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Juniper enters BYOD management fray with new Gateway products

Juniper has unveiled new and enhanced products designed to secure mobile device access to enterprise networks.
Security, wireless LAN and Ethernet switching top enterprise networking priorities

The top three priorities for CIOs in 2012 are security, wireless LAN and Ethernet switching, according to a survey conducted by investment firm UBS.
Netgear to ship "world's fastest WiFi" using new 802.11ac standard

Gigabit-speed wireless LAN equipment that uses the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard is about to hit the market, with Netgear saying on Thursday that it will start shipping a consumer 802.11ac router in May for a starting list price of £124 (US$199.99).
73% of British households have Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi based home networks were installed in 73% of British households by the end of 2011, and 439 million - or 25% - of homes worldwide, according to market research company Strategy Analytics.
Apple Bonjour protocol tamed by Aruba AirGroup enterprise Wi-Fi tool

Aruba Networks claims with its new AirGroup feature it has found a way for iPads and iPhones to discover and use projectors, Apple TVs, printers and the like without flooding the enterprise Wi-Fi network with multicast discovery messages.
7 ways Alcatel-Lucent hopes to change the conversation

A favorite marketing tagline for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is "Change the Conversation."
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450 to challenge Cisco and HP

Alcatel-Lucent are set tp unveil a new Ethernet switch - the OmniSwitch 6450 - for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.
Brocade unveils interchangeable switches for edge network

Brocade has announced a new campus networking strategy called The Effortless Network, in response to the speed of change at the edge network due to consumerisation and ?Bring Your Own Device? (BYOD) enterprise trends.
Juniper zeros on 7 key market segments

Juniper is aligning its product development, sales and marketing strategy in seven "domains" that reflect challenges their customers face, executives said this week from the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona.
Firms promised improved SLAs when using Carrier Ethernet WANs

Bob Metcalfe, the father of the Ethernet, helped launch the latest Carrier Ethernet-based WANs at NetEvents last week which promised improved service level agreements.

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Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?
Developer support for BlackBerry 10 key to RIM's future

HTML5 and RIM's larger development strategy will come into sharp focus at BlackBerry World in Orlando. This year, it includes the heavily promoted BlackBerry 10 Jam, an intensive, developer-focused agenda for the new operating system, which has not yet been released in final form.
Are zombies sucking the life out of your data centre?

Goodison says zombies tend to happen for one of two reasons. The first is that a server is lightly commissioned by the business for a period of time and becomes a line item in a spreadsheet somewhere. Over time, the need for the application on that server goes away, but there is no tieback to any physical process to decommission it, or if the decommissioning process does take place, it is only partially completed.
Bring your own device - Effective policies and practice in a BYOD environment

Bring your own device (BYOD) is now ubiquitous among enterprises. For IT leaders this has meant developing and maintaining effective policies and practices to keep the organisation secure and efficient, while managing a proliferation of devices.
Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile

The rise of mixed mobile networks of Wi-Fi, small cells and traditional base stations, a major theme of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, may change the competitive landscape of both service providers and equipment vendors.
Self-signed SSL certificates can be secure

Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce "trusted" certificates for our websites, but in the end even Google, Microsoft and state and federal governments are falling victim to fraud.
The good, bad and ugly of 802.11ac

Imagine a world where family members can stream their favorite HD content to different rooms, all while your teenage son uploads his latest HD video "project" to YouTube. Well, with new wireless LAN technology based on 802.11ac quickly approaching - possibly in one or two years - this digital home network paradise could become a reality.
Gigabit wireless gets closer as 802.11ac standard approved

One gigabit wireless LAN products should enter the retail channel for the 2012 holiday season thanks to the fact that the 802.11 working group concluded balloting on the proposed 802.11ac standard last summer, meaning enterprise-focused products should follow in 2013.
Why is converged I/O in data centres taking so long?

So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centres is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it?
SAN/LAN convergence can pay dividends today

Today's workers want faster computing speeds and more storage, management wants it all under budget, and IT professionals are scrambling to save money and improve productivity. The tools of choice to achieve these goals are typically virtualisation, cloud computing and data centre consolidation, but IT may be overlooking a simple but effective fix: storage area network (SAN) and local area network (LAN) convergence.

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Key elements of security

The arrival of the LAN and the internet bought along with it advanced persistent threats. The PC was initially the target of threats but soon after servers and network devices became targets.
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Building secure wireless LAN

This whitepaper will help the wireless network administrator or security manager to understand the security capabilities in a modern Wi-Fi solution, where they should be used and how the WLAN integrates with other security devices in the network. Finally this document will describe how Aerohive provides a comprehensive and market leading Wi-Fi security solution for the enterprise.
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The network impact of 802.11n

802.11n enables significant productivity benefits for mobile computing, while opening up new wireless applications.
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Pattern based authentication

This whitepaper presents an introduction to Pattern Based Authenication (PBA) and demonstrates how it can successfully fulfill end user requirements for robust, reliable and strong authentication.
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Wireless LAN virtualisation

The incremental cost of adding a wireless LAN has come down dramatically. Nearly every laptop sold to businesses today comes with a Wi-Fi radio. Unplugging users from their desks and adding enough access points to cover a campus is often an easier and more affordable path than suffering through another wired Ethernet forklift upgrade.
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