Cisco still leading lackluster market

Infonetics Research expects the service provider router and switch market to grow at a compounded annual rate of just under 9% from now until 2017. This, despite a lackluster Q1 of 2013.

[ON THE HORIZON: What's Next for Ethernet?]

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Cisco looks to standardize context-aware security

Cisco is looking to standardize a framework it developed for integrating disparate security products from multiple vendors. The framework is called the Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) and it allows third-party developers of security applications to add capabilities to Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE). ISE is designed to provide policy-based, context-aware security for Cisco networks.

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Is Insieme nigh?

Is Insieme imminent? Sources say Cisco's been briefing customers on it and competitors are gearing up for it, pitching commentary on what it might mean for the industry, and competition between Cisco and VMware/Nicira.

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CCIE's raise Voice over Cisco cert move

Cisco quelled a growing mutiny among CCIEs to the company's recent announcement to obsolete CCIE Voice and have them re-certify for CCIE Collaboration. Petitions and blogs said there should be a smoother transition to CCIE Collaboration from CCIE Voice than just canceling Voice and having them re-certify.

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Cisco leading 100G Ethernet switching

The worldwide Ethernet switch market was $4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2013, down 8% from the fourth quarter of 2012 but up 1% annually, according to Infonetics Research. The first quarter is seasonally soft but the market has grown over the past three quarters despite continuing weakness in Europe and the U.S. federal government vertical, the firm notes.

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Cisco study: More users = more devices = more connections =

Global fixed and mobile IP traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017, according to Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index (VNI), which was released this week. It is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes, or more than a trillion gigabytes per year, by 2017.

That's more global traffic than that generated worldwide from 1984 - 2012 combined, the Cisco study states.

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Juniper invests in cloud and big data

Not long after announcing an integration arrangement with the OpenStack cloud company, Juniper has invested in Cloudscaling's $10 million Series B round.

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Factors converging to drive 10G

The market for 10G Ethernet is poised for strong growth due to a number of factors, according to Crehan Research. Those factors include:

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Cisco to SDN: Bring It On

Never one to back down from a challenge, Cisco CEO John Chambers expressed unbridled confidence in the company's position as it faces down its next test: the advent of SDNs.

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100G, SDN leaving older switches behind

Unlike Juniper core switching customers, HP users can still expect some significant upgrades to their older switches even though HP unveiled two new platforms for the data center last week. HP plans to equip the four-year-old 12500 data center core switch with 40G Ethernet before the end of the year.

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'Bigfoot' SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey

SDN and "The Internet of Things" are two of the hotter topics in the industry today, thanks to industry coalescence and Cisco marketing, respectively. But Cisco admits that less than half of those who work in IT are even vaguely familiar with "The Internet of Things."

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Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch

Here's a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi, senior director of the Server Access Virtualization Technology Group at Cisco - he of the "OpenFlow is a fantasy" rant at a March tech blogger meeting - has jumped to OpenFlow crusader Big Switch Networks. Gandhi will run product strategy and development there.

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Cisco enterprise boss reports on programmability

The Catalyst 3850 switch with Cisco's programmable Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) ASIC and Cisco ONE APIs is in early adopter OpenFlow deployments with academia, reports Rob Soderbery, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group.

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SDN market about to explode

The software-defined networking (SDN) market is expected to surpass $35 billion in the next five years, far higher than previously reported, according to research by start-up vendor Plexxi, website SDNCentral and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Cisco nemesis Huawei retreating from the U.S.

Huawei has retreated from the U.S. market after taking a beating from Congress on security issues with Chinese tech companies, according to this post in sister pub PC World.

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Run from Daylight

Once word started to spread among the vendor community about Cisco and IBM's Project Daylight SDN initiative -- the precursor to the Linux Foundation's OpenDaylight project -- Dell decided to initiate its own SDN standards effort within the Object Management Group.

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Cisco, IBM on the defensive with OpenDaylight

You know, the more you consider the strategic importance of the OpenDaylight project to the vendors involved, the more it becomes apparent: Daylight is defensively strategic to those who seek to marginalize the impact of SDNs in general, and of OpenFlow in particular.

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Cisco sees big plans for Big Data

Two-thirds of IT managers recently surveyed by Cisco believe Big Data will be a strategic priority for their companies over the next five years. Sixty percent said they believe Big Data can help improve decision making and global competitiveness.

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Juniper losing its enterprise mojo

Is Juniper's enterprise strategy unraveling? Enterprise accounts for 35% of the company's business but consider these recent, or recently reported, developments:

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Cisco, others see run on data center switches

Data center Ethernet switch revenues exceeded $2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, putting this market on an $8 billion annual run-rate, according to Crehan Research. Calendar 2012 revenue growth "far exceeded" that of 2011, the firm states, helped by a slowdown in the decline of chassis/modular Ethernet switch shipments and increasing adoption of 10G Ethernet switches.

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