Network World Cisco Alert |
| |
|
| We review 7 low-cost VPN services for when you’re out of the office or out of the country. Read More ▶ |
|
| | | Microsoft was a late entrant into the unified communication market. In a very short period of time, the company has jumped from relative obscurity to the #2 market share vendor and now offers a robust premises based solution with Skype for Business (formerly Lync) and burgeoning cloud service within Office 365. Microsoft’s best partner throughout this journey has been Polycom, which is the main supplier of IP phones to Microsoft Skype for Business or Office 365 customers. Read More ▶ |
| | With that in mind the agency is launching a potentially scary program called “Improv” that looks at what DARPA calls today’s “bustling tech marketplace with an inventor’s eye and imagine how easily purchased, relatively benign technologies might be converted into serious security threats.” The technology scope of Improv is intentionally broad and the program is structured to encourage participation by a wide range of technical specialists, researchers, developers, and skilled hobbyists. Performers may reconfigure, repurpose, program, reprogram, modify, combine, or recombine commercially available technology in any way within the bounds of local, state, and federal laws and regulations, DARPA stated. Read More ▶ |
| | We all remember the Verizon Wireless commercials that asked “Can you hear me now?”. While the ad campaign may have been repetitive, Verizon was driving home the point that its network had broad wireless network reachability. While they were effective in winning customers, the message of coverage and signal strength only only told part of the story. Your phone can be charged up, you can have four bars of signal, but maybe the person at the other end has a lousy signal and your call is dropped. Just having good performance on one end of the line does not translate to good performance at the other end of the line. In reality there are many factors that affect wireless performance. Read More ▶ |
| | | | Cisco Systems has patched high-impact vulnerabilities in several of its cable modem and residential gateway devices that are distributed by some ISPs to their customers. Read More ▶ |
| | A patch has been released for a component that enables chats in several instant messaging clients to be encrypted. Read More ▶ |
| Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World’s LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity).
Network World on Facebook ▶
Network World on LinkedIn ▶ | | SLIDESHOWS Four years of Raspberry Pi: In pictures Read More ▶ | Most-Read Stories |
|
|
|
