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Jim Duffy
Jim Duffy

Jim Duffy

Managing Editor, Service Providers

Network World, Inc.

 

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Recent articles by Jim Duffy

Cisco, Juniper push new mobility-focused products

February 09, 2010

The two biggest router companies are focusing their attention on mobility this week with products to address operator needs for rich 4G multimedia services.

Cisco to unleash data center extensions

February 05, 2010

Cisco next week is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate resources among multiple data centers and are optimized for cloud computing and virtualization.

Data center service provider helped develop Cisco OTV

February 05, 2010

Terremark Worldwide plans to use Cisco¿s Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) feature to eventually connect 12 data centers worldwide.

Cisco readying major core router upgrade?

February 01, 2010

Cisco is reportedly soon announcing a new carrier core router as a next-generation follow on to the 6-year-old CRS-1, and a better competitor to Juniper's T1600.

Enterprise business again helps Juniper Networks blow past Q4 estimates

January 28, 2010

Enterprise network business once again helped drive Juniper Networks to a better than expected fourth quarter.

Ethernet aimed at data center virtual machines

January 26, 2010

Extreme Networks and Voltaire rolled out Ethernet gear designed to support the growing number of data center virtual machines.

Juniper, Polycom team up for telepresence

January 25, 2010

Juniper and Polycom have announced an alliance to offer telepresence and video conferencing services to enterprises through service providers.

How dead is Nortel?

January 21, 2010

Analysts are mixed on whether Nortel, the disintegrating telecom titan, will survive in some form or die off, becoming a distant memory of a bygone era and century.

Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

January 18, 2010

Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new IEEE Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

Cisco contributes $10 million to telemedicine pilot

January 15, 2010

Cisco has announced a telemedicine pilot program with the state of California and healthcare providers there to provide services to underserved communities.