Jim Duffy

Managing Editor, Service Providers

 

jduffy@nww.com (508) 490-6525 Fax: (508) 490-6438

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Recent articles by Duffy

Cisco looks to accelerate virtualization deployments
07/02/09
Cisco is looking to accelerate the rate at which customers adopt virtualization in their data centers, company officials said at the Cisco Live event this week.

Juniper boosts edge routers for multimedia
06/29/09
Juniper this week announced enhancements to its service provider edge routers that are designed to improve multimedia service delivery to users.

NYSE taps Juniper for 10G Ethernet network
06/24/09
Juniper Networks has landed perhaps its most significant enterprise customer to date, as the New York Stock Exchange plans to deploy hundreds of the company's switches for a time-sensitive, low-latency 10Gbps Ethernet network.

Avaya reportedly offering $500M for Nortel enterprise biz
06/23/09
Avaya has emerged as the “favored bidder” for Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions group, as Nortel is looking to sell off most or all of its assets, having apparently failed in a bid to emerge from bankruptcy as a viable competitor in data networking and telecom.

Juniper taps Microsoft sales exec for partnerships
06/23/09
Juniper this week named former Microsoft sales executive Gerri Elliott to spearhead its alliance strategy.

Data center switch scales to 648 40G ports
06/22/09
Mellanox Technologies is shipping a large-scale switch that scales from 36 40Gbps InfiniBand ports to 648 ports in a single enclosure.

Nortel had little choice but to liquidate, analysts say
06/22/09
In light of the overall economy and Nortel’s particular situation, the former telecom giant had little choice but to liquidate its assets as it attempts to restructure under Chapter 11, analysts say.

Carrier equipment maker Soapstone winding down operations
06/18/09
Soapstone Networks, the company born of Avici Systems' exit from the router market, is liquidating operations.

What is a router?
06/17/09
Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs?

Dallas Cowboys deck out new stadium with Cisco video technology
06/17/09
The Dallas Cowboys this week signed a deal to outfit their brand new stadium with immersive and interactive video technology from Cisco.

Cisco says it’s not eating its SAN young
06/12/09
Cisco says the dropoff in its FibreChannel SAN revenue and market share in Q1 is attributable to three factors: an early stage migration to 8Gbps; a lower cost migration than rival Brocade; and exposure to financial buyers, which is hard hit by the recession.

Former execs offer to buy Nortel: report
06/10/09
Former Nortel executives want to buy the beleaguered company, but need a $1 billion loan from the Canadian government, according to reports from Canada.

Nortel customers upbeat but anxious
06/10/09
Nortel customers remain optimistic despite the company's precarious situation, officials of Nortel's largest enterprise user group said this week.

Ethernet data center switch to take on Cisco Nexus
06/08/09
Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency.

Juniper claims first with 100G Ethernet
06/08/09
Juniper this week is expected to unveil what it claims is the first 100 Gigabit Ethernet router interface in the industry.

Data center network brawl
06/03/09
Cisco has the much-touted Unified Computing System. How do the other big vendors stack up in the battle for the converged data center?

Cisco adds rack server to data center computing system
06/03/09
Cisco this week extended its Unified Computing System data center convergence platform with rack mountable servers, saying the new form factor represents an "entry level" into UCS and more choice for customers.

Cisco added to Dow
06/01/09
Cisco has been added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing GM. Travelers has also been added to the stock index, replacing Citigroup.

Economy, industry consolidation take toll on Interop
05/28/09
The recent Interop Las Vegas had its bright spots: cloud computing generated genuine buzz; HP flexed its growing muscles; and dozens of innovative products were rolled out. However, there was no escaping the fact that the dour economy and significant market consolidation have taken their toll on the network industry and its biggest general trade show.

Cisco enhances routers, switches for collaboration
05/27/09
Cisco this week is extending its branch routers and LAN switches in an effort to improve the collaboration capabilities of enterprise customers.

Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit 'pause button'
05/21/09
LAS VEGAS -- Nortel enterprise customers have pressed “a pause button” in purchasing gear from the company, the chief of Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions group acknowledged this week.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet a hot topic, so hurry up and wait
05/21/09
Fibre Channel over Ethernet is considered an initial step towards a converged data center switching fabric, and it was a hot topic at this week's Interop conference.

HP claims Cisco 'alternative' mantle
05/19/09
Emboldened by its extended partnership with Microsoft, HP ProCurve is positioning itself as the clear alternative to Cisco with renewed vigor.

Adtran unveils Layer 3 switches
05/18/09
Adtran’s first Layer 3 gigabit devices complement its NetVanta Layer 2 workgroup switches.

Nortel continues the enterprise fight
05/18/09
Even though it filed Chapter 11 and is reportedly looking to sell off huge chunks of its business, Nortel is not giving up the enterprise fight.