Cisco Announces Products, Ships Them 6 to 12 months Later. Why do you care ?
Catalyst 6800 finally shipped. Announced August. Why is this a standard practice ?
Cisco Catalyst 6800: Same Game, New Name
Cisco Catalyst Refresh Gives Customers Just What They Want
Cisco Catalyst Instant Access Overview
Cisco Quad Sup VSS SSO demo

NEC ProgrammableFlow goes to Version 5
- It s big enough to handle OpenFlow everywhere.
- SDN continues to scale,
- NEC focussing on Standards
- HP Networks and their standards focus.
Internet of Things and a House Full of Devices
If you have a houseful of things that connect to the network, what happens to the network ? WiFi ?
CES, IOT and connectivity between all the different devices.
NSA Exploits of Firewalls etc.
The vendors we trust to produce security devices have been comprehensively pwned by NSA by creating BIOS updates that provide persistent access. Even through version updates.
Oracle buys Corent for Software Defined WAN
Is Oracle becoming a networking company or are they just a database company.
[Corente]9http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/corente/index.html)
Desktops sales are down 8% over the year, what does this mean for Campus and Wireless LANs ? More tablets, more smartphones but fewer laptops and probably not many desktops.
Threshold to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015