Ethernet Switch News
Ethernet switching gets specialized
Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer...
Largest Illinois healthcare system uproots Cisco to build $40M private cloud
LAS VEGAS -- A healthcare network in Illinois is investing $40 million in Alcatel-Lucent switches to consolidate data centers into a private cloud.
HP has all the ingredients for software defined networking, almost
HP says it has all of the necessary orchestration tools for its software defined networking strategy - the big question is, will it build its own...
HP, F5 partner to speed delivery of cloud apps
HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a...
Cisco nemesis Huawei to demo 96-port 100G Ethernet switch
Huawei, Cisco's toughest competitor in networking, will debut its entry into enterprise data center switching at this week's Interop 2012 conference...
Extreme Networks adds heavy dose of copper to 10G switches
Extreme Networks Monday unveiled 10G Ethernet copper modules for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch and new fixed copper versions of its Summit X670...
Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core
Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on...
Cisco upgrades industrial Ethernet switches
Cisco this week unveiled an updated line of Ethernet switches for industrial environments, such as manufacturing floors.
Avaya answers Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent with SMB switches
Avaya has unveiled low-end Ethernet switches for small and midsize enterprises and remote branches that include features usually found in higher-end...
Exponential bandwidth growth and cost declines
Global Internet traffic is expected to grow 32% per year from 2010 to 2015. In 2010, an average of 46 terabits/second traveled over the Internet and...
IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds
Mark Adams, vice president of IT at HireRight, is living the dream -- the chance to completely rethink the infrastructure for a $300 million...
IEEE studying lighter Gigabit Ethernet cable for use in cars
Ethernet has gained speed many times, and now it may be about to lose weight.
Dissecting Cisco's FabricPath Ethernet technology
Cisco's FabricPath data center Ethernet technology is designed to combine traditional, Spanning Tree-based Ethernet with a next-generation...
Ethernet Alliance chair talks about key trends, what’s next
John D'Ambrosia, Chief Ethernet Evangelist in the CTO Office at Dell (he came onboard when Dell bought Force10), is a founder of the Ethernet...
Arista embeds applications into Ethernet switch
Arista Networks this week rolled out an Ethernet switch designed to improve the performance of latency-sensitive applications like those found in...
Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data center network market growth, researcher says
Continued growth in the data center network equipment market has opened a window of opportunity for vendors looking to cut into industry leader...
Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible
Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch.
How we tested Arista's DCS-7508 switch
We assessed the Arista DCS-7508 with tests of performance and power consumption. The performance tests used the Spirent TestCenter test instrument to...
Cisco's big comeback
Just a year ago, Cisco's stock was taking a beating after the sales failed to meet Wall Street expectations.The company wasn't exactly reeling, but...
Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net
The State of Indiana has launched a 100G Ethernet network for research and education.
Ethernet Alliance chair talks about key trends, what’s next
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