We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables.

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If you use a wireless router, enable the encryption to scramble the data you send online.

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GF6 transfers the data to PC or other electronic devices automatically via the wireless access point (router) at home.

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If you use a wireless router, password protect it and enable the encryption to scramble the data you send online.

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When employees connect to an unsecured wireless network in a coffee shop or in their home, they expose all the data they're working on to the whims of whoever else controls the router.

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Using Verizon's wireless network to transmit data, the information is fed to the cloud through Cisco's 819 Integrated Services Router.

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The router then determines the user's security clearance and gives his machine the right data and services, from Internet phone to online chat to two-way video broadcast.

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Gathering data from several of Cisco's test customers, he found that the cost to operate the router is a fifth to a half the combined energy usage and maintenance costs of the hardware that hosts the same services.

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