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The 12 most popular newsletters of all time: This week will be the final week of the Network Architecture newsletter as penned by me. Before we say goodbye in Thursday's issue, I'd like to take...

Cisco to unleash data center extensions: Cisco next week is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate resources...

Facebook sees need for Terabit Ethernet: Facebook's data centers already need 100-Gigabit Ethernet and ideally could use 1-Terabit Ethernet, according to a senior network engineer at the...

WAN Governance Executive Primer WHITE PAPER: Given the dependence on wide area networks for operational performance and enterprise growth, WAN Governance, a strategic and business-driven...

Broadcom advances 10G Ethernet chips: Broadcom this week unveiled the next generation of its 10 Gigabit Ethernet network interface controller, plus a low-power 10GBase-T PHY.

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Enterprise business again helps Juniper Networks blow past Q4 estimates: Enterprise network business once again helped drive Juniper Networks to a better than expected fourth quarter.

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

Technology Brief: Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with Intel Xeon processors WHITE PAPER: An HP ProLiant c-Class server blade is a complete server that slides into an HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. Learn about the three different...

Loss of Copper Wiring Threatens Small Business Broadband: The loss of existing copper wiring--once the foundation of America's telecommunications infrastructure--threatens small businesses' access to...

100G network processor available: EZchip Semiconductor has finally started making available a network processor that is capable of a whopping 100Gbps in throughput.

Alcatel hikes optical speed with less energy: Alcatel-Lucent will try to tackle the growing volume of traffic on carrier networks with an optical switch that can handle 4T bits per second (bps)...

IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers WHITE PAPER: Most organizations faced with budget challenges put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives, such as extending server life cycles and...

Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches: 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...

Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test: As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data...

Lies, Damned Lies and Latency: Some vendors' data sheets claim lower latency and jitter than the numbers we measured in this test. While these claims are valid, they also should...

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