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• How to lock down your wireless network

  If you operate a wireless network for your home or business, it's important to ward it against opportunistic hackers seeking to steal your data or hijack your Wi-Fi for their own nefarious purposes. We spoke to Steven Andrés, CTO of security consulting firm Special Ops Security, to learn about the best ways to lock down your Wi-Fi. To get started, you'll need to log in to your router's administrative console by typing the router's IP address into your Web browser's address bar. Most routers use a common address like 192.168.1.1, though alternatives like 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.2.1 are also common. Check the manual that came with your router to determine the correct IP address; if you've lost your manual, you can usually find the appropriate IP address on the manufacturer's website.

• Brocade takes on Cisco in the campus

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102811-brocade-sale-252524.html">Brocade Networks</a> this week has unveiled switches for the enterprise campus designed to help users to affordably scale their networks.

• Telefónica to improve home networks with Wi-Fi investment

  Telefónica has made an equity investment in Wi-Fi chip maker Quantenna Communications, whose technology it will use to deploy IPTV services in the home, the operator said on Monday.

• Juniper adds OpenFlow to its routers, switches

  Juniper Networks this week said it is making the source code of its OpenFlow application accessible to developers of applications for its Junos networking operating system software.

• Who's who in IPv6: the companies and people leading the way

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/ipv6.html">IPv6</a> is on the minds of every network professional these days, and rightly so. While some vendors and service providers are woefully behind, others are leading the charge. We asked well-known IPv6 expert Ed Horley to name these leaders. Horley is co-chairman of the California IPv6 Task Force, is involved in the North American IPv6 Task Force and earns his living as principal solutions architect at Groupware Technology in Campbell, Calif. He lists the thought leaders for IPv6 among network equipment providers and service providers including CPE devices, routers/switches, load balancers, address management, content delivery networks and more. Got an idea for an article? Contact Network World Community Editor Julie Bort, jbort@nww.com.

• A10 boosts application delivery controllers

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072911-a10-countersuit.html">A10 Networks</a> is upgrading its application delivery controllers (ADC) with three new hardware platforms it says are faster and more energy efficient.

• Cisco unveils routers, takes swipe at Juniper

  Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper.

• Cisco aims for a go-anywhere router

  Cisco Systems made its fortune selling routers for the cores of enterprise and service-provider networks, but now the company is sending its technology farther from those cozy confines than ever before.

• How we tested Cloud management services

  Abiquo: We installed their virtual appliance from ISO in two VMs on an ESXi server. On the first VM, we selected the Abiquo <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">Server</a>, Abiquo Remote Services, and Abiquo V2V Conversion Services for installation.

• HP extends Cisco switch trade-in program

  HP this week said it has expanded a trade-in program for customers looking to swap out Cisco switches for HP gear.

• Juniper's disappointing quarter not due to switching

  No one can blame enterprise switching for Juniper's disappointing second-quarter results. Sales of Juniper's EX switches were up 18% year-over-year, switching overall was up 33%, and enterprise sales were up 9% due to strength in enterprise switching and routing products.

• IETF mulls IPv6 for home networking

  The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections into homes.

• Alcatel leaps ahead with 400-gigabit routing chip

  Alcatel-Lucent is charting a course to the next generation of carrier routers with new silicon that is focused today on delivering services from the edge of a network but could also power a massive packet engine for the core.

• Tilgin launches home gateways for 1G bps broadband services

  Swedish broadband equipment maker Tilgin has launched Simba, a platform for home gateways that can handle gigabit speeds. The availability of cheaper components has made developing Simba possible, the company said on Monday.

• Wipro manufactures the products it designs for customers

  Indian outsourcers have been typically known to develop enterprise software or offer IT services. But India's third largest outsourcer, Wipro, is taking advantage of having once designed and manufactured its own PCs and servers, to design and manufacture hardware products for customers.