Proving that Cisco has a sense of humor it has posted up a really funny video that takes viewers on a trip down a tech memory lane. A bunch of actors in some ill-fitting wigs depict scenes of friends showing off their latest cool gadgets, such as the Atari 800 and the Apple Newton ("Wouldn't this be a bomb if you could make phone calls out of this thing?"). The video is the first in a series of Digital Cribs, billed by Cisco as an up-close look at celebrity homes and their favorite gadgets. The series includes a look the technologies used by celebs including Meghan Asha (pictured), a roving tech correspondent, girl-about-town and soon-to-be star of her own reality TV show, Shane Battier, NBA basketball player, and Lincoln Shatz, a video artist. READ MORE
Uberpulse is reporting that Cisco will in November go live with its first internal social networking site aimed
at its developer community. The platform, which is based on technologies from start-up Liferay, will enable developers to collaborate more effectively with Cisco engineers by forming ad-hoc groups and seeking out company experts for information, reports Uberpulse.
There are some interesting crumbs dropped by Cisco execs in the company's data center blog that 
describes where Cisco believes the data center is headed. To support new applications such as those presented by Google's Chrome browser and Google Gears, along with the movement of applications away from traditional PCs to mobile devices, Omar Sultan writes that the back end infrastructure will be virtualized and processes would be automated. Meanwhile, Doug Gourlay believes that "networks will consolidate and servers disaggregate."
Nortel, which rarely shies away from poking fun at Cisco has launched an aggressive campaign targeted at 
Cisco customers and what Nortel describes as the $6.1 billion "Cisco Energy Tax" that customers are paying.
It's been a year since Cisco and Microsoft CEOs Steve Ballmer and John Chambers took to the stage to indulge in some collaborative lovefest, which some observers dismissed as just 
PR fluff. Just a day later, the event was overshadowed by Microsoft publishing a white paper detailing how its product is more superior to Cisco's equivalent. Fast foward 12 months and Cisco and Microsoft are set to do battle in the e-mail space through Cisco's recent acquisition of Exchange rival PostPath. Despite the rocky start to the relationship, both companies say the interoperability effort is still full-on, according to an interview with Cisco and Microsoft execs that's posted on Microsoft's Press Pass Web site,
Cisco is warning of multiple security holes in its security appliances that if exploited, could result in a 
reload of the devices or disclosure of confidential information. The company has also issued a fix to a vulnerability in its Cisco Secure Access Control Server, that was discovered by external security researchers.
Cisco continues to control more than half the world's market for service provider IP core and edge routers, according to figures released today by Infonetics Research. The research firm says Cisco posted a 15% gain in combined IP edge and core router revenue and that Cisco has been the biggest shipper of these routers since 2005.
Former Cisco exec Jayshree Ullal turns up at a security SaaS start-up09/03/08
Cisco recognizes that network management is one of its biggest challenges - one that is getting bigger as it continues to add acquisitions to its portfolio. According to this story by Network World's Jim Duffy, 
Cisco doesn't have ambitions to create an all-encompassing network management framework, similar to HP's OpenView, rather its tools are an "enabler" of those systems to share events, alarms and diagnostic data. Cisco Subnet bloggers share their wish list for Cisco in network management: Michael Morris suggests that Cisco hire someone from Apple to improve its IOS user interface, while Larry Chaffin singles out CiscoWorks as in need of a user interface face-lift.
FREE Cisco tools: NetQoS network latency calculatorNetQoS is offering a free tool, the NetQoS Latency Calculator to help network engineers ensure application performance across the WAN. The company claims this tool allows you to model network latency ...Read more
Brad Reese is research manager at BradReese.Com, advancing the careers of 1 million certified individuals in the growing Cisco Career Certification Program.
Get Smart about CCNA Security – Part 2 of 2(Wendell here - Kevin's wrapping up today on CCNA Security - thanks, Kevin!) Kevin Wallace, CCIE #7945, CCSI, CCSP, CCNP, CCDP, CCVP, is a full-time instructor of Cisco courses for SkillSoft ...Read more
Wendell Odom, CCIE No, 1624, splits time between writing books for Cisco Press and teaching classes for Skyline ATS. His books include titles on QoS, CCIE R/S, as well as several titles related to CCNA certification, including his newest book Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802) (Read a sneak peek of chapter 7). Follow Wendell's blog here. More free chapters from other Cisco Press books here.
Cisco Home Networking ContestCisco held a fun event that ended recently with winners announced in The Cisco Home Networking Contest. The rules seemed pretty simple. Send a diagram and description of your home ...Read more
Morris is a Technical Team Lead and Network Architect at a $3 billion high-tech company. His background is in enterprise WANs working with telcos, and developing large-scale routing designs.
USB Key...best hacking tool?USB hacking is certainly not new, we have been building Linux shells on USB keys for years. The U3 USB drive from SanDisk really changed our methods of launching hacks. What ...Read more
Jimmy Ray Purser is the technical co-host for Cisco's TechWise and BizWise TV. Jimmy Ray also conducts advanced training for engineers across North America and Europe and regularly speaks at industry conferences such as VON, CeBIT, N+I, and Networkers. More about TechWise and BizWise TV.
Google’s Chrome raises security concerns and tastes like chicken feet I installed Google’s new Chrome web browser (beta) last Thursday to see what all the hype is about. My first impressions of Chrome are not stellar. In fact ...Read more
Jamey Heary, CCIE No. 7680, is a security consulting systems engineer at Cisco. Jamey is the author of Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access. Read a chapter from the book here. Follow Jamey's blog here. More free chapters from other Cisco Press books here.
Getting help in JUNOSI discussed in the previous post how candidate configurations, explicit commits, and rollbacks greatly increase the reliability of configuration changes in JUNOS and reduce the risk of configuration mistakes. Heaven ...Read more
Jeff is president of Jeff Doyle and Associates, an IP networking consultancy, and author of Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I (read an excerpt) and II. Read the transcript of our live online text chat with Jeff entitled "IPv6: Will matter to the enterprise in five years."
Where is the Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) 674 and Cisco WAAS v4.1 that won Interop?Last week I received a post on an old blog, please see below. ****************************************************** Submitted by Tito M. (not verified) on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 1:53pm. Larry, I still have not seen this ...Read more
Larry Chaffin, Ph.D, is the CEO/chairman and founder of Pluto Networks a consulting company specializing in VoIP, WLAN and security. He is also author of a number of books including Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, and Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1.
Cisco Unified Communications - Home Lab (CUCM Details)This blog will cover running CUCM and/or CUCME for a home lab environment. I put together my home lab over seven years ago when Call Manager 3.0 could not ...Read more
Dennis Hartmann, CCIE No. 15651, is a unified communications consultant and author of Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 1. Dennis is also a lead instructor at Global Knowledge.
The Trouble with IPsec VPNs, Part#2: MethodologyA while back, I started blogging on the subject of IPsec troubleshooting. In that blog post, I mentioned that in order to successfully troubleshoot IPsec in a fast and efficient ...Read more
Mark Lewis (CCIE#6280) is an independent consultant who helps service provider and large enterprise clients design and implement leading-edge technologies. Mark has designed and implemented a variety of large-scale technology solutions including VPN, MPLS, QoS, data center, and IP telephony. Mark is the author of Comparing, Designing, and Deploying VPNs; Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks; and CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets.
Cisco and Linksys Channel Programs Get Merged Cisco Systems has announced the elimination of the Linksys channel program, and the intent to fold as many as 20,000 channel partners into the “Registered” tier of the overall Cisco ...Read more
Ken Presti is president of Presti Research & Consulting, Inc., which specializes in go-to-market strategies for technology vendors and service providers.
Transporting Fax Communications - Passthrough Versus RelayThose that are new to the transport of fax communications over IP (FoIP) are confronted with two different transport methods, passthrough and relay. Conceptually, passthrough is the same as a ...Read more
David Hanes, CCIE 3491, is an engineer within Cisco's Customer Assurance Engineering (CAE) team, where he assists with fax over IP (FoIP) solution design, troubleshooting, and new product testing. David regularly speaks and provides training on Cisco FoIP solutions and is the co-author of the book Fax, Modem, and Text for IP Telephony. Enter to win a copy of the book. Read a sneak peek of the book.
The Power of IP Video - IntroductionWelcome to our blog! The kind people at Network World asked Nader and I to be guest bloggers during the month of September, and we were very pleased ...Read more
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Cisco warns of WebEx ActiveX security hole
Cisco is warning of a buffer overflow flaw in an ActiveX control used by the WebEx Meeting Manager. If exploited, hackers could execute arbitrary code on the user client machine. The WebEx Meeting Manager is a client-side program that is provided by the Cisco WebEx meeting service, which automatically downloads, installs, and configures Meeting Manager the first time a user begins or joins a meeting. Workarounds to the problem is available at Cisco, which said WebEx is in the process of upgrading the meeting service infrastructure with fixed versions of the affected file. READ MORE.
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Cisco has launched a support wiki for partners and customers to share their knowledge of Cisco gear on top of Cisco documents. According to Cisco: "This augmentation of knowledge gives our user community a medium to share knowledge and improve their overall effectiveness."
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