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• Cisco patches a dozen router bugs

  Cisco Systems has released its twice-yearly set of security patches for its router firmware, fixing 12 security flaws in the products.

• Alcatel integrating network layers for efficiency

  Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday set a course for tighter integration of the two main components of long-haul service-provider networks, saying it will help carriers streamline their infrastructure and run it more efficiently.

• Alcatel to push 100G to carrier edge

  Alcatel-Lucent plans to ship a router module next year that supports the emerging 100Gb per second Ethernet standard at the edge of carrier networks, where services are delivered to subscribers.

• Juniper boosts edge routers for multimedia

  Juniper this week announced enhancements to its service provider edge routers that are designed to improve multimedia service delivery to users.

• Juniper claims first with 100G Ethernet

  Juniper has unveiled what it claims is the first 100 Gigabit Ethernet router interface in the industry.

• Cisco, Trend Micro put security in home routers

  Cisco Systems is building a Trend Micro Internet security service into some home Wi-Fi routers to help protect families and small businesses from fraud, phishing and predators.

• Juniper switch enables mega-router creation

  Juniper this week is unveiling a matrix switch for interconnecting core routers into a higher density, more scalable system.

• Cisco: Huge international interest in developer contest

  Cisco Systems is claiming that international interest in its recently launched contest for router-centric application development has been so strong that it must extend the first-phase deadline from Jan. 12 to Feb. 27.

• Cisco doubles router speed with new processor

  Cisco Systems announced Thursday that it is doubling the speed of its Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series routers to 20Gbit/sec., only eight months after introducing the product line.

• Could 'fat-tree' switch setup trim data center costs?

  Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts.