Asia-Pacific needs networking pros

Some 3.1 million people will be required in the Asia-Pacific region alone in the field of computer networking by 2012, says the Sunday Times.

India currently graduates only about 20 000 IT students annually, while Sri Lanka outputs a mere 10% of its larger neighbour's load.

As such, there are great opportunities in this field, according to Lokesh Mehra, Cisco's regional manager for corporate responsibility.

Quezon city councillor Prescious Hipolito Castelo wants full coverage under the wireless local area network, writes Manila Standard.

In her proposed measure, the Philippine councillor says she would require free connections in all commercial hubs for the benefit of patrons.

Devices such as a personal computer, video game console, mobile phone, MP3 player or personal digital assistant within the zone could access the network.

Extreme Networks, in partnership with Exar, is expanding the reach of its Direct Attach architecture to support VMware deployments, notes eWeek.

When Extreme officials first introduced Direct Attach virtualised networking architecture at the Interop 2010 show in April, it was demonstrated using a Linux-based KVM virtualisation technology.

That was fine for the demonstration, but wouldn't work if the company wanted to rapidly expand the adoption of its Direct Attach architecture, according to Shehzad Merchant, senior director of strategy for Extreme.