AirMagnet bids to analyse Cisco
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"Vell...Cisco's just zis guy, y'know?" WLAN analysis outfit AirMagnet has brought out software designed to work with Cisco's Unified Wireless Network. AirMagnet already has a version of the tool, which is called Enterprise Analyzer, for Aruba's Mobile Edge Architecture.â¦
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Yankee Group senior analyst Zeus Kerravala told the E-Commerce Times that CleanMachines is a good fit for Cisco&#39;s Network Admission Control (NAC) architecture.
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Cisco has bought IP service control vendor P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California, in a cash deal worth about $200m. The company says the deal should allow its customers to run advanced IP services such as voice
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Cisco Systems is making an acquisition designed to reinforce its security lineup, the company said Thursday. The networking giant announced it will pay $74 million in cash for San Francisco start-up Perfigo, a developer of network access control products.
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Overview: This webinar will provide insight into the results of the first independent industry evaluation of Cisco&#39;s 40-Gig core router, the Carrier Routing System (CRS-1).
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Cisco Systems has agreed to buy software developer P-Cube in a cash-and-options deal Cisco valued at $200m (Â£110m). P-Cube makes software to help service providers analyse and control network traffic.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc. is clearing the air around enterprise wireless LANs with a partner that specializes in radio spectrum analysis. The company is offering Cognio Inc.'s Spectrum Expert for Wi-Fi, a tool for studying interference around a wireless LAN, to complement its own Wireless Control System. Together, the tools are intended to help enterprises lay out wireless LANs and take care of rogue wireless gear and interference from a variety of sources, including non-Wi-Fi devices such as microwave ovens. Cognio's product is available now through Cisco's regular sales channels. Interference and security are two key issues for enterprises that want to set up comprehensive wireless LANs for demanding new applications, namely VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). Cognio is one of many specialist companies that offer tools for working out those issues. Cisco, which is betting big on the spread of Wi-Fi from vertical industries to general businesses, wants to make sure its networks deliver a good experience. The Spectrum Expert is a CardBus device that plugs into a Windows notebook and works with software to detect and identify interfering devices and help a technician locate the device. Wireless LAN security systems from AirMagnet Inc., Fluke Networks Inc. and WildPackets Inc. use Cognio technology. Cisco's Wireless Control System is a server-based application for planning, designing, monitoring and managing wireless LANs. It can support thousands of access points around an enterprise and carry out tasks including user tracking and security monitoring, according to Cisco.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Cisco Systems is targeting a so-called âtriple play of the moveâ strategy as part of its strategy to drive sales to service providers.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com) announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Protego Networks, Inc. of Sunnyvale, CA, a provider of security monitoring and threat management appliances used
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Cisco Systems is adding to its arsenal of security devices by acquiring Protego Networks in a deal worth $65 million in cash.
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Brandeis University has successfully deployed Cisco's Application Control Engine module in its Cisco Catalyst 6500 Switch and is using it for Moodle, an open-source program for creating online learning communities.
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Acquisition is expected to help Cisco Systems reinforce its network management offerings.
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By Hochmuth, Phil  New stackables support Cisco's IOS Software Activation feature  Cisco last week juiced up its Catalyst switch line with gear that boosts Power-over-Ethernet support, backup power and failover, and 10G Ethernet connectivity at the LAN edge.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems will begin offering IronPort's security filtering tools to its firewall customers after the networking giant's acquisition of the company closes on June 25. On tour to evangelize the benefits of the buyout to media, analysts and customers, top Cisco security executives and IronPort Chief Executive Scott Weiss said that the combined company will move quickly to create a software upgrade package that will provide content filtering functionality and behavioral reputation intelligence into the networking market leader's 2.5 million existing firewall systems. Once the deal closes on Monday, Weiss will assume a role as a senior security marketing executive with Cisco, he said. The for-pay security add-on derived from IronPort, which has maintained a San Bruno, Calif. headquarters, will allow customers to employ what the company has dubbed as "wide traffic inspection" at the firewall, arming users with more comprehensive network traffic analysis tools, the executives said. The content filtering package represents only the first of many opportunities borne of San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco's $830 million buyout of the firm, said Weiss and Mick Scully, vice president of product management at Cisco's Security Technology Group.Â  "The e-mail and Web filtering capabilities we bring into Cisco's self defending network vision will allow customers to do more granular filtering of traffic traveling across ports that have traditionally been left open by firewalls," Weiss said. "Today, most threats are coming into the network as links embedded in e-mail messages; putting this type of intelligence at the firewall will increase its efficacy in stopping those attacks." Through blending the malware-distribution data gathered by IronPort's SenderBase IP address reputation service into Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls, the devices will become more dynamic security filtering gateways that can detect a far greater number of potential attacks before they enter the network, the companies claim. "As Cisco takes what it has been doing at the network layer and adds content awareness, customers will be provided with a whole new set of traffic monitoring abilities," said Scully. "This is a new business model for us, but we believe we can take advantage of the fact that content filtering has traditionally been a highly-fragmented market." Scully estimates that the firewall market currently represents a roughly $5 billion annual sales opportunity. By integrating content filtering, which Cisco projects as a $2 billion per-year market that is growing at 30 percent per year, the executive said that the massive networking and security firm expects its products to serve a $10 billion per-annum segment sometime around 2011. For its part, Weiss said that IronPort is expecting to report growth of 70 percent for its current fiscal year, pushing its revenues over $200 million. After moving to integrate the filtering specialists' tools into its firewall business, Scully said that Cisco would begin adding IronPort's technologies into its Integrated Services Router (ISR) products. "We'll be integrating IronPort's content and e-mail filtering technologies into our switching and routing products over the next several years," said the colorful Cisco security executive. "This is a strategy that reaches beyond the current wave of Web 2.0 technologies and services oriented architecture technologies into the next decade and beyond as customers demand more integrated security features." Weiss said that another immediate benefit of the merger will be an opportunity for Cisco to expand its abilities to provide data leakage prevention (DLP) protection at the network gateway. "We'll be looking to leverage the footprint of firewall and switches to better inform customers about many different aspects of security," he said. "Anything we can add to what Cisco is already doing has a network effect, and there will be a lot of opportunities for us to help companies monitor for malware and even look into issues such as data leakage prevention." At least one industry analyst said that the IronPort acquisition dovetails nicely with emerging customer demands to look at patterns in IP traffic to eliminate malware attacks such as botnet programs -- without having a negative impact on their overall network performance. "When you look at reputation services, if you know who the people are who are sending out spam or malware, there's a big opportunity to filter-out a lot of unwanted content at the gateway," said Andrew Jaquith, analyst with Boston-based research firm Yankee Group. "To do that you must have visibility into the actual flow of data, and that's what Cisco and IronPort should be able to provide." Selling additional features and services to existing customers is a sensible place for the two companies to begin their joint efforts, but their new products will need to prove their efficacy at stopping threats such as botnets which remain problematic for many large enterprises today, to gain wide acceptance quickly, the analyst said. "If you know that certain IP ranges are harboring botnets, or see something within the company network trying to communicate with those addresses, you have a pretty good clue that you've got a problem," he said. "That's one of the best potential uses for tying-in visibility into external reputations and correlating that with things going on inside the network." Jaquith believes that IronPort's technology will find its way into many of Cisco's routing and switching products over the next several years, and he cited the ability to leverage reputation-oriented information about what types of Web sites endpoint devices have visited in Cisco's network access control (NAC) technologies as another potential benefit of the merger. "Cisco really wants to be thought of as a security player, and for them to do that, it means they needed to move up the stack a couple of layers and start looking at e-mail and layer seven type-applications, they really needed to play in that space," the analyst said. "It's a mature market, and Cisco picked a strong company to help plant its security flag a little deeper."
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WLAN security company AirDefense disclosed the findings of its four-day scan of New York City retailers' wireless nets. The results: Not good.
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Cisco Systems plans to offer a tool to help small and medium-size businesses use Microsoft CRM software in combination with a Cisco IP communication system.
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The network is the sting A GPS tracking sting has led to accusations that a reseller defrauded Cisco of millions of dollars in networking gear by fiddling its hardware maintainance program on a grand scale.â¦