Cisco boosted its IOS network operating system, integrating technology designed to spot malware activity in encrypted... Continue Reading This Article Enjoy this article as well as all of our content, including E-Guides, news, tips and more. traffic. The company has incorporated the capability in the version of IOS that runs on Catalyst 9000 switches and ASR and ISR routers. The integration makes it possible for companies using the hardware to subscribe to Cisco's Encrypted Traffic Analytics...

Zayo Group Holdings Inc., a bandwidth infrastructure provider in the U.S. and Europe, is offering SD-WAN as a managed or do-it-yourself product. The technology, launched this week, lets companies distribute network traffic across MPLS, broadband and Long Term Evolution connections. The product is an extension of Zayo's fiber-based IP/MPLS backbone offerings for enterprises. How SDN is Transforming WAN Operations: Free Handbook Access our handbook now to navigate the waters of SDN in the WAN,...

AT&T plans to introduce fifth-generation, or 5G, mobile services in a dozen markets by the end of the year, as it aims to become the first U.S. carrier to offer the high-speed wireless network. The rollout of the AT&T 5G services was sped up by the recent completion of new standards, the company said. In December, international wireless standards body 3GPP finished the new radio specifications that define radio access to the network. The completed standards provide the specs device and...

Samsung has joined Cisco, Google and Microsoft in a digital whiteboard market that has attracted the interest, but not yet the wallets, of companies. The Korean tech giant launched its Flip interactive display this week at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas. Scheduled for release this month, the Samsung Flip board will sell for $2,699, which is considerably less than competing products from the major vendors but higher than technology offered by smaller manufacturers. The Flip has a...

The recently discovered security threat in CPUs from nearly a dozen manufacturers poses a low risk to corporate networking gear, so operators have time to test vendors' patches thoroughly. That's the take of security experts contacted by SearchNetworking following the discovery last week of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that affect Intel, AMD and ARM chips. In response, Cisco and Juniper Networks have released patches rated medium and low risk, respectively, for a variety of...