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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). Fun fact: Co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Womens Network and is a member of the Girls in Tech Board of Directors.

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IDG Contributor Network: Will networks and security converge in 2017?

Network World

Zeus Kerravala looked into his crystal bowl for the networking space, and Taylor Armeriding did the same for security. We went rummaging through our fortune cookies and came up with this Yoda-like one for 2017: Security shall networking become. Could networking replace security (or vice versa) in 2017?

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

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Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. To date however, there hasn’t been dedicated network fabric technology for connecting PCIe 6 connections. Scorpio PCIe 6.0 The biggest use case is NIC-to-GPU data ingest,” Danesh said.

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Cisco warns of attacks on network routers, firewalls

Network World

Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group issued a warning today about an uptick in highly sophisticated attacks on network infrastructure including routers and firewalls. That exploit targeted an SNMP vulnerability in Cisco routers that the vendor patched in 2017. To read this article in full, please click here

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Hot products at VMworld 2017

Network World

VMworld 2017 Image by Thinkstock/VMware VMworld 2017 is underway in Las Vegas, where IT pros are converging to learn about the latest in enterprise cloud, virtualization, security, and software-defined data center technologies. Here are some of the product highlights on display at the show.

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IDG Contributor Network: SDN and a life beyond the death of the internet

Network World

Compare that to the logistical, financial and implementation challenges of installing an alternative private network, and it’s clear why enterprises have been pretty content with the internet for their entire digital lives. But, it’s 2017. The reason why is pretty simple: it’s cost-efficient, it’s easy to use and it’s already there.

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Wi-Fi HaLow: Hands on with AsiaRF’s IoT network gateway

Network World

The HaLow standard was approved in September 2016 and published in May 2017. AsiaRF Wi-Fi HaLow IoT network gateway AsiaRF’s dual-band Wi-Fi mesh gateway (ARFHL-AP) is primarily designed for industrial IoT connectivity. The use of HaLow is transparent to the rest of the devices on the network.

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