Bi-weekly Computer Networking industry updates (13 – 26 August, 2012)

Welcome to another edition of bi-weekly computer networking industry updates. In this post, let us look at some important articles, blog posts and info published by vendors and industry associates over the last two weeks.

#1 Evolving Service Provider WAN architectures (By Brocade) – You can read why MPLS was the preferred technology for service providers routers, why there might be a super-core routing layer that might run a different protocol than other edge-routers, why there might be a separate ‘IP offload’ network for Internet traffic vs. enterprise VPN traffic, in this blog post from Brocade.

#2 Unified Access Layer for Wired & Wireless LAN (By Hp) – In this blog post, Hp explains what is universal access for wired and wireless LAN and why is it important, in a practical way.

#3 Amazon introduces Glacier for cloud-based archival storage (By Amazon) – Amazon has introduced a storage service (on the cloud, of course) that lets you store/archive a lot of information for a long time at relatively lower costs.  It’s more suitable for back-up data, which may not be accessed frequently because there are separate access charges. Read more about Amazon Glacier from here.

#4 Eight advantages of SDN (Software Defined Networking) (By Silver Peak) – In this blog post, Silver Peak gives eight reasons to love SDN’s.

#5 Dell clarifies about a recent post on Laptop maintenance (By Dell) – Dell got some negative PR about a few incidents connected with their laptop support. In this blog post, Dell clarifies about the same.

#6 Thermal PTZ Camera video footage (By Bosch) – In this video, you can see a video footage of man walking with his dog 900 feet away, using the Bosch MIT Series 612 Thermal PTZ Camera.

#7  Ten key Windows Server 2012 features (By CIO) – Read it from here.

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