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The Cisco Virtual Office-India Solution Addresses Local Challenges to Provide Reliable Remote Access for Home Workers
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cisco IT identified telecommunication service quality, proper software configuration, and power reliability as the top criteria required to deploy a successful remote-access home solution on a...
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How Cisco IT Protects Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
December 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
Cisco IT uses a variety of techniques to protect the Cisco network from DDoS attacks. When the attacks originate from a broad range of spoofed addresses and target mission-critical servers, Cisco...
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How Cisco IT Uses Intrusion Prevention to Protect User Endpoint Devices
July 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of the Cisco Security Agent to Windows desktop systems across the Cisco global network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one...
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How Cisco IT Deployed Cisco Firewall Services Modules at Scientific Atlanta
July 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This case study describes Cisco ITs internal deployment of the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) within the network of the former Scientific Atlanta Company, which was acquired by Cisco in...
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How Cisco IT Provides Remote Network Access for Small Offices and Teleworkers
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Virtual Office solution extends the Cisco routed intranet, via secure VPN Internet connections, into thousands of employees' homes and, in the future, small offices. This case study...
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Trinity University Uses Cisco Network Admission Control to Deny Network Access to Devices With Malware and Viruses
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Trinity University is one of the top private undergraduate institutions in the United States, ranking first among western U.S. universities by U.S. News & World Report for 15 consecutive years. As...
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Cisco IOS IP SLAs Overview
October 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This module describes Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Cisco IOS IP SLAs is a core part of the Cisco IOS software portfolio, which allows Cisco customers to analyze IP service levels...
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Best Practices in Using Reputation-Based Anti-Spam Services for Email Security
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the most efficient, least costly and, remarkably, most effective anti-spam techniques is IP reputation filtering. An incredibly inexpensive technique for the anti-spam gateway, IP...
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Comparing Industry Leading Anti-Spam Services
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The following analysis summarizes the spam catch and false positive rates of the leading anti-spam vendors. Compiled by Opus One, an independent research firm, this report provides data to...
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IronPort PXE Encryption Technology: Safeguarding Business Email
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The more that businesses rely on email, the more critical it becomes to protect confidential email messages from unauthorized eyes. IronPort PXE encryption technology combines robust encryption...
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IronPort Core MTA Architecture
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Email has become the dominant form of business communication, rivaling if not exceeding the importance of voice networks. Indeed, email has had such an extraordinary impact that, like the fax and...
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IronPort Email Authentication
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The problems of spam, viruses, phishing and most email denial-of-service attacks can all be traced back to a single common cause - lack of authentication in the email protocol SMTP. This lack of...
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A Multi-Layered Approach to Preventing Viruses
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
As virus writers create increasingly sophisticated malicious code and find ever more effective methods to propagate, enterprises find themselves scrambling to keep their networks, servers, and...
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IronPort's Multi-Layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
IronPort Anti-Spam combines best-of-breed conventional techniques with IronPort's breakthrough context-sensitive detection technology to revolutionize the fight against email threats. Today's spam...
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Context Adaptive Scanning Engine: Protecting Against the Broadest Range of Blended Threats
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Spam, viruses, malware, spyware, denial of service attacks, and directory harvest attacks are all driven by the same underlying motive - profits. These profits are attained either through the sale...
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PCI Compliance and Data Security for Retailers
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The retail sector is becoming increasingly competitive and globalized. To succeed in this environment, retailers of all kinds are depending on an array of IT infrastructure that increases their...
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2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems...
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2008 Internet Security Trends: A Report on Emerging Attack Platforms for Spam, Viruses and Malware
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
For a time, security controls designed to manage spam, viruses, and malware were working. Loud, high-impact attacks abated. But, as a result of this success, the threats they protected against...
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Cisco IronPort Solutions Provide an Education in Web Security
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Located in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains, the Enumclaw School District supervises the education of K-12 students living within its 444-square-mile boundary. The district, which...
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Technology Provider Gives Cisco IronPort Email Security an A+
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As a leading information technology provider, ePlus inc. provides its federal, municipal and commercial customers with the most advanced products and services to optimize their IT infrastructure...
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Cancer Treatment Centers of America
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Launched in 1988, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has more than 130 guest rooms and outpatient oncology clinics in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington. As spam has increased...
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Cisco Cloud Computing - Data Center Strategy, Architecture, and Solutions
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public sector and federal government agencies are looking for better vehicles to tame IT budgets, and at the same time provide agile IT services to organizations, citizens and constituents. The...
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Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution Positioning for the New PCI DSS Wireless Guideline
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper directly addresses the recommendations listed in the "Information Supplement: PCI DSS Wireless Guideline." This paper addresses these guidelines in relation to the Cisco Unified...
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Cisco Open Platform for Safety and Security: Understand the Mobile Force Architecture Building Block
June 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Open Platform for Safety and Security is an architecture framework for building solutions to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents. The framework comprises six...
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Optimize NetApp SnapMirror Over the WAN With Cisco Wide Area Application Services
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cisco WAAS provides considerable performance improvement for the NetApp SnapMirror application over the WAN by optimizing bandwidth and accelerating TCP flows. The tests results illustrated in...
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Network Services Virtualization
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cisco offers a proven, end-to-end Network virtualization solution that spans the entire network infrastructure, from the backbone to every endpoint. Using the Cisco Network Virtualization...
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Redefine Infrastructure Value: Purpose, Productivity, Potential
March 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Start with an intelligent infrastructure by integrating building infrastructures with next-generation technologies in an environment that will provide the foundation for streamlined operations and...
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Key Performance Benefits of 802.11n
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
It is well documented that wireless performance varies based on a variety of factors such as the type of applications delivered over Wi-Fi or the physical challenges presented by building...
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N-Port Virtualization in the Data Center
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
As customers change their data center architectures to further consolidate data center resources, network-based technology must continue to change to help design and manage the number of devices...
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Integrating an Industrial Wireless Sensor Network With Your Plant's Switched Ethernet and IP Network
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining market acceptance in numerous industrial segments because they are both cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional wired field-buses. WSNs can also...
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Monitoring VoIP With Cisco Network Analysis Module
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In today's complex multimedia networks, the ability to measure the quality experienced by end users is critical. By providing visibility into the quality of VoIP traffic, NAM 4.0 significantly...
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The Role of 3GPP's Evolved Packet Core in the Build-Out of the Mobile Internet
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
With the rise of the Mobile Internet, IP capabilities are coming front and center for many operators.3GPP has responded to this trend with an all-IP core network called the EPC and new...
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Unified Computing Overview
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Virtualization has created a market transition in which IT departments are trying to reduce costs and increase flexibility. Despite this, IT organizations are constantly working against existing...
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Connected Government: Follow Five Imperatives to Thrive in Challenging Economic Times
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The economic stimulus programs of the 1930s funded highways that connected people, enabled mobility, and accelerated trade. This transportation infrastructure paved the way for decades of economic...
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Energy-Efficient Unified Fabrics: Transform the Data Center Infrastructure With Cisco Nexus Series
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Nexus family of products gives data center designers the opportunity to transform data center infrastructure from an Isolated Fabric Topology (IFT) to a Unified Fabric topology (UFT)....
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Explaining 4-Byte Autonomous System (AS) ASPLAIN and ASDOT Notation for Cisco IOS
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper provides insight into the two leading notations for devices supporting 4-Byte Autonomous Systems technology known as ASPLAIN and ASDOT. The ASPLAIN notation is the Cisco IOS default...
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TLS Proxy Vs. Phone Proxy
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances provide a range of security services for Cisco Unified Communications products. Two key functions are Transport Layer Security (TLS) Proxy and...
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Cisco ClientLink: Optimized Device Performance With 802.11n
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Over the next few years Wi-Fi networks will transition to 802.11n technology. During this time many networks will support a mix of 802.11a/g and 802.11n clients. Because they operate at lower data...
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Explaining 4-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Numbers for Cisco IOS
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper explains the changes the 4-octet AS has for the BGP routing infrastructure. It will also explain some technical and operational differences between the traditional 2-octet and 4-octet...
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The Convergence of Physical Safety and Information Technology on Higher-Education Campuses
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Higher-education institutions are taking the next step to increase campus safety by converging their physical safety systems with Information Technology (IT) systems. When campus safety monitoring...
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Independent Review Organization Builds Private Cloud
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
A national independent review organization, ExamWorks, Inc. matches clients in law firms and insurance companies with medical experts for trial testimony, physical examinations, and peer reviews....
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Transportation Firm Simplifies Data Center Management
January 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
PITT OHIO is always there for its customers. The company provides highly reliable supply chain, ground, less-than-truckload, and truckload services. They faces the challenge of Reduce time and...
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Storage Manufacturer Builds Highly Scalable Testing Cloud
December 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
A global company headquartered in Sunnyvale as part of the company's commitment to ongoing innovation and rigorous quality control, NetApp engineers conduct stress tests on new NetApp storage...
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Hosting Service Provider Manages Oracle Applications in Cloud
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
NaviSite, Inc. is a provider of complex hosting, application management, and managed cloud services for the enterprise market. They faced challenge of lower customers' costs for Oracle...
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Creating Cloud-Ready Data Center
July 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Parentix hosts business-critical applications for small and midsize companies, specializing in windows solutions from microsoft and exact software. Challenges they faced are need to accelerate...
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Construction Company Changes Data Center Economics
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Tutor Perini Corporation built its new data center with unified computing system, reducing device count by 60 percent. They face the challenge to reduce data center operating costs, simplify...
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County Builds Centralized Data Center
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
King County located on Puget when the county's data center lease expired, the county Office of Information Resource Management (OIRM) decided to build a highly efficient, scalable, and green data...
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Enabling Government With More Uptime and Speed
October 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
BRZ federal computing centre of Austria, faces the challenge to improve application performance and end user experience, respond to pressure on public sector budgets "To Do More, With Less" and...
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Arizona City Streamlines Data Center Operation to Improve Services
November 30, 2010, 12:00am PST
The City of Mesa is located in Maricopa County, faces the challenge of steady rise in data center power and cooing costs with lack of consolidated, city wide IT environment and time-consuming new...
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Financial Services Company Accelerates Telework
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
SNS REAAL Headquartered in Utrecht faces challenge to improve work-life balance with increase business continuity and minimize real estate cost. The organization found its solution in enabled...
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Financial Transaction Processor Improves Business Continuity
March 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
Jack Henry & Associates needed to move the 3 TB database to its own data center in Houston, Texas. After moving the workload to Houston, the IT team would need to integrate it into...
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Bank Migrates 60 TB to Consolidated Storage
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
Banca Monte Dei Paschi had acquired different storage subsystems. The storage team decided to consolidate nine of the older subsystems onto a more efficient storage platform, to free up data...
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BPS, Innovation as a Model for Business Continuity
April 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Italian banking organisations of necessity have had to address some delicate issues. They faced a challenge to implement a disaster recovery solution following the directives issued by the bank of...
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Indonesia's Leading State-Owned Bank Doubles Banking Application Speed
April 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Bank Rakyat Indonesia Syariah (BRIS) plays a pivotal role in the development of the Indonesian economy. Faces the challenge of slow application response times in branch offices with disruption in...
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Kotak Group Builds State-of-the-Art Data Center on Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Kotak Mahindra Group, one of India's leading financial services provider, they facing the challenge of Siloed data centers across five divisions resulting in duplicated resources and...
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Financial Services Firm Secures New Advantage
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Winterflood Securities is one of the leading liquidity providers in London, their challenge is to respond to explosive growth in data volumes with quicker adaption to new market opportunities....
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Finance Leader Migrates to Next-Gen Application Delivery
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
UBS faces the challenge to replace existing load-balancing solutions approaching end of life with minimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for IT and to overcome 1 Gbps bandwidth limitation to...
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Online Consumer Media Company Optimizes Broadband Video
May 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
PureVideo Networks, faced business challenge to respond to fast-paced and changing business needs to reduce Operational Expense (OPEX) associated with application costs which provide a superior...
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Arena Provides Great Guest Experience and Maximizes Revenues
February 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Minnesota Wild is a professional ice hockey team faced challenge to Maximize sales revenues during events which provide excellent guest experience with simplify IT. They switched to Cisco...
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Media Company Grows Revenue From Internet Streaming
November 30, 2010, 12:00am PST
Mediapro is one of the biggest and fastest growing media and broadcast companies in Spain, and a leading player in the European audiovisual market. They faces the challenge to grow audiences and...
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University Pioneers Grid Computing and High-Speed Networking
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The University of Florida contains the business challenge to facilitate faster computations and more conclusive results from multidisciplinary research with collaborate in design and...
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University Deploys Unified Fabric in Data Center
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
University of Arizona the university wanted to modernize its data center to support new initiatives to increase administrative efficiency and reduce costs, such as replacing all enterprise...
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University Builds Scalable Data Center
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
The University of Wyoming offers undergraduate and graduate education, research, and outreach services. There challenges is to accommodate more data center users, applications, and data which...
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School District Provides Next-Generation Learning to Students
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Park Hill School District with business challenge aging servers desire to easily manage servers with Desktops for students, teachers, and administrators who could not afford them. They implement...
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Holmesglen TAFE Reduces Server Hardware Costs by 30%, Uses 50% Less Space in the Data Centre
August 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Holmesglen TAFE challenge is to Replace ageing servers and network equipment to provide a more reliable service to students and teachers. They got the solution of new network, server and storage...
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Online Higher Education Institution Prepares for Growth
February 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Apollo Group is a leading provider of higher education programs for working adults. Apollo Group's learning and business applications reside on approximately 7500 servers in three data centers in...
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Nigerian Bank Transforms Customer Service With Enhanced Communications
May 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Diamond Bank is a strong financial services institution with an effective presence in its home market, which Need to support business growth while reducing costs with desire to improve customer...
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Network Provides Serbian Bank With Platform for Growth
June 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Eurobank EFG had a challenge to build market presence and reach, establish retail banking brand based on product innovation and service and Create technology infrastructure able to sustain growth...
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Egyptian Bank Enhances Customer Loyalty and Efficiency
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Egyptian Bank challenge is to improve customer service in a competitive marketplace with increase productivity and reduce the cost and complexity of back-office operations. They got technical...
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University Uses IP Technology to Increase Opportunities
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) their business challenge is to increase number of students to improve education delivery and teaching quality to...
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Building Croatia's Information Society
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) business challenger is that they provide infrastructure and resources to enable higher education, science, academic research, and government...
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Rate Control and Stream Adaptation for Scalable Video Streaming Over Multiple Access Networks
September 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In a multihomed video streaming system, a video sequence is simultaneously transmitted over multiple access networks to a client. In this paper, the authors formulate the rate control and stream...
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Resource Allocation for Multihomed Scalable Video Streaming to Multiple Clients
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider multihomed scalable video streaming, where videos are transmitted by a single server to multiple clients over heterogeneous access networks. The specific problem that they...
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Cisco Unified Computing System Blade Server Chassis Power Modes
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis is powered by 208V (220V outside the United States) 50-60 Hz AC. Up to four power supply units may be installed, each with a single C20 connector to the...
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EMA: Data Center Management
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) devotes considerable time to discussing current and desired IT management technologies with CIOs and other IT operations personnel. This paper focuses on...
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EMA: The Journey to Unified Computing
April 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The demands of today's data center are vastly different than they were just five years ago. Advances in virtualization have finally brought a truly adaptive data center within your grasp. Cisco...
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Cisco Systems
January 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Now more than ever, individuals, organizations, and companies are looking at environmental effect as a strong factor in their decision-making process. What type of automobile should I buy? What is...
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Securing the Smart Grid
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The smart grid promises a more efficient way of supplying and consuming energy. In essence, the smart grid is a data communications network integrated with the power grid and collects and analyzes...
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A Swarm Intelligence Based Protocol for Data Acquisition in Networks With Mobile Sinks
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the problem of data acquisition in ad hoc and sensor networks with mobile sinks and proposes a protocol based on swarm intelligence, SIMPLE, to route data in such...
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Data Center Design - IP Network Infrastructure
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture is built on the concept of investment protection, allowing incremental integration of new technologies and platforms into the existing infrastructure to meet...
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