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Can OpenFlow break the hold of hardware on networking?
Can you program a network of multi-vendor switches and routers, all running different operating systems, command line interfaces and configuration routines, to work in concert when it comes to managing flows? The OpenFlow effort thinks you can. OpenFlow is an open source project borne of a six year research collaboration…
Tech-Savvy Occupy Protesters Use Cellphone Video, Social Networking To Publicize Police Abuse
George Orwell once wrote that if you want a vision of the future, “imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” Governments have suppressed citizen dissent for as long as there have been governments and citizens to dissent against them. But over the last decade, it has become…
Frederick man sentenced to 30 months for importing and selling fake computer networking equipment
Donald H. Cone, 48, of Frederick, Md., was sentenced in Alexandria, Va., to 30 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import and sell counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, according to a press release from the U.S. Justice Department. U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee also…
Homenet group to set standards for IPv6 in home networking
The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections into homes. “A collection of protocols needs to be agreed upon, so vendors of equipment used in home networks will have an interoperable suite…
LIGATT: The answer is D. Making a wireless network into a subnet helps isolate other hosts/parts of the network from the many dangers of networking
LIGATT: The answer is D. Making a wireless network into a subnet helps isolate other hosts/parts of the network from the many dangers of networking View full post on Twitter / LIGATT