Networking News

• Week of 14 May 2012 BYOD policy: More than on-boarding and security (17 May 2012)

  Experts say a BYOD policy will require network managers to reach across IT silos.

• Week of 30 Apr 2012 Interop 2012: OpenFlow grows up, Google gets networks, Huawei debuts (04 May 2012)

  News Director Shamus McGillicuddy previews what he'll be tracking at Interop 2012: Software-defined networking a year older and wiser, BYOD madness and Huawei blitzes America.

• Week of 23 Apr 2012 WLAN design with Wi-Fi beamforming solves warehouse network problems (24 Apr 2012)

  Warehousing firm WOW Logistics solved its WLAN design troubles with Wi-Fi beamforming from Ruckus Wireless.

• Week of 16 Apr 2012 Open Networking Summit: NEC waits for no one; SDN 'ready to go' (18 Apr 2012)

  While other vendors move cautiously into OpenFlow and software-defined networking, NEC continues to release actual product with v2 of its ProgrammableFlow ecosystem.

• Arista FPGA switch could revolutionize Layer 4-7 network services (18 Apr 2012)

  With its embedded field-programmable gate array, Arista's new switch may resonate beyond the latency-phobic government and financial sectors and transform Layer 4-7 services.

• Open Networking Summit 2012: Take your proprietary networking and... (17 Apr 2012)

  At the Open Networking Summit 2012, heavy hitters like Cisco, HP, Google and VMware are talking the future of software-defined networking. Think open-source network apps.

• Week of 09 Apr 2012 Now hiring at Cisco: OpenFlow and software-defined networking experts (12 Apr 2012)

  Cisco's mysterious ConnectedApps team is hiring OpenFlow and software-defined networking (SDN) pros to build an SDK that opens up Cisco gear to SDN.

• Infoblox offers network automation for data-center administration (09 Apr 2012)

  Network engineers spend too much time on administrative tasks that support server virtualization. Infoblox wants to free those engineers with network automation.

• Week of 02 Apr 2012 With CCIE Data Center, can network engineers become data center gurus? (05 Apr 2012)

  With its new CCIE Data Center certification, Cisco offers training that allows network engineers to work across IT silos.

• Week of 26 Mar 2012 Q&A: Avaya's networking chief on Shortest Path Bridging and SDN (30 Mar 2012)

  Avaya senior vice president Marc Randall talks about Shortest Path Bridging, software-defined networking and Avaya's efforts to raise its profile as a networking vendor.

• Week of 19 Mar 2012 Meru offers virtual wireless LAN controller, iPad management app (20 Mar 2012)

  Meru introduced a virtual wireless LAN controller as an alternative to hardware-based appliances and virtual versions of its E(z)RF management suite.

• Week of 12 Mar 2012 Dell-SonicWall deal: Next-generation firewall boosts data center play (14 Mar 2012)

  The Dell-SonicWall acquisition broadens Dell’s increasingly formidable data center infrastructure and services strategy with a next-generation firewall product.

• Alcatel-Lucent enterprise chief on pushing into North America (15 Mar 2012)

  In this Q&A, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise division president Michel Emelianoff explains how his company will win over North America customers.

• Week of 05 Mar 2012 Brocade HyperEdge: Manage a campus network as one giant switch stack (07 Mar 2012)

  Brocade is previewing HyperEdge, a management layer technology that allows network managers to administer an entire campus network like they would manage a switch stack.

• Week of 27 Feb 2012 Cisco SecureX strategy gets boost with application-aware firewall (28 Feb 2012)

  Under new leadership, the networking giant's security group relaunched Cisco SecureX with several new products, including an application-aware firewall.

• Cisco CEO John Chambers on ASICs, OpenFlow and QFabric (28 Feb 2012)

  A small group of tech journalists huddled with Cisco CEO John Chambers to talk about Cisco’s turnaround efforts and its strategy in several key technology markets.

• Week of 20 Feb 2012 Nicira network virtualization architecture: The VMware of networking? (21 Feb 2012)

  In this Q&A, Nicira Networks' Martin Casado and Alan S. Cohen explain why their network virtualization architecture may be the VMware of networking.

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