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Cisco subsidiary Linksys has introduced a new wireless router, tailored to the needs of home digital media content especially high-def video. WRT610N is a simultaneous dual-N band wireless router that operates in both the 5GHz and 2.4GHz spectrums. Users can connect entertainment-oriented devices, such as media center extenders, audio players or personal video recorders via the wider 5GHz band. The 5GHz spectrum is recommended for such high-def content because it provides more than seven times the number of non-overlapping wireless channels, which means clearer transmissions for big media files piped across the wireless network.
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On ZDNet.co.uk, Tom Espiner quotes networking-product resellers as saying that Cisco Systems Inc. is not taking enough action to stamp out the sale of counterfeit products on internet auction sites. Mike Sheldon, chief executive of reseller Network Hardware Resale, told ZDNet.co.uk that Cisco was unwilling to co-operate with resellers to investigate potentially counterfeit Cisco products being sold on auction sites such as eBay. Both Network Hardware Resale and the United Network Equipment Dealer Association (Uneda), a trade association of over 300 secondary-market network-equipment dealers, said they have contacted Cisco on a number of occasions over the past three years. Although Cisco confirmed that it had not been working in conjunction with Uneda, it said that it had been working with other organizations to tackle counterfeiting.
BT Global Services has chosen to deploy equipment produced by network equipment titan Cisco Systems Inc. BT is to deploy the new Cisco ASR 100 series aggregation services routers after being involved in the testing of the product prior to its launch in March of this year. The routers will be deployed in BT Global Services’ major finance and enterprise markets for critical managed service applications, such as highly secure encryption and virtual private networks (VPN).
Cisco Systems Inc. has stopped the sales of PIX (Private Internet Exchange) firewall appliance with effect from July 28, thus ending one of the longest and most successful lives of a gateway security product ever. The PIX was the first Network Address Translation device and had later evolved into a stateful firewall. Cisco said that they will continue to sell add-ons to the PIX series until next year and will support the product until 2013.