wi-Fi networks

  Google's secret Wi-Fi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed Wednesday alleged.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Admin who kept SF network passwords found guilty

  Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday.

• New routers let companies exploit 3G cellular data networks

  Sixnet is introducing hardware to help corporate customers exploit the growing throughput, reach and reliability of expanding 3G cellular data networks.

• Cisco invests in virtualization security start-up

  Cisco and several other investors have given $10.5 million to HyTrust, a start-up that is tackling some of the thornier security problems posed by the growing popularity of VMware's virtualization platform.

• Senetas boosts 1H profit 217% to $450k

  The network encryption hardware developer won several significant contracts during the half-year

• Mobile traffic helps push up optical demand

  Demand for high-speed links to cell sites and homes will rejuvenate sales of optical network equipment this year and help to create a US$16.6 billion worldwide market for it by 2014, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group.

• Avaya launches post-Nortel roadmap

  Avaya’s post-Nortel acquisition product roadmap should provide clarity to Australian customers of both companies according to ANZ managing director, Rob Wells.

• Avaya lays out Nortel migration road map

  Avaya tomorrow will reveal a road map that shows how its customers – in particular its newly minted Nortel customers - can move to unified communications technologies without ripping out existing gear.