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LANs & Routers Newsletter: Metro Ethernet market surges, 04/19/07
Service providers are building metropolitan-area networks, and increasingly they’re turning to metro Ethernet equipment to make them happen.
Start-up says it has biggest 10G Ethernet switch, 04/17/07
Start-up Woven Systems this week is expected to launch its 10G Ethernet data center switch — a box the company says one-ups the switching power of Cisco, Force10 Networks and Foundry Networks 10G gear and matches the low-latency performance of Fibre Channel and InfiniBand with lower-cost Ethernet technology.
LANs & Routers Newsletter: Netgear ships powered LAN switch, 04/17/07
Netgear recently added to its line of Smart Switches with a 24-port switch for small and midsized businesses that supports Power over Ethernet.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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