Cisco today announced that it has beefed up its 880 Series Integrated Services Router by adding support for 3G. The new feature is called 3G Mobility and Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) -- a mouthful that means the 880 can now failover to a 3G wireless WAN connection if it has access to one.

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Cisco continues to combine technology and sports for a winning public relations onslaught. During a press conference held over TelePresence on Friday, NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson declared his love for Cisco's videoconferencing technology, which he said will save his company, the Magic Johnson Foundation, "millions of dollars and millions of man hours" over time.

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A researcher says product tests indicate that adding security functions into your Cisco network can kill network performance. NSS Labs will publish its findings about firewalls, IPS and UTM early next year, but NSS Labs CEO Vik Phatak says there are clearly performance drawbacks to using the Cisco security functions in routers and switches.

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Cisco and Second Life -- what a happy pair. Shashi Kiran writes in his Cisco blog that Second Life events have exceeded all expectations of success.

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Good news! Wendell Odom has returned to Cisco Subnet after taking a four month break from his blog to work on other commitments. True to form, his insightful blog has already generating an interesting discussion about how to balance competing needs for your time while not getting side tracked from your goals (like finishing a certification).

Check out Wendells' return post, "Getting Certified Vs. Life's Other Priorities."

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Cisco CEO John Chambers promised at the annual shareholders meeting today that Cisco would one day pay a dividend but the timeline for doing so was more than a little vague. According to Dow Jones, Chambers's exact words were:

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Does Cisco want to be a cloud-based service provider like Amazon and its EC2 service, or a cloud-infrastructure supplier?

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It's not really news that employees can be the downfall of any security plan, but this three-part study commissioned by Cisco does point out a few new interesting tidbits. For instance, enterprise IT officials think employees are the biggest threat because there are two ways they can cause security breaches -- through malicious intent and through innocent mistakes.

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Talk about big screen sports entertainment! Cisco's plans to saturate Yankee Stadium with more than 1,000 high-def screens, which are not TVs but IPTV monitors. Not only will fans not miss a second, but they will also gain brand new services, similar to what digital video recorders did for live TV.

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What can sustain the flow of 20 Niagara Falls per second if each drop of water was a bit? What can save  the carbon equivalent of 88 tons of coal, 164 transpacific passenger flights or 16 around-the-world car trips per year? What is designed to handle the download of 125 billion DVD movies each month?

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Welcome to the CCIE Buzz blog, written by CCIE candidates, CCIE Pursuit, CCIE Talk and CCIE Journey. You may know them through their own blogs; now you can read them on Network World in one single blog (and you can go to their their own respective blogs to read more of their CCIE tips, tricks and musings).

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This week's sneak peek of a Cisco Press book is Cisco Firewall Video Mentor (Video Learning) by Dave Hucaby.

Here's the Cisco Press blurb:

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Cisco's sport division is getting its showcase next week. Cisco is teaming up with Magic Johnson on Nov. 14 to promote TelePresence, while on Nov. 11, Cisco CEO John Chambers, along with a "marquee sports franchise" will be in Manhattan to announce a new product for "venue and stadium operators that will help deliver the next generation sporting fan experience," according to the media invite. Nov.

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Cisco has streamlined how multinational customers deal with its resellers. The irony is that the new method has made it easier for customers to do business but appears to be somewhat complicated for resellers.

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We have winners! Please congratulate the winners of Cisco Subnet's October giveaways. We have 15 winners of the book iExec Enterprise Essentials Companion Guide, published by Cisco Press, and also one lucky winner of a $300 BP gas card, courtesy of Skyline-ATS.

Before we announce the winners, let's recap on the trivia questions.

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Cisco plans to introduce a hiring freeze and halt business travel for employees in a bid to reduce expenses, reports Bloomberg. It's not clear how long the freeze would last.

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The Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard doesn't only affect retailers, healthcare providers are also required to comply. Guest host Jamey Heary is joined by Eddie Mize, chief security officer of a major healthcare provider in Denver, Colo., to discuss how the credit-card handling standard affects healthcare providers and what it takes for health centers to become compliant. (10:12)

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"Not bad under the circumstances," was one analyst's comment on Cisco's Q1 results, which were released Wednesday. The company slightly beat Wall Street's expectation by reporting an 8% increase in revenue to $10.3 billion. Non-GAAP net income was $2.5 billion, or 42 cents a share, bettering analyst's expectation of 39 cents a share.

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We're waiting with bated breath for tomorrow's announcements. Not only will we find out who our new president will be but we will also know how well (or not ) Cisco did during its first fiscal quarter. And if the nation does wake up to discover that John McCain is our new president we'll be holding some more breath as we wait to discover whether McCain does pick Cisco CEO John Chambers for the treasury secretary job.

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Cisco increased its equity stake in VMware to the tune of $13.3 million. The 500 shares of VMware Class A common stock are being purchased from Intel, and will help to increase Cisco's equity share of VMware to 1.7%.  Cisco CEO John Chambers in June said Cisco was not interesting in owning VMware, which is 84% owned by EMC.

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