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• Cisco uses LISP to articulate programmability

  Network virtualization is one of the hotter trends in the industry today, and when Cisco speaks to it you hear a distinct LISP.

• Juniper CEO Johnson talks software, the company's recent challenges and key future directions

  Juniper Networks had a challenging 2012 as new product cycles were slow to take hold and global economic conditions took a toll on sales. The company also undertook a restructuring that saw 500 positions cut and the departure of four executive vice presidents. As the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company looks to re-energize its business, particularly with an eye towards enterprises and data centers, CEO Kevin Johnson shared his lessons learned in leading Juniper since 2008, as well as what's ahead for the company in a discussion with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Johnson also shared his thoughts on the hot topic of software-defined networks (SDN), Juniper's role in enabling cloud and competing against the industry's 800-pound gorilla, Cisco.

• Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software and services company

  Cisco, the quintessential IT hardware maker, wants you to start thinking about it as software and services company.

• 5 things Juniper must do to reignite growth

  Juniper Networks needs better marketing and execution, among other things, to turn its fortunes around.

• Juniper Networks removes another top exec

  A management shake-up at Juniper Networks continues, as Stefan Dyckerhoff has been replaced as executive vice president of Juniper’s Platform Systems Division by Rami Rahim, who currently leads the company’s edge and aggregation routing business unit.

• Testing shows IPv6 is becoming deployable in customer edge routers

  Network World is publishing this report in its entirety as a community service.

• Chambers: Cisco's Q1 solid, but access routers, Nexus 7000 lagging

  Despite a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111011-cisco-posts-small-revenue-252958.html">solid quarter</a> as evidence its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072011-cisco-job-cuts.html">turnaround plan</a> is working, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> still has more work to do to get where it wants to be.

• Juniper at the root of Internet outage?

  Juniper routers are reportedly behind an Internet outage that affected service providers and Web sites around the globe Monday morning.

• Linksys prevails in dual-band duel

  Wireless routers are always something of a mystery. They combine a number of features into a single box and are usually complex to set up, but require little attention after that. 

• How we tested dual-band routers

  We used two platforms. One test platform was the Fluke Networks <a href="http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless/229501964?pgno=2">AirCheck WiFi tester</a>. The AirCheck contains a 2 x 2 antenna system, and thus can support only two spatial streams.

• Cisco vs. HP vs. IBM vs. Dell

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> used to be a networking company, pure and simple. It built its dominance and influence on capturing a dominant market position in routers and switches, both in the enterprise and in service provider networks.

• Cisco rolls out military-strength encryption for ISR router

  Cisco has announced a hardware encryption module for its ISR G2 router that allows point-to-point encryption of IP traffic based on what's called "Suite B," the set of encryption algorithms designated by the National Security Agency for Department of Defense communications.

• 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.

• Cisco CEO's pay falls 32 per cent

  CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip video cam business and eliminated more than 12,000 jobs. His total pay package is down 32% compared to 2010, when Chambers received $18.9 million, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• F5 BIG-IP upgrade improves IP services, battles DDOS attacks

  F5 is touting new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071510-dns-security-cloud.html?ap1=rcb">DNS</a> capabilities in its BIG-IP v11 software as a way for service providers to save money, stave off <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/100411-ddos-voip-251553.html">distributed denial-of-service attacks</a> and scale to support rapidly expanding IP services.