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40G market gaining steam
The 40Gbps market is moving into general deployment phase due to video-stressing network capacities, according to research firm Ovum.Cisco Nexus 7000 aims for data center dominance
Building a big data center and looking for a switch to match? How do 256 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and nearly 1.7 terabits of capacity sound?Could 'fat-tree' switch setup trim data center costs?
Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts.Juniper switch proves to be credible choice
Cisco take note: Juniper's new EX 4200 switch not only fills a hole in a leading competitor's product line, but also represents a credible alternative for enterprise access switching.Extreme Networks releases 'pay-as-you-grow' switch
Extreme Networks has announced the Summit X650, a 24-port, non-blocking, 10Gb switch.Racing towards 10Gigabit Ethernet
A university data centre may not seem the place to adopt leading edge technology, given that publicly-funded institutes are chronically short of money.Photonic switching beckons 100x Internet speeds
Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass.Foundry expands switch family with PoE Plus, IPv6
Foundry Networks this week extended its switch line to boost support for network growth, video and other high-power devices, as well as migration to IPv6.Human rights commission open to vendor switch
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) will spend $125,000 to upgrade its network switch infrastructure.Cisco acquires Nuova, unveils new data center switch
Cisco this week announced plans to fully acquire a switch start-up it funded and also unveiled the newest member of its data center switching line, developed by Cisco and that start-up.Force10 switches to open source for core switch OS
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.
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