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• Cisco engineers publish wireless dictionary Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Wed, 12/03/2008
  
  Cisco wants to write the wireless book. Well, two Cisco employees do anyway. Joel Barrett, a senior-level wireless networking expert; and Vinay Saini, a software/QA engineer within Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit have written a dictionary of wireless terms and acronyms for Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP), which provides wireless LAN certification. The dictionary covers Wi-Fi and frequently used wireless terms and provides coverage of all CWNP exam terms and acronyms, according to CWNP.

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• Cisco MARS in the doghouse? Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Wed, 12/03/2008
  
  In August last year, Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group praised the success of Cisco MARS (Monitoring Analysis and Response System), noting that Cisco is giving away "the razors [MARS] to sell the blades [Cisco's core networking gear]," and that "No one can schmooze the enterprise networking crowd like Cisco." Now Oltsik has changed his opinion, referring to poor MARS a product in Cisco's "doghouse".

  In his blog on cnet, Oltsik explains that Cisco in 2005 and 2006 aggressively pushed the security product into end-user accounts but the product "languished behind competitive offerings, causing problems with the installed base." He cites competition from Enterasys, Juniper, and Nortel, which established partnerships with Q1 Labs. Also, "some Cisco sales executives and channel partners eschewed MARS in favor of more popular Cisco products. When you have a portfolio of hundreds of products, it is easy to lead with your best stuff and never mention those in the doghouse," Oltsik writes.

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• Cisco workers sing for their ethics training Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Wed, 12/03/2008

  Cisco workers are singing the praises of their ethics training courses. Instead of using a stuffy and dry training course to teach workers ethics, Cisco is using an interactive training program that mimics the TV show American Idol, according to a story in Ragan.com. Cisco's "Ethics Idol" is a series of four interactive flash modules that employees can access from their desktops. In each episode, an animated contestant describes an ethical dilemma in a witty song parody, according to Ragan.com.

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• Video: A peek inside Cisco's DNA data center lab Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Tue, 12/02/2008

  If you wanted to peek inside Cisco's data center, here's your chance. Tech geek blogger Robert Scoble took his camera with him on his recent tour of Cisco's Data center and Network Applications (DNA) Lab in San Jose, Calif. The lab, although is a test data center for customers, is close in design to Cisco's production data center, according to one of the Cisco executives who hosted the Scoble tour. In the video, you'll see many Cisco technologies in action, including the Nexus family, Catalyst switches, and VFrame.

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