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Universal Network Cable

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If you’re in IT you’ve probably uttered the phrase “Where’s the crossover cable?” a few times or perhaps you’ve grabbed a cable and visited the datacenter which takes 20 minutes to get into due to the security constraints only to realize you grabbed the crossover cable instead of the straight-through cable.

The Universal Network Cable provides 5 cable types in one connector including the elusive crossover, standard straight-through, Cisco ‘this is how I Roll’, tactful T1 and the loopy ATM Loopback cable. You simply need to select the proper cable and you’re golden! Even someone that still believe Al Gore created the Internet can use the Universal Network Cable.

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Price: $29.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Cisco Valet Wireless Router simplifies home wireless networking setup

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Cisco’s new line of wireless routers, Valet and Valet Plus, aim to simplify wireless networking and connectivity for home users.

How? Plug in the Valet wireless router, then plug in the accompanying USB stick (called the Easy Setup Key) into your laptop and/or desktop. The Easy Setup Key runs you through a few screens and configures your wireless for you.

Valet offers you 802.11n wireless (as well as b and g), parental controls, guest access for your friends and family, along with some 100Mbps ports on the router itself.

The Valet Plus has Gigabit (1000Mbps) ports for faster wired networking.

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Price: Valet: $99.99, Valet Plus: $129.99
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Internet traffic to reach 2/3 Zettabyte by 2013?

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Cisco predicts that global Internet IP traffic will get to 2/3 of a trillion GB (a trillion GB is a zettabyte) per year by 2013. They also predict that video will constitute 90% of this traffic, which is not surprising.

Consider that a Google insider revealed that YouTube streams about 1.2 billion videos per day. Ahh, remember the good old days when getting a million hits to your website per month was considered ‘big traffic’? Now think a billion per day and it’s streaming video!

via Techcrunch

DJIA may kick out Citigroup and GM; add Google, Cisco?

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This rumor may hold a water: The Dow Jones Industrial Average may toss out General Motors and Citigroup due to their lackluster performance and low stock prices. But who to replace them with? The second part of the speculation is that it could be Google, Cisco and/or Apple.

I’m not so sure about Apple really being Dow worthy quite yet, but the important point in this is that still more tech companies are being tapped to represent the direction of industry in the US, and in a down economy to boot.

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