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Extreme Networks and Alcatel-Lucent this week are unveiling equipment designed to further whet carriers' appetites for Ethernet.

As faster wireless 802.11n networks gain adoption, organizations want to deploy planning tools to deal with complexities in rolling out the new technology and to keep the networks secure.

Brocade's proposed US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks this week would create a stronger data center competitor to Cisco while raising the stakes even higher for other Ethernet switch companies.

Extreme Networks has announced the Summit X650, a 24-port, non-blocking, 10Gb switch.

Extreme Networks this week said it won a year-old patent infringement case against competitor Enterasys Networks.

Extreme Networks this week threw its hat into the 10Gbps top of rack data center switching fray with a product that's designed to offer a migration path from 1Gbps and can scale through stacking.

Expect Juniper to roll out low-end branch-office routers over the next year as it tries to supply equipment for small businesses and branch offices, the new head of the company's branch-office business said during an interview at Interop.

Extreme Networks announced free online access yesterday to a new set of development tools called Widget Central as well as a new SDK (Software Development Kit) for ExtremeXOS, the operating system for Extreme's LAN switches.

There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and -- let's be honest --more than a little hype, too. In the early days, the focus was on how Ethernet was going to displace SONET and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy as a low-level optical technology.

10G Ethernet vendor Force10 Networks is changing the operating system on its data centre switches to FreeBSD, an open source platform, with the aim of improving switch performance for customers.