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It's way too easy to get past a firewall, map out an enterprise's network, and start tapping IP addresses looking for vulnerable machines – so why are we using Layer 3 addressing as the basis of the enterprise network? Avaya's new software-defined-networking-based architecture proposes to stop TCP/IP-based attack traffic at …

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  1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Meh

    A question

    Now everything in IT is 'hyper' what's the next superlative the marketing wonks are going to jump on?

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    1. oldcoder
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      Re: A question

      hyper-cyber...

      ultra-hyper

      ultra-hyper cyber

      and the list of hyp goes on... (pun intended :-)

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  2. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

    BUT IT BREAKS THE END TO END MODEL!

    Queue tantrum from IPv6 purists.

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