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Network World WAN Alert Jun 28, 2016 Google Fiber will add urban coverage and wireless by acquiring Webpass Google Fiber is acquiring Internet service provider Webpass to be able to offer to customers a combination of fiber and wireless delivery of high-speed Internet. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Activists fighting expansion of government powers to hack private computers • Arista infringes on Cisco networking patents, trade agency says • Is Apstra SDN? Same idea, different angle • New fiber light patterns will shatter a 'bandwidth ceiling' • Let's Encrypt accuses Comodo of trying to swipe its brand • New products of the week 6.27.16 • 'Trojan horse' stalks security conference White Paper: Dimension Data Enabling Transformation to a Digital Enterprise As enterprise organizations move to adopt digitization, leveraging technologies of the Third Platform, the impact on enterprise networks will be profound as they contend with balancing business and technology forces. More importantly enterprises have concerns with supporting and managing new architectural models and operating practices that new IT workloads require. Read More ▶ Activists fighting expansion of government powers to hack private computers Rights activists led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project are rallying similar organizations and their constituents to step up opposition to a rules change backed by the U.S. Justice Department that would grant vast new surveillance authorities and undermine anonymity online. Read More ▶ Arista infringes on Cisco networking patents, trade agency says In a move that could lead to a ban on selling its products in the United States, the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Arista does in fact infringe on a number of Cisco's technology patents. Arista now must decide if it wants to ask the US government to overturn the so-called "import ban" or ask that an appeals court toss the decision, observers say. It could also decide to build products in the US – a move that Cisco says would "not only would violate the ITC orders, but the federal court has the authority to enjoin local manufacturing of infringing products." Read More ▶ Is Apstra SDN? Same idea, different angle One of the main goals of SDN (software-defined networking) is to make networks more agile to meet the changing demands of applications. A new Silicon Valley startup, Apstra, says it has an easier way to do the same thing. Read More ▶ New fiber light patterns will shatter a 'bandwidth ceiling' Holograms can be used to gain higher data rates in fiber, increasing bandwidth 100 times, scientists say. Read More ▶ Let's Encrypt accuses Comodo of trying to swipe its brand Let's Encrypt, a free certificate authority launched by the Internet Security Research Group in November 2014 and backed by some of the biggest names in the industry, today revealed that rival CA Comodo is attempting to "improperly" trademark the Let's Encrypt brand. Read More ▶ New products of the week 6.27.16 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as WTI and Skytap. Read More ▶ 'Trojan horse' stalks security conference The creation pictured above, dubbed "Cyber Horse," greets attendees of the ongoing Cyber Week 2016 conference being held at Tel Aviv University. Read More ▶ Video/Webcast: AetherPal, Inc. Will Your Support Strategy Scale for Mobile Apps? Mobile apps are transforming financial services, field services, health care, retail, and nearly every industry. They enable users to complete business critical tasks at the optimal time and place, such as a point of sale, an accident site, or a patient's home. Modern workers are dependent on apps to perform their jobs and modern businesses are dependent on apps to operate. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS The 10 most powerful supercomputers in the world 20 highest paid tech CEOs Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Gartner's top 10 security predictions 2. 19 free cloud storage options 3. Gartner: Cloud will be the "default option" for software deployment by 2020 4. Amazing analysis of the Brexit with machine learning 5. Top U.S. states and cities with unsecured security cameras 6. 20 highest paid tech CEOs 7. Arista infringes on Cisco networking patents, trade agency says 8. Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords 9. 7 free tools every network needs 10. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac

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