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Top vendors at Interop 2013

Here are the companies that put their money where their mouth is at Interop Las Vegas last week.

By Zeus Kerravala
May 13, 2013 6 mins
Cisco Systems Data Breach
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Thoughts from Interop 2013: The network has never been more important

Some musings after a long week in Las Vegas at Interop 2013.

By Zeus Kerravala
May 10, 2013 4 mins
Cisco Systems Data Breach SDN
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Cisco Maintains Edge as Director Switches Deliver Highest Performance to Date

Cisco has once again demonstrated that it has its finger on the pulse

By Frank Kobuszewski
May 10, 2013 2 mins
Cisco Systems Networking
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‘Bigfoot’ SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey

IT feeling left out as businesses run roughshod with application rollouts

By Jim Duffy
May 8, 2013 3 mins
Application Performance Management Data Breach Enterprise
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Riverbed unveils the Mini-Me of ADCs

With the Stingray Services Controller, Riverbed opens up a new market for application-delivery-controllers-as-a-service, or ADCaaS.

By Zeus Kerravala
May 7, 2013 3 mins
Cisco Systems Data Center
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Cisco gets tough: Details ruggedized switches for harsh environments

In small form factor, CGS-1000 switch is low-latency and designed for utilities

By Ellen Messmer
May 7, 2013 3 mins
Cisco Systems Network Switches Networking
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MTBF, MTTR and SLAs, oh my

While MTBF and MTTR for broadband are much higher than MPLS, having multiple diverse links addresses the key issue of higher uptime; MPLS's "better" SLA doesn't actually deliver what enterprises care about.

By Andy Gottlieb
May 6, 2013 6 mins
Cisco Systems Telecommunications Industry WAN
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Who will be the big winner in Las Vegas and who is just rolling the dice?

Who will be the winners in the desert?

By Larry Chaffin
May 6, 2013 3 mins
Cisco Systems
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The cloud’s the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches

Arista, HP and Brocade add scale, virtualization hooks to take platforms beyond the data center and raise the bar for forthcoming Cisco/ Insieme products.

By Jim Duffy
May 6, 2013 8 mins
Cisco Systems Cloud Computing Network Switches
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Cisco’s OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch

Fantasy is reality for Prashant Gandhi

By Jim Duffy
May 3, 2013 3 mins
Cisco Systems Data Center Virtualization