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The cold evidence of Cisco's hiring freeze

Cisco's total number of job listings plummeted 93% in the last week, according to Aaran Rakers, an analyst at Wachovia Capital Markets who tracks job listings at the networking giant. As reported by Tech Trader Daily, Rakers says that Cisco advertised 1,830 openings a week ago and today it is listing just 128 jobs. The number reached 2,678 jobs at the beginning of October, according to Rakers. During Cisco's Q1 earnings conference call earlier this month, Cisco CEO John Chambers revealed that the networking company would institute a hiring freeze and halt business travel for employees in a bid to reduce expenses.

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Would Cisco buy Riverbed? Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Fri, 11/21/2008

Cisco to make a takeover bid for Riverbed? Could that ever happen? Cisco Subnet blogger Larry Chaffin believes so. In his latest blog post, Larry also predicts that Nortel could be bought by either Juniper, AT&T or Qwest. Larry writes: "Riverbed is looking more and more like a takeover target, they have good numbers even in this down economy and the stock is down just because of the markets. This is a prime time for Chambers to take over his biggest pain right now other than Juniper and ProCurve."

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Cisco workers told to rein in holiday spending Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Fri, 11/21/2008

Cisco workers are urged to find ways to celebrate the holidays for free this year as bosses in the Cisco Develpment Organization have axed company-funded shindigs. Valleyway says it was sent an internal memo, which states that: "All CDO teams are encouraged to celebrate the holidays, but try to find creative ways that result in no cost to the company. There should be no Business Group, Technology Group or Business Unit-funded holiday parties." Workers are also "strongly encouraged" to take additional time off between Dec. 22 and Dec. 24 so that workers can "significantly contribute to your business unit cost savings and provides a well-deserved break for you," according to the memo that Valleywag has republished.

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Sneak peek of book 'SSL Remote Access VPNs' Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Thu, 11/20/2008

This week's sneak peek of a Cisco Press book chapter is an extract from SSL Remote Access VPNs (Network Security) by Qiang Huang and Jazib Frahim.

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Cisco injects cash into rival content security gateway maker Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Thu, 11/20/2008

Cisco was one of several investors that pumped $22 million into Finjan, a developer of competitive content security products. Cisco provides content security through its ASA 5500 Series appliances using technology from Trend Micro. Recent Infonetics Research figures put Cisco ahead of Symantec to lead the worldwide content security gateway appliance market in the second quarter of 2008. Finjan said its Secure Web Gateway product provides real-time content inspection of in- and outbound communications.

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A story in Light Reading today confirmed that the new Cisco ASR 9000 is using an off-the-shelf packet-processing chip, a chip that is a member of the Cisco silicon brand labeled QuantumFlow. Light Reading states that a Cisco spokeswoman confirmed that the ASR 9000 supports a member of the QuantumFlow family of forwarding engines. Other Light Reading sources said the "QuantumFlow" in question is the NP-3c, a Cisco-specific variation of the EZchip's NP-3 device ("So, they can sort of, with...

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When I logged into my sensornet this morning I excitingly saw the following info in my logs: -> PASS D3&hh* -> USER CC-5644 * 0 :IMP1 -> NICK [T11|USA|51932] PASS D3&hh* -> USER CC-5644 * 0 :IMP1 -> NICK [T11|USA|51932] USER CC-5644 * 0 :IMP1 -> NICK [T11|USA|51932] NICK [T11|USA|51932] JOIN ##tshuab l3a9 .getcdkeys Microsoft Windows Product ID CD Key: xxxxxxxxx Half Life (Blue Shift) Product CD Key: xxxxxxx [CDKEYS] Search Completed Half Life! ...how did that get...

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Top 7 James Bond 007 Techno Gadgets, some are real today by Jamey Heary
The new James Bond movie releases next week and I can’t wait. The best part of watching a 007 flick is seeing all the new gadgets that Q has cooked up for Bond to use. Over the years their have been some really great ones going all the way back to the Sean Connery era in the 1960’s. Even though the new bond movies don’t include the same amount of cool 007 gadgetry, I thought it would be fun to do a blog on 7 of my personal favorites from the Bond series anyway. When these gadgets were... 5

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Ok, the Economy is Bad, Some Cost Savings Tips by Michael Morris
I wrote a blog back in August about how the economy wasn't that bad and good jobs were available. Well, I'm going to have to revise that comment....the economy is bad and will probably get worse. As everyone knows, in September and October we saw the banking and credit crisis, a 3,000 point drop in the Dow, and the beginning of layoffs, even in IT. Companies have frozen budgets, stopped hiring, and initiated massive cost savings projects. So, here are some cost savings tips and projects...

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Where to from here? Probably OSPF… by Wendell Odom
Well, being away from a while presents me with the dilemma of trying to decide where to go from here for the next few weeks and months. I could ramble on whatever's on my mind that day, changing... 5

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Adventures in IPv6 Web Hosting by Jeff Doyle
My last post talked about the need for enterprise network operators, even if they think they will not need IPv6 for their internal networks in the foreseeable future, to take into account their...

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Predictions for the next few months, Riverbed and Nortel get purchased plus more by Larry Chaffin
Predictions for the next few months, Riverbed and Nortel get purchased plus moreYes, I said it and this is what I am thinking. Juniper is looking at Nortel as a buy, buy, buy (as Kramer would put... 2

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Cisco warns of ASA, PIX vulnerabilities; acknowledges DoS vulnerablities in TCP Cisco is warning of multiple security holes in its ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances and Cisco PIX Security Appliances. It also issued a security response that acknowledges multiple vulnerabilities involving the manipulation of TCP state table information. The ASA and PIX vulne