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• OpenDaylight's delayed SDN now available

  OpenDaylight, the vendor-heavy consortium developing an open source SDN framework, has announced that its first software release is available for download.

• Cisco sees SDN, Internet of Things in its 2014 crystal ball

  Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and SDN-enabled platforms with killer applications for them.

• 10 things we learned -- or didn't -- from Cisco's Insieme launch

  Cisco's introduction of the Insieme Networks product line and strategy was the most anticipated networking announcement in almost two years. It represents Cisco's response to the software-defined networking trend pervading the industry, and threatening Cisco's dominance and profits. While not a watershed moment – Insieme didn't change Cisco's modus operandii, as explained below -- Insieme is nonetheless one of the most important events and product introductions in Cisco's history. Here are 10 things we learned or have yet to learn from the Insieme launch:

• Juniper unveils new fabric switch, architecture

  Juniper Networks this week unveiled a new top-of-rack data center access switch, as well as a new fabric architecture that features that switch along with the company's MX edge router and SRX security platforms.

• Dreamworld upgrades switches as network demand ramps

  Dreamworld has upgraded its network to handle an increasing number of connected machines in the theme park.

• How to more easily upgrade your network to 40/100G Ethernet

  Upgrading you network from 10G Ethernet to 40G and 100G is not as easy as swapping out switches and line cards.

• Cisco patches vulnerabilities in some security appliances, switches and routers

  Cisco Systems has released security patches for authentication bypass, command execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting products that use its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software, as well as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches and Cisco 7600 series routers.

• Cisco/Insieme ushering in hardware-defined networks

  Cisco is adamant that its upcoming Application Centric Infrastructure launch is not about SDNs.

• Chambers: Cisco waited too long to address SDNs

  Cisco waited too long to address the software-defined networking trend now sweeping the industry, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said this week at the Cisco Live conference.

• NT government renews NEC networking contracts

  The Northern Territory government has extended three networking contracts with NEC Australia for 12 months.

• Ethernet filters out porn, plus 9 other facts (?) we learned from Bob Metcalfe's Reddit Q&A

  Bob Metcalfe, who 40 years ago invented Ethernet along with David Boggs, spent two hours this week regaling Reddit users with his thoughts on everything from software-defined networking to Internet porn.

• 10 things you may not know about Ethernet

  Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology are reviewed here:

• What's next for Ethernet?

  Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco research.

• Netgear to target mid-market with future SDN capability

  While much of the hype for software-defined networking is focused on large-scale data center deployments, some companies are taking a different angle.

• Open Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact

  The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an open source SDN framework.