Breaking: Cisco to slash 6,000 jobs, reallocate resources

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	Cisco laying off 6,000; Q4 revenue, profit flat in 'tough environment' Cisco Systems posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that were roughly flat from a year earlier as the company works through what Chairman and CEO John Chambers called "a tough environment." Read More In this Issue Celebrating 25 years of Cisco Networkers Cisco describes its SDN vision: A Q&A with Soni Jiandani A breakdown of Cisco ACI pricing Emerging networking technology used by Apple, Cisco will frustrate firewalls Cisco's new UCS fabric interconnect: no ACI? Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear Celebrating 25 years of Cisco Networkers This year, Cisco recognizes the 25th anniversary of its Networkers user conference. To put this run in perspective, here's a timeline of Cisco-specific events interspersed with world, national, cultural and technology milestones that occurred over this period. Read More Cisco describes its SDN vision: A Q&A with Soni Jiandani Soni Jiandani is one of Cisco's serial entrepreneurs, having been a key member of the teams that developed everything from the Nexus 5000 to Cisco's Unified Computing System (which in five years has leapt to the top of the x86 blade server market in North America, according to IDC). Today Jiandani is Senior Vice President of Cisco's Insieme business unit, the group pushing the company's Software Defined Networking vision. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught with Jiandani to get her take on how SDN plays out. Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Insieme business unitTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More A breakdown of Cisco ACI pricing Cisco this week released list pricing for several components of its Application Centric Infrastructure fabric, including several Nexus 9000 series switches and ACI software licenses for leaf switches. Cisco is pricing ACI software as a single perpetual license per leaf to "keep it simple and predictable," says Director of Product Management Thomas Scheibe."We don't want to go down the path of per VM or monthly licensing," he said, in a poke at rival VMware's NSX network virtualization platform.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Emerging networking technology used by Apple, Cisco will frustrate firewalls Today's security software is ineffective against an emerging networking technology already in use by Apple for its Siri voice-recognition software, according to research presented at the Black Hat hacking conference this week.The technology, called Multipath TCP (MPTCP), is a souped-up sibling of TCP, a cornerstone Internet protocol for transferring data packets between computers. Cisco and Juniper have also put MPTCP in some of their equipment.But while TCP can only use one connection path to send data, MPTCP can simultaneously use different connection paths, such as Wi-Fi and a mobile phone's data connection, which results in better performance and resiliency.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cisco's new UCS fabric interconnect: no ACI? Cisco has quietly launched a new fabric interconnect for its Unified Computing System servers, which is designed to address requirements for smaller compute domains. There have been reports that the 6324 Fabric Interconnect is either a component of, or actually is a "mini UCS" targeted at mid-market enterprises and SMBs. Cisco Systems The 6324 is integrated directly into the blade server chassis – where Cisco fabric extender modules typically go -- to simplify connectivity between the servers and a lossless 10G Ethernet network fabric, especially in space constrained environments. Up to now, UCS fabric interconnects have been external to the blade server chassis, which requires more data center real estate and might not be as scalable: if each blade server chassis has its own fabric interconnect instead of sharing an external one, you have many more fabric interconnects managing virtual ports.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear The vulnerability affects the OSPF routing protocol implementation on Cisco networking equipment Read More
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