Cisco still holds the lion's share of the global network security market but Juniper and pure-play vendors such as Fortinet, McAfee and TippingPoint are closing in fast says IDC
Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. have joined to improve the Wi-Fi experience, initially by delivering better technology for VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and for enabling users to automatically connect to the best nearby network, company executives said.
Researcher Michael Lynn quit his job at Internet Security Systems late last month, then defied ISS and Cisco by revealing that unpatched Cisco routers could be hacked by a buffer-overflow exploit. Until then, corporate network managers had been largely unaware of the risk.
The University of Texas will use dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) technology, mainly used in carrier networks, to solve a looming bandwidth problem between two of the school