July 13, 2006
Allied Telesyn last week launched a new lineup of power-over-Ethernet (PoE) and non-PoE switches aimed at small and mid-size companies.
July 11, 2006
Cisco this week launched new versions of its multi-purpose Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), with small offices and large data centers in mind. The company also introduced a new version of its Network Admission Control (NAC) appliance, and an upgrade to IOS software with beefed-up security features.
July 05, 2006
Foundry Networks recently launched several lines of security-focused switches aimed at locking down desktop LAN ports, enterprise edge and WAN connections, and data center server links.
June 27, 2006
Cisco recently said it was considering unbundling network software from its current hardware platforms - a move that could end up costing users more but could give them increased flexibility in buying and configuring the company's gear.
June 23, 2006
Virgin Megastores has 17 locations in the U.S., where it sells music, electronics and fashion products. But the retailer is in the entertainment business as much it is a seller of CDs, DVDs, and gadgets, says Robert Fort, IT director for the Virgin Entertainment Group.
Jon Campbell - Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert No. 13772 - is the director of network services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a nonprofit healthcare network serving 15 counties and including three hospitals and clinics and other facilities throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.
James Henry Carmouche might have already built and tested the network you will soon be deploying. As technical marketing engineer in Cisco's Enterprise Systems Engineering group, Carmouche figures out the best way to put together the products Cisco makes.
June 15, 2006
Cisco and Blade Network Technologies -- a Nortel spin-off company -- were both quick to announce new switch gear to go with HP's latest BladeSystem c-Class blade server product.
June 14, 2006
Users should expect to see 10G Ethernet-over-copper gear coming to market soon, as the IEEE last week cleared the way for the 802.3an 10GBase-T standard.
June 13, 2006
If you have a big IP telephony or WLAN planned in the near future up, get the scoop on Foundry’s upcoming Power over Ethernet switch, targeted at large installations of IP phones, WLAN access points or other PoE-powered devices.
June 09, 2006
Juniper is diving deeper into Ethernet technology, as it attempts to get in on new deployments of carrier Ethernet-based services and migration from SONET to Ethernet. The company used the GlobalComm show this week for its new product launch.
June 01, 2006
Wouldn’t it be nice to plug a Layer 2 Ethernet link directly into an ATA disk drive, and not have to hassle with Fibre Channel or the TCP/IP stack involved with iSCSI storage? Brantley Coile, author of the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol, says he has the solution.
May 31, 2006
D-Link is the first vendor to offer what is expected to be a deluge of commodity switches that integrate 802.11 WLAN and wired Ethernet in the same device. While such products have been available from vendors such as Trapeze and Cisco for years, new chipsets are making this technology easier to get.
May 24, 2006
Cisco's investment strategists must be reading Network World's 2006 10 Startups to Watch list; the network vendor this week got in on an $11 million funding push for NeoPath Networks, a maker of file and storage virtualization gear -- and a member of Network World's top hot start-up honor roll.
The enterprise router market grew in the first quarter, reaching $1 billion in revenue worldwide. Infonetics expects the market to grow to $4.8 billion by 2009. Switch sales were down in Q1 '06, however.
May 22, 2006
Network managers are over-building corporate LANs with Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop and everywhere else, while neglecting key shifts in end-user bandwidth needs among employees, Gartner consulting guru Mark Fabbi said at one of his firm’s IT powwow events last week.
May 19, 2006
Foundry Networks made another security vendor partnership this week, this time with Mazu Networks. The deal lets Foundry switches send sFlow data to the Mazu Profiler Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) device.
May 18, 2006
Federal-sector network professionals worried about the U.S. Government’s IPv6 mandate might want to check out a new technical report from Juniper – "IPv6 Capable: A Guide for Federal Agencies.
May 17, 2006
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski this week kicked off a new technology push focusing on Metro Ethernet for delivering IPTV signals.
May 16, 2006
Juniper’s 18-month roadmap for its WAN gear is an ambitious plan to get the vendor’s WAN acceleration gear up to speed with the competition. The upgrades are expected to come in Juniper’s DX, WX and WCX devices.
May 15, 2006
Cisco says Japanese service provider Yahoo! BB is using the 40Gbps OC-768 module for the CRS-1 router in its broadband delivery network.
May 12, 2006
Foundry launched a ton of new hardware at the recent Interop show, but an updated version of its IronView Network Manager (INM) software, with integrated SNORT IDS capabilities, might be among the vendor's most significant launches this month, at least for security-focused network professionals.
May 11, 2006
Cisco this week began a marketing push to sell the Catalyst 6500 switch -- Cisco flagship enterprise platform -- as the key to virtualizing network services. Cisco is tying these capabilities closely to its SONA concept, with hints at new LAN virtualization products this fall.
Nortel this week announced that it completed transferring all of its manufacturing, product integration, testing, repair, and logistics operations out if its Calgary facility to Flextronics.
May 09, 2006
If you haven't thought of Allied Telesyn in a while, that's not a surprise; the vendor is regularly out marketed and out muscled by Cisco, Nortel and HP. But the small vendor was named one of Network World's top privately-held network firms.
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