Network Switches

25G driving Ethernet switch market to $25B

It's not here yet but it'll be a big seller when it is, says Dell'Oro

Cisco ready to ship ACI controller

APIC slated to ship later this week; new switches, bundles here too.

25G Ethernet moving fast

Could be No. 2 data center server access port in next 5 years

IEEE forms 25G Ethernet study group

IEEE follows formation of vendor consortium to develop product for data centers

Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking

Arista targets Big Data, IP storage with 100G leaf switches

Also, extensions to its switch operating system lets users deploy 40G Ethernet over single or multimode fiber.

Cisco mulling membership in Google, Microsoft Ethernet group

25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium formed with Arista, Broadcom and Mellanox for faster development of lower cost/gigabit data center links.

SDN start-up reaches for its “Wedge”

Following Facebook model, Pluribus Networks lets Arrow spearhead server/switch hardware sales while it focuses on network hypervisor software

HP doubles enterprise switch capacity; calls revamped 5400R a Cisco Catalyst 4500 ‘killer’

HP claims the 5400R, with new 2Tbps ProVision ASIC, is 3X faster than the Cisco Catalyst 4500.

3 steps for moving Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 to the Nexus 9000