Networking

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  CenturyLink Lands $1.6 Billion Contract To Power Interior Dept With Next-Gen Network Services

  by Gina Narcisi

  CenturyLink, with the help of Cisco, will modernize the U.S. Department of Interior's IT infrastructure with secure, next-generation network and cloud services.

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  Fate Of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Hangs In Balance As Trial Ends

  by Gina Narcisi

  U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero will come to a decision ‘as soon as possible’ on the Sprint/T-Mobile $26.5 billion mega-merger.

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  LogicMonitor Snaps Up AIOps Firm Unomaly To Make Infrastructure Visibility More 'Holistic'

  by Gina Narcisi

  Now combined, LogicMonitor and Unomaly's technologies will increase infrastructure visibility and expand AI opportunities for the channel and end customers.

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  Aruba SD-Branch Gets Security Injection As Vendor Takes Aim At Cisco With Cellular Connectivity Option

  by Gina Narcisi

  Aruba is enhancing security across the branch and into the public cloud. The vendor also unveiled a brand-new gateway that lets business use cellular connectivity in response to Cisco's recently-announced cellular gateway.

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  Silver Peak Hires Former Ruckus President To Lead Global Field Operations

  by Gina Narcisi

  Ian Whiting, Ruckus Networks' former president, has landed at Silver Peak as the SD-WAN provider's new president of global field operations.

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  Avaya To End Powered By Avaya IP Office Sales As Firm Focuses On Cloud UC

  by Gina Narcisi

  'We want to have one primary, true UCaaS offering in the market,' Avaya's SVP of business transformation Dennis Kozak tells CRN.

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  Cisco Urges Patching Critical Nexus Switch Vulnerabilities

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  Remote attackers can exploit three flaws in older versions of the Cisco Data Center Network Manager that controls NX-OS-based data center infrastructure to bypass proper authentication. No malicious attacks have been seen yet.

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  Versa Networks Co-Founder: Versa Titan Offering Has Taken On A Life Of Its Own

  by Gina Narcisi

  Versa Networks' Titan service for SMB customers is a hit with partners and the SD-WAN specialist wants to 'at least double' its reseller community in 2020, Versa co-founder Kumar Mehta tells CRN.

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  CenturyLink Expands Channel Management Team With Solution Provider Superstars

  by Gina Narcisi

  Three of CenturyLink's four new national channel managers hail from solution provider organizations. CenturyLink also promoted one of its channel executives to sales director.

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  LogicMonitor Crowns Former BMC Exec As New Channel Chief

  by Gina Narcisi

  IT veteran Sanjay Gupta is taking the reins of LogicMonitor's channel as the company embraces partners building businesses around software as a service.

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  Cisco Intros Cisco Silicon One: New ASIC Play Beyond The Network Into The Cloud

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  Cisco Silicon One, a new Cisco-designed ASIC for high-performance networking, is Cisco's first foray into making its silicon available to third-party companies including cloud providers, thereby helping Cisco become a key part of cloud infrastructures.

• Aruba Networks Launches Aruba Edge Cert, Revamps Certification Policy For Partners

  by Gina Narcisi

  ‘The partners we talk to are expressing that they need to equip their workers with new skills. That's where our certifications and educational programs come in,’ says Aruba's VP of Global Sales Advocacy Paul Curto.

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  Cisco Down Two Execs As One Reportedly Jumps To John Chambers-Backed Pensando

  by Gina Narcisi

  Cisco's current senior vice president of customer transformation and former CIO Guillermo Diaz Jr. is leaving the company in February and Frank Palumbo, senior vice president of global data center sales, is also leaving, reportedly for Pensando Systems.

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  AWS, Cisco ‘Easing Pain Into The Cloud' With AWS Outposts Support, SD-WAN Tie-Ins

  by Gina Narcisi

  At AWS re:Invent 2019, Cisco announced deeper tie-ins between Cisco ACI and Outposts, Cisco SD-WAN and AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Security Group with Cisco's Cloud Defense Orchestrator.

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  AWS, Verizon Team To Put AWS Services On The Edge Of The 5G Network

  by Gina Narcisi

  Amazon Web Services and Verizon took to re:Invent to unveil Wavelength, a service that puts AWS services at the edge of the 5G network.