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Week of 30 Jan 2012 Cisco 40 GbE and 100 GbE switching debut at Cisco Live London (01 Feb 2012)
Cisco released 40 and 100 GbE line cards for the Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 6500, as well as network virtualization strategies that enhance both campus and data center networks.
Cisco Live London: Cisco debuts 4x4 MIMO wireless LAN access point (31 Jan 2012)
At Cisco Live London, Cisco introduced a three-stream 4x4 MIMO wireless LAN access point, the faster and longer-range Aironet 3600.
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Week of 23 Jan 2012 IBM partners with NEC for OpenFlow switch, software-defined networking (25 Jan 2012)
IBM launched a new OpenFlow switch as part of a software-defined networking partnership with OpenFlow pioneer NEC, making IBM a player in data center networking.
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Week of 16 Jan 2012 Network security test: Crossbeam secures 1 million simultaneous users (19 Jan 2012)
Crossbeam performed a network security test that emulated one million simultaneous mobile users on its network security hardware.
Online sports site uses super-scalable network security hardware (19 Jan 2012)
In this Q&A, Australia’s online betting site Sportsbet reveals how it scales network security with network hardware security specialist Crossbeam.
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Week of 09 Jan 2012 Magic Quadrant: Next-generation firewalls are mainstream (12 Jan 2012)
Next-generation firewalls have enjoyed a lot of hype in recent years, but now they are also dominating the market, according to Gartner’s latest firewall Magic Quadrant.
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Week of 19 Dec 2011 Network technology trends for 2012: Network management (22 Dec 2011)
Looking at network management technology trends for 2012, EMA's Jim Frey predicts cross-domain management, SaaS-based management and cloud SLAs.
Network technology trends for 2012: Network security (22 Dec 2011)
Looking at network security technology trends for 2012, Gartner’s Greg Young predicts better security of virtualization and emerging data center fabrics.
Network technology trends for 2012: The big picture (22 Dec 2011)
Forrester Research analyst Andre Kindness shares big picture predictions for network technology trends in 2012: the rise of Huawei and why networkers need software skills
Network technology trends for 2012: Wireless LAN and BYOD (22 Dec 2011)
Craig Mathias of Farpoint Group shares his predictions for the wireless LAN industry in 2012, as BYOD forces enterprises to rethink their management approaches.
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Week of 12 Dec 2011 Network technology trends 2012: Out-of-band management and DevOps (15 Dec 2011)
F5 Networks’ technology evangelist Lori MacVittie shares her take on network technology trends in 2012, including the return of the out-of-band management network.
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Week of 05 Dec 2011 Adtran WLAN access points enable integrated wireless and wired network (08 Dec 2011)
With a software upgrade to its Bluesocket wireless access points, Adtran offers an integrated wireless and wired network option.
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Week of 28 Nov 2011 Research institute deploys 100 Gigabit Ethernet from core to closet (28 Nov 2011)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute deployed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) out to its wiring closets with Brocade to support 10 GbE endpoints and high-performance computing.
Ruckus joins real-time wireless channel selection fray (01 Dec 2011)
With real-time wireless channel selection, Ruckus is promising advanced RF management and optimization, but testing for the technology is still in order.
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Week of 14 Nov 2011 Network upgrade yields facilities automation, active-active data center (17 Nov 2011)
With an HP-based network upgrade, the University of North Florida can now support facilities automation and an active-active data center.
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Week of 07 Nov 2011 Brocade’s stackable switch: The low-cost alternative to Catalyst 3750? (10 Nov 2011)
With its new stackable switch, Brocade offers an alternative to Cisco’s Catalyst 3750 with plenty of bandwidth and features and a much lower price.
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Week of 31 Oct 2011 NetFlow analyzer improves security, network capacity management (03 Nov 2011)
Fitchburg State University installed Lancope’s SteathWatch NetFlow analyzer to boost security and network capacity management.
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Week of 24 Oct 2011 Network traffic capture systems offer broader security visibility (28 Oct 2011)
Network traffic capture systems offer network security appliances better visibility into network activity.
Riverbed rolls out application delivery controller for the cloud (26 Oct 2011)
Riverbed’s rebranding of the Zeus application delivery controller and Aptimize Web content optimization targets cloud networking.