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Cisco this week announced plans to fully acquire a switch start-up it funded and also unveiled the newest member of its data center switching line, developed by Cisco and that start-up.

Network managers could miss out on significant energy and infrastructure savings by not planning for convergence beyond data, voice and video, a network supplier has claimed.

Makers of 10G Ethernet products came away from a recent University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab plug fest with results they think will boost acceptance of the technology in corporate networks.

Unless you've pulled a Rip Van Winkle under the router racks, you've probably noticed that "virtualization" is one of the biggest buzzwords around these days. Seems like everything's gone virtual: servers, storage, security, communications, the workforce (not to mention reality).

As our network continues to grow, we are trying have standards as to reserving certain port numbers for access points, certain ones for printers, etc. Another challenge is to prevent ports from being used without proper authorization. Just to make things really interesting, a previous administrator bought some Cisco switches used and never got any maintenance agreements on them, so I am not allowed to replace them until a significant of ports have gone bad. Is there a way that all of these ideas can be accommodated into one manageable solution? -- Via the Internet

IBM will license its technology for cooling servers with water instead of air to a Chicago-area company.

A Victorian initiative aimed at attracting secondary school leavers to careers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is inviting students to a series of interactive sessions with recent graduates and industry figures.

Cisco Systems is working with the U.K. government on a pilot program to train prison inmates in information and communications technology (ICT) skills.

Appointments at Krone, Compaq, RequestDSL and the ABA plus comings and goings at EftNet

The home networking market has been touted by many as one of the last frontiers for integrators to get into, and while everyone has heard of the Internet fridge and the smart toaster, Cisco has teamed up with a host of other vendors to unveil its first fully networked house.