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• Netgear offers customisable open source router
  Plug and program.
• Qumranet tests distributed desktop virtualisation
  KVM sponsor aims to go multi-site.
• SolarWinds simplifies large network monitoring
  Putting it all on one screen.
• Sipera secures advanced UC networks
  Simplifying security for SIP trunks and mobile deployments.
• NEC sinks $300 million into services buy
  Gone NetCrackers.
• WildPackets takes aim at 10Gig networks
  Complex networks becoming mainstream?
• Net domain naming set for major overhaul
  ICANN finally gets its finger out.
• Avaya and Cisco fix VoIP flaws
  Outed by the vulnerability testers.

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• The lowdown on the Techworld product awardsNew
  We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.
• New directions in WAN and app acceleration
  Four network optimisation start-ups with innovative approaches to application acceleration and WAN optimisation.
• How important is the 3GPP femto standard?
  The Femto Forum's standard improves the chances that femto cells will be successful - but has the Forum covered all the bases?

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• How to upgrade a home office routerNew
  Your small router may be capable of tricks that powerful enterprise routers can do but thanks to the firmware in your router, you can't get at them? This article shows you how to.
• Take a new tack for better IT
  Four tactics to improve IT and get better app performance.
• Readers' favourite free network tools
  From sniffing to mapping and monitoring, these ten utilities perform surprisingly sophisticated tasks.

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• Demand and Supply in ITNew
  

  How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.

• The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
  

  Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.

• Oracle Database 11g Application Development
  

  Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.

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• Outsourcing your WAN optimisation
  When is a managed WAN-optimisation service the best option?
• Open source and OLPC could boost wireless mesh
  The finished IEEE standard for wireless mesh networks is still a way off - but open source and the OLPC look like getting it into use quickly
• Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure
  Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement.

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• The lawyers who spread email FUD 
  Legal disclaimers that make you look foolish and incompetent.
• Are WANs facing meltdown? 
  The challenge of keeping bandwidth supply ahead of bandwidth demand.
• Big Brother is alive and well in Manchester 
  Bidding to be the most-watched city in the most-watched country in the world.

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• DrayTek Vigor 2820Vn router New
  A remote office or small office router with ADSL, WAN and 3G failover that doesn't cost the earth? Not possible they said. DrayTek's latest Vigor can do all this and more.
• Aagon Client Management Platform
  A nicely-designed client manager for Windows-based PCs, with central monitoring and a good GUI, and which should scale well, thanks to being based on a proper DBMS.
• 4ipnet MSG100 wireless office controller
  A handy and inexpensive device for multi-zone security, including enforcing access control on both wired and wireless network users.
• PortTracker
  A useful appliance that allows you to monitor what is - and has been - connected to your network, as long as you're running Cisco switches.
• Packeteer iShaper
  Packeteer's combination WAN accelerator and traffic shaper is second to none in speed of CIFS transfers, and among the leaders in overall performance; however, users needing shared byte-level caching musst wait for the next release.

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• Security's virtual badlands
  We hear from Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch why virtualisation is still Terra Incognita for network security technologists - and why he believes his company is worth more its rivals and the stock market seem to think.
• Nortel - what's your WiMax story?
  Nortel has decided to stop making WiMax equipment, but the company says it's still committed to WiMax. How can this be, we asked the company's new head of WiMax.
• Going global with Ethernet
  We hear from Masergy's Tony Hurtado about the challenges and opportunities involved in building Global Ethernet.

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• How Wi-Fi eased the classroom crunch
  Schools are less likely than universities to adopt Wi-Fi - but at Heathland School in West London, teachers saw the need and went for it.
• Barts Hospital adopts co-operative Wi-Fi
  Healthcare has led the charge for centralised Wi-Fi. A leading london takes a contrary position and plumps for Aerohive's controller-free system
• Microsoft: the world's largest WLAN
  It started out as optional, now it's essential. The software giant has covered all its offices in Wi-Fi

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