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Cisco Systems Inc. announced that its security appliances can crash while handling Jumbo Ethernet frames. Cisco has published a software patch designed to address a denial of service vulnerability in its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliances. Although IPS systems are designed to block common hacker attacks and exploits, a big in the devices meant that “kernel panic” leading to a crash might be induced when processing Jumbo Ethernet packets. The flaw only applies where Cisco IPS platforms have Gigabit network interfaces installed and where these are deployed in inline mode.
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Cisco Systems Inc. says its opportunity in the video segment is $10 billion over the next 3-5 years, not including network upgrades required to support video applications. While physical security alone is an $8 billion market, TelePresence virtual conferencing alone is accounting for Cisco’s biggest product ramp, according to Marthin DeBeer, senior vice president of Emerging Technologies. According to DeBeer, Cisco has 100 customers for its TelePresence virtual conference rooms, and each customer has equipped anywhere from 50 to 200 office rooms with the system.
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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.
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According to this article in Barron’s, Paul Wick, manager of the Seligman Communications and Information Fund, has made an interesting prediction about Cisco. According to Wick, Cisco is overdue to do a large deal – for example, going after EMC, the large corporate storage and software company. Barron’s predicts that this would be a deal in the mid-$40 billion range. From the article:

A big deal, yes, but one for which Cisco would get considerable value. EMC is a leader in enterprise storage; they also have assembled an impressive portfolio of software assets through a deliberate acquisition strategy, and now own Legato Systems (acquired in 2003), Documentum (another 2003 deal) and RSA Software (bought in 2006).

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