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Wireline networking groups merge to form HomeGrid Forum

Wi-Fi is fine for ease of use and category 6 Ethernet cable is great for when you need real speed, but sometimes you just want to network a building without Wi-Fi’s perpetual security concerns and...

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WiSee: Gesture recognition tech is closer than you might think

Thanks to technologies like Microsoft’s Kinect, we’re getting closer than ever before to being able to interact with our computers by simply waving our hands in the air. But what if you want to wave my...

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Six ways to protect yourself from the NSA and other eavesdroppers

Worried sick about the NSA, or someone else, looking over your shoulder? Well, you can do things that will make it harder for someone to eavesdrop on you. That’s the good news. The bad news is that all...

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Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know

Gigabit Wi-Fi, 802.11ac, is officially here, but what does that really mean? Here’s my list of the five things you need to know before you invest in this new wireless technology. 1) 802.11ac is not...

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OpenDaylight Software-Defined Networking Codebase coming together

The OpenDaylight Project, the Linux Foundation-led industry-supported open source framework to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is coming together more quickly than many people expected. On...

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OpenDaylight SDN opens the curtains on its initial release

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is continuing its move from hype to reality. One big step in that direction is the OpenDaylight Project. The community-led and industry-supported open-source SDN is...

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Juniper throws its hat into the open-source SDN ring

Software Defined Network (SDN) will revolutionize datacenter and cloud networking — if everyone can agree on how to deploy it. Alcatel-Lucent has Nuage; Cisco and a host of other companies have the...

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Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017

According to networking giant Cisco, it’s a cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud world as cloud-based network traffic explodes. Besides data center/cloud network growing at a remarkable rate, Cisco also foresees...

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OpenDaylight: Open Source Programming to the Software-Defined Network

If you follow networking vendors, you know they get along with one another about as well as a dog whose tail has just been pulled and a cat who’s had a bucket of water dumped on him. That’s why it was...

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BitTorrent Sync 2.0: For all your business file-sharing needs

There are endless ways to share files between devices. Some of them are complex, ftp and Network File System (NFS). Some, such as Apple Bonjour and Windows Homegroup, work with only a few operating...

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New and improved Samba file server released

Do you have a network-attached storage (NAS) device holding your accounts payable, document archives, or just your baby photos? If so, you’re running Samba, the open-source file and print server. Now,...

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WiSee: Gesture recognition tech is closer than you might think

Thanks to technologies like Microsoft’s Kinect, we’re getting closer than ever before to being able to interact with our computers by simply waving our hands in the air. But what if you want to wave my...

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Six ways to protect yourself from the NSA and other eavesdroppers

Worried sick about the NSA, or someone else, looking over your shoulder? Well, you can do things that will make it harder for someone to eavesdrop on you. That’s the good news. The bad news is that all...

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Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know

Gigabit Wi-Fi, 802.11ac, is officially here, but what does that really mean? Here’s my list of the five things you need to know before you invest in this new wireless technology. 1) 802.11ac is not...

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OpenDaylight Software-Defined Networking Codebase coming together

The OpenDaylight Project, the Linux Foundation-led industry-supported open source framework to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is coming together more quickly than many people expected. On...

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OpenDaylight SDN opens the curtains on its initial release

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is continuing its move from hype to reality. One big step in that direction is the OpenDaylight Project. The community-led and industry-supported open-source SDN is...

View Article

Juniper throws its hat into the open-source SDN ring

Software Defined Network (SDN) will revolutionize datacenter and cloud networking — if everyone can agree on how to deploy it. Alcatel-Lucent has Nuage; Cisco and a host of other companies have the...

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Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017

According to networking giant Cisco, it’s a cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud world as cloud-based network traffic explodes. Besides data center/cloud network growing at a remarkable rate, Cisco also foresees...

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Tailscale launches Wireguard-secured mesh network

Once upon a time, besides the star-endpoint network model, many small networks used a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. You may recall it from such network operating systems as LANtastic and Windows for...

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Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security

If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even...

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