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• Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains

  By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09

  June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.

• Cisco: Australia broadband speeds ahead of global average by 2016

  By Spandas Lui | 30 May, 2012 16:02

  Australia’s broadband speeds may currently be below the global average but the tide will turn come 2016, according to Cisco.

• R.I.P. Cisco Cius - another tablet bites the dust

  By Tony Bradley | 25 May, 2012 18:58

  Cisco is pulling the plug on its Cius tablet. Despite the fact that the Cius never really went head to head with more consumer-centric tablets, the Cisco device is nevertheless the latest victim of the iPad's dominance.

• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• Mobile devices to change workplace and telco attitudes: Cisco

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 May, 2012 22:15

  The growth of mobile devices is changing the workplace landscape and the way employees interact with media, Cisco A/NZ chief technology officer, Kevin Bloch, said.

• Ian Ross leaves Cisco for Logicalis

  By Nermin Bajric | 18 May, 2012 16:39

  Former Cisco head of businesss and market innovation, Ian Ross, has left the networking vendor to join IT solutions and managed services provider, Logicalis, as strategic solutions director.

• CIO challenge with BYOD: Don't fall down the rabbit hole

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 May, 2012 07:56

  When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head."

• Ethernet switching gets specialized

  By Jim Duffy | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer deployments.

• Cisco mobility bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop

  By John Cox | 17 May, 2012 22:21

  Cisco announced yesterday three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility.

• HP: SDNs are key to Cloud deployment

  By Jim Duffy | 10 May, 2012 05:42

  LAS VEGAS: Software-defined networks (SDN) have the capability to provision applications in minutes instead of months, and speed deployment into the cloud, according to the head of HP Networking.

• Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core

  By Jim Duffy | 07 May, 2012 20:33

  Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.

• Juniper joins Cisco, Enterasys in BYOD management fray

  By Jim Duffy | 04 May, 2012 01:28

  Juniper this week unveiled new and enhanced products designed to secure mobile device access to enterprise networks.

• Interop puts software-defined networking in limelight

  By Brandon Butler | 03 May, 2012 07:32

  The potential game-changing technology that surrounds software-defined networking (SDN) will be center stage at Interop next week with high-profile product introductions, technology demos and information sessions all set to roll.

• Arista teams with VMware, Big Switch, Nebula for SDNs

  By Jim Duffy | 03 May, 2012 05:32

  Data center switch vendor Arista Networks next week will demonstrate how to build a software-defined cloud network using its switches, and controllers from partners VMware, Big Switch and Nebula.

• Gen-i expands Australian operations

  By Mike Gee | 02 May, 2012 11:12

  Integration and services specialist, Gen-i, will expand its client support operations within Australia.