Security and voice features top enhancements aimed at fending off market grab from rivals; Juniper at the gates. Next week, Cisco rival Juniper Networks plans to launch a line of routers targeting the corporate market, according to sources close to the company. The J-series routers, which have been anticipated for the last few months, will take on some of Cisco's hottest-selling products, including its 1700, 2600 and 3700 branch office routers. Cisco is fighting back with two next-generation IP (Internet Protocol) routers designed for the enterprise, sources familiar with the products said.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, A flaw in the operating system for Cisco Systems' Catalyst switches could be used to shut down and reset the hardware, the network device maker says, A flaw in the operating system for Cisco Systems' Catalyst switches could be used to shut down and reset the hardware, the network device maker said in an advisory released Wednesday, The lets surf ii iphone case flaw affects the way the CatOS handles Telnet, HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and SSH (secure shell) sessions, the advisory said..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Nokia's attempt to buy a majority of Symbian wins the approval of German regulators. Nokia said Wednesday that its attempt to buy a majority of Symbian, the cell phone software joint venture competing with Microsoft, has been approved by a German competition authority, thus completing a "formal clearance process." Competition regulators in Finland and Austria previously gave a nod of approval for Symbian smart phone operating system creator to sell its 31 percent Symbian stake to Nokia. According to Nokia, the Federal Cartel Office said the "transaction would not restrict effective competition on the wireless OS market." The office is an independent German authority that protects competition.

Cisco just started shipping the latest version of its IP core router, the Gigabit Switch Router, or GSR 12800, last quarter, But doesn't the introduction of the CRS-1 make the GSR obsolete? No, not really, There is still a need for different products in our portfolio, I think that if you make the bandwidth available, carriers will find applications to use it, Somebody building a network completely from scratch may want the latest and greatest technology, But there are a lot of customers with $40 million to $50 million investment in GSR technology, The GSR 12800 offers them an opportunity lets surf ii iphone case to upgrade and quadruple performance..

What is the strategy for the new operating software Cisco has developed? Will it be extended to the rest of Cisco's routers? Right now, we are announcing IOS XR just on the CRS-1. We are considering expanding the offering on other products. We aren't making any announcements right now, but we are expecting to leverage it on different product lines, such as the GSR. Will it be used in any enterprise products?We don't have plans to use the software on enterprise-specific products. There are different requirements for support in the enterprise, but some aspects of the IOS XR software could be used in the enterprise. So we will likely move some desirable characteristics of the software into some of these products. But these products don't necessarily need the fine-grain modularity of IOS XR.