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• Cisco opens routers to software developers

  Cisco is opening up two pieces of its branch office gear to application developers in an effort to reduce the amount of equipment businesses have to place and manage in small business locations.

• Cisco touts IP-based emergency systems

  During a major emergency, the first 72 hours are the most critical time for communications, says Jeff Critser, Cisco’s senior advisor for homeland security and a keynote speaker at a recent emergency management conference in Wellington.

• Cisco overhauls edge routers after 5 years

  Cisco has overhauled its edge router line with a new platform designed to provide better support for converged applications between corporate headquarters and branch offices.

• Cisco seeks to shake up IT shops with Nexus release

  As storage and servers start to merge into unified, virtualised systems, Cisco Systems wants to do the same thing with the networks that connect them.

• Cisco looks beyond routers in power use plan

  Cisco Systems wants to turn the enterprise data network into an electricity meter.

• District Council disregards advice to rebuild network

  When Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) sought to upgrade its networking infrastructure, it disregarded the advice of a third-party supplier, and claims to have found a much cheaper and better alternative.

• Alleged Cisco hacker convicted in Sweden

  A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorised access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code.

• WiMax buy for Cisco

  Cisco Systems has agreed to buy Navini Networks, a developer of WiMax broadband wireless access systems.

• Vendors chart goals at MIT conference

  Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.

• Wireless buy for Cisco

  Cisco Systems is to buy Cognio, a maker of software for wireless network spectrum analysis and management.

• Cisco channels its energy into skills shortage

  Cisco Systems has declared the IT worker shortage to be its number one prohibitor to growth. Cisco's goal of becoming a US$50 billion (NZ$67 billion) company by 2010 will be unattainable if the skills shortage is not addressed. The company has developed a pilot programme starting in the US market under the guidance of Celia Harper-Guerra, who will hold the title of senior director of worldwide channels. Harper-Guerra is a former human resources executive with 15 years' experience at Cisco.

• New ANZ Cisco head shakes up management

  New Cisco Systems Australia and New Zealand managing director Les Williamson has jumped from the frying pan and is nearly 50 days into the fire.

• Cisco and VMware demo datacentre integration

  Cisco Systems has expanded its Data Center 3.0 vision by announcing the integration of its VFrame DC datacentre virtualisation appliance with VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure.

• Cisco consumer moves afoot, leaders suggest

  Cisco Systems executives hinted at major changes in the company’s consumer strategy this month even as they voiced optimism about networking and the world economy.

• Cisco to take stake in VMware

  Cisco Systems plans to acquire a 1.6% equity stake in virtualisation software company VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month.