Greg Ferro of etherealmind.com has a great new post in his blessay (blog essay?) series relating to Cisco’s gross profit margin. From the post: While I see the value in making good products, and choosing vendors that are in a good financial position, if Cisco is making a sixty five percent gross margin then I am starting to question [...]
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More Leaked Information on Cisco’s G2 ISR’s
October 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hardware, Network
Yesterday we brought you information on Cisco’s imminent release of new integrated services routers. Today more specific information has been leaked in the form of presentation slides brought to us by evilrouters.net. The presentation lists some interesting new features: Gigabit ethernet ports on more models (possibly all) including 3 on the 2911 and above SFP [...]
Cisco to Introduce Second Generation Integrated Services Routers
October 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hardware, Network
It has been five years since Cisco introduced the 18xx/28xx/38xx line of integrated services routers. Despite the lack of an official announcement Cisco has begun to leak details of the 19xx/29xx/39xx generation of devices. On October 12 Network World Unified Communications blogger Dennis Hartmann posted details on the new hardware. Hartmann did not cite any credible [...]
Untangle releases version 7.0
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Network, Software
Today Untangle announced availability of version 7.0 of it’s content filtering network gateway software. The new version of this Linux based software appliance primarily adds better more interactive reporting tools. Untangle announces availability of Untangle 7.0 [Untangle]
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Cisco introduces Linux based router for the SMB
September 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Network
Today Cisco announced several Linux based SA 500 Series Security Appliances. Targeted at business with fewer that 100 users, the the SA 500 line represents a departure from Cisco’s more expensive IOS and ASA platforms for small environments. The base SA 520 model offers a stateful packet inspection firewall, unified threat management, and IPsec VPN [...]
