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Carrier Ethernet 2 standardisation aims for global connectivity
The Metro Ethernet Forum has updated its Carrier Ethernet specification, hoping to standardise the use of Ethernet for global multicarrier services.
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Cisco jumps on "consumerisation" bandwagon with collaboration products
Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.
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Microsoft's cloud BPOS suite in fresh outage
Microsoft's BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage on Wednesday, the latest in a string of technical problems in recent months.
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Skype says "supernode" problem took millions offline
Internet telephony giant Skype blamed its peer-to-peer interconnection system for a problem that some reports said resulted in millions of users being unable to make calls using the service on Wednesday.
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Voltaire produces next generation Infiniband FDR switches
The next generation InfiniBand FDR standard competes with Ethernet for conveying high-throughput, low-latency traffic.
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FBI seizes $143 million of fake Cisco hardware
The FBI and other 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 US$143 million worth of fake Cisco hardware, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.
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Citrix packs more users into same hardware
Citrix Systems has shown new nCore technology that allows its high-end Citrix NetScaler appliances to deliver Web 2.0 applications and cloud services for more users with no new hardware investments required.
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Force10 touts supercomputing success
10Gig Ethernet specialist Force10 Networks has claimed that its switch/routers are now integral to more than a dozen of the world's top 40 supercomputers.
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Explorer hole can crash your PC and compromise your system
Cisco also suffers big security problem.
