Learn About the New Cisco Aironet Series 1600 Access Point

The Cisco Aironet 1600 Series offers small and midsized enterprises great performance, functionality, and reliability at a competitive price.

Designed with rapidly evolving mobility needs in mind, the 802.11n-based Aironet 1600 Series offers small and midsized enterprises an entry-level access point with advanced features. With the Aironet 1600 Series, customers can modernize their network to handle today's explosion of more clients, applications, and bandwidth demands.

The 1600 Series offers the advantage of 802.11n enterprise-class performance with 3x3 multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology with two spatial streams-ideal for small and midsized enterprises.

It provides efficient wireless coverage through Cisco ClientLink 2.0, CleanAir Express*, and Cisco Wireless VideoStream technologies. Cisco ClientLink 2.0 on the Aironet 1600 Series works to improve downlink performance and range for most mobile devices, while improving battery life on devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Cisco Aironet 1600 Series Access Points are designed to help ensure an interference-free, high-speed, wireless experience.

Entry-level access point for small to midsized organizations, including retail, manufacturing, education, and branch officesAttractive price and performance for migrating to 802.11nUp to six times more capacity to support applications and clients than legacy 802.11a/b/g networksCisco ClientLink 2.0 for better downlink performance and range and longer battery life on mobile devicesCisco CleanAir Express* for proactive spectrum intelligence to address RF interference problems Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty, including 10-day advance hardware replacementCisco ClientLink 2.0 technologyCisco VideoStream technologyCisco BandselectCleanAir Express*

*Available through future software updates.

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SafeGuard Your Business with Cisco ISA500 Series Security Appliances

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Converge Wired and Wireless with Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches

Cisco Unified Access is the convergence of the wired and wireless networks into one physical infrastructure. It offers greater intelligence, simplicity, performance, and open interfaces. One network starts with Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switches, which combine wired and wireless by supporting wireless tunnel termination and full wireless LAN controller functionality.

The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch currently offers the industry's highest 480 Gbps stacking bandwidth to meet network demand, including gigabit desktop and 802.11ac wireless. The switch delivers advanced capabilities such as a high-performance 24/48 port GE switch, 480 G stacking, Power over Ethernet Plus, StackPower and Flexible NetFlow on all ports.

The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch brings Cisco IOS excellence to wireless by extending wired infrastructure features, resiliency, granular QoS, and scalability. It provides built-in wireless controller capabilities with 40 G wireless throughput, support for 50 access points and 2000 wireless clients per switch or stack, and support for 802.11ac.

The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch delivers common intelligent services across wired and wireless for security and policy, application visibility and control, network resiliency, smart operations, and more. The switch can enable multi-level QoS based on granular information such as SSID, client, radio, application, and fair share policies for wireless.

The heart of Cisco Catalyst 3850 is the new ASIC with programmability for future features and intelligence with investment protection. The new ASIC provides a foundation for converged APIs across wired and wireless, software-defined networking (SDN) support, and Cisco One Platform Kit (OnePK).

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Extending Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches create the network foundation for your next-generation Unified Fabric data center. Modular Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches, including the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco Nexus 7700 switches, deliver a comprehensive Cisco NX-OS feature set. They offer high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet with application-awareness and comprehensive performance analytics for the data center.

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The new Cisco bidirectional transceiver provides one of the industry's most cost-effective 40 Gigabit Ethernet solutions.

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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches offer one of the most comprehensive data center network feature sets in a single platform. They deliver high performance and density for core, aggregation, end-of-row, and top-of-rack server deployments in a highly resilient modular platform.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series runs on Cisco NX-OS Software. It was specifically designed for the most mission-critical enterprise and service provider data center deployments.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed around three principles:

Infrastructure scalability: Virtualization, efficient power and cooling, high density, and performance all support efficient data center growth.Operational continuity: The design integrates hardware, NX-OS software features, and management to support zero-downtime environments. Transport flexibility:You can incrementally and cost-effectively adopt new networking technologies.

New technologies that you can support include:

  The new Cisco Nexus 7700 Switches extend the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series with the addition of three new chassis. These new switches offer superior scalability while maintaining operational, feature, and architectural consistency across the entire Cisco Nexus 7000 Series.

The next-generation F3-Series modules deliver superior feature, scale and performance. Integrated with Cisco NX-OS software, the F3 modules deliver one of the industry's broadest feature sets in a single module. This gives customers the flexibility to deploy a wide range of network designs, while protecting their investments.

1/10 GE density with Cisco Nexus 2000Line-rate 10 GE densityUp to 768 ports (copper or fiber)40 GE and 100 GEUp to 192 40 GE ports and 32 100 GE portsUp to 384 40 GE ports and 192 100 GE portsManagement toolCisco Data Center Network ManagerCisco Data Center Network Manager

Optimize your data center for cloud and traditional environments with Cisco Validated Design Guides.

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JC Tran discusses World Series of Poker final table

Sacramento's JC Tran has come a long way since arriving in California as a 2-year-old immigrant in 1979. Tran is chip leader going into the final table of the World Series of Poker's Main Event, the man with the best shot of taking home the $8.3 million top prize.

A seasoned pro, Tran honed his game at the Capitol Casino in Sacramento and has won two WSOP bracelets and a World Poker Tour title. He has career earnings of more than $8 million. But years ago, he was known for playing fast and loose.

"When I was younger I won a lot of money, but I didn't know the true value of a dollar," he said in a phone interview. Now 36, Tran says he's a changed man and his top priority is his family. He has a 2 1/2-year-old son and a daughter due next month.

"I've cleaned it up a lot. I don't put myself in situations where I'm playing crazy in cash games and losing big chunks of money," he said. "My family taught me well to be humble and appreciate life - we never had a lot of money. Now you won't see me coin-flipping in a cash game hand for $100,000. I'm still grinding."

Tran will earn a minimum of $733,000 for making the final table, to be held Nov. 4-5 at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas. With his strong chip position (38 million chips - no other player has more than 30 million), he's likely to add several million dollars to his bank account. But he doesn't plan to buy anything special, just invest in his kids' college fund and save for retirement.

"I have what I need," he said. "I don't need fancy jewelry or any of that stuff."

Tran says he's in good shape mentally for the final table and can use his towering chip stack "to keep pushing it and win some hands." But he won't be too aggressive because at the Main Event final table, "every pay jump is like winning another tournament." For example the difference between finishing second and third is more than $1.4 million.

Tran said he can play aggressive or tight. "That's an advantage I have over guys who have just one style." But he's not taking any of his opponents lightly.

"In the end I'm playing with eight other guys who have played seven great days of poker," he said. "No one is easy money here. Everyone has potential to win and everyone's a threat."

Michael Shapiro is a freelance writer and author of "A Sense of Place." E-mail: 96hours@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @shapirowrites

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JC Tran discusses World Series of Poker final table

Sacramento's JC Tran has come a long way since arriving in California as a 2-year-old immigrant in 1979. Tran is chip leader going into the final table of the World Series of Poker's Main Event, the man with the best shot of taking home the $8.3 million top prize.

A seasoned pro, Tran honed his game at the Capitol Casino in Sacramento and has won two WSOP bracelets and a World Poker Tour title. He has career earnings of more than $8 million. But years ago, he was known for playing fast and loose.

"When I was younger I won a lot of money, but I didn't know the true value of a dollar," he said in a phone interview. Now 36, Tran says he's a changed man and his top priority is his family. He has a 2 1/2-year-old son and a daughter due next month.

"I've cleaned it up a lot. I don't put myself in situations where I'm playing crazy in cash games and losing big chunks of money," he said. "My family taught me well to be humble and appreciate life - we never had a lot of money. Now you won't see me coin-flipping in a cash game hand for $100,000. I'm still grinding."

Tran will earn a minimum of $733,000 for making the final table, to be held Nov. 4-5 at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas. With his strong chip position (38 million chips - no other player has more than 30 million), he's likely to add several million dollars to his bank account. But he doesn't plan to buy anything special, just invest in his kids' college fund and save for retirement.

"I have what I need," he said. "I don't need fancy jewelry or any of that stuff."

Tran says he's in good shape mentally for the final table and can use his towering chip stack "to keep pushing it and win some hands." But he won't be too aggressive because at the Main Event final table, "every pay jump is like winning another tournament." For example the difference between finishing second and third is more than $1.4 million.

Tran said he can play aggressive or tight. "That's an advantage I have over guys who have just one style." But he's not taking any of his opponents lightly.

"In the end I'm playing with eight other guys who have played seven great days of poker," he said. "No one is easy money here. Everyone has potential to win and everyone's a threat."

Michael Shapiro is a freelance writer and author of "A Sense of Place." E-mail: 96hours@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @shapirowrites

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OCZ Announces the Vertex 450 Series Solid State Drives

OCZ Technology Group announced on Thursday the launch of its Vertex 450 SATA III SSD series. The new solid state drive (SSD) series is designed to bridge the gap between high-performance and mainstream solid-state storage, offering the company's proprietary Indilinx Barefoot 3 M10 series controller and 20nm NAND Flash.

The Vertex 450 series will offer 20nm NAND flash replacing the 25nm-based Vertex 4 previously used. With this new technology the Vertex 450 will boasts bandwidth up to 540MB/s read, 530 MB/s write, and 4K random write performance of up to 90,000 IOPS.

The Barefoot 3 M10 controller will offer high speed sequential transfers for both compressed and uncompressed data file formats offering faster file transfers and boot-ups. Derived on existing technologies that add AES-256 encryption and a power-optimized clock, the BF3 M10 controller will provide the OCZ with a suite of flash management tools that analyze and adapt to increase NAND vulnerabilities as flash cells wear, helping to increase data integrity.

The Vertex 450 SSDS will also feature 7mm alloy housing for compatibility with thin form factors, and the device will be bundled with a 3.5-inch adapter bracket as well as Acronis True Image cloning software with Windows 8 support. The Vertex 540 will be available in 128GB to 512GB capacities with a 3-year warranty. 

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