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  • IBM data center networking strategy: Battle HP with partnerships

    IBM has broadened its data center networking offerings with new Brocade and Juniper OEM deals and a reselling agreement with Cisco for its Nexus 5000 switches. By strengthening its data center networking capabilities, IBM is positioning itself for an... 

  • Intelligent edge switches: Complexity is driving a smarter LAN

    Intelligent edge switches are becoming more critical as network access control and security requirements become more complex and network managers are forced to handle network access for nonemployees, mobile workers and employees with multiple user pr... 

  • Despite Avaya deal, Nortel partners must sell themselves to customers

    With Avaya's agreement to buy Nortel's enterprise business for $475 million, Nortel partners finally have some certainty about the future of the products and services they are trying to sell. But they are still worried about how the deal will play ou... 

  • What will Avaya do with Nortel's data networking business?

    Avaya's acquisition of Nortel's enterprise division is clearly about gaining access to Nortel's voice customers and channel partners, but the deal also includes Nortel's significant data networking business. Avaya may try to retain that business and ... 

  • Q&A: Nortel's data networking chief discusses the future

    Recently, SearchNetworking.com published a story about the future of the Nortel enterprise data business in the wake of the company's bankruptcy. The story characterized Nortel's data portfolio as an old product line. The story also said that the man... 

  • Nortel routers and switches may go to buyer of telephony business

    Nortel enterprise customers could get swept up in a larger deal for Nortel's telephony business, but it remains to be seen how well a telephony-focused buyer will support networking enterprise customers. 

  • 3Com hopes to win enterprise networking customers with global H3C push

    Nearly 10 years after it abandoned the enterprise networking market, 3Com is trying to shake off its SMB reputation. It has announced plans to launch its successful Chinese-centric H3C brand globally as its new enterprise networking brand. 

  • Extreme's port extender can replace consumer devices at network edge

    Extreme Networks has introduced the ReachNXT 100-8t, a port extender that allows enterprises to create multiple network connections at the outer edges of their networks. The device offers an enterprise-grade alternative to consumer network devices fr... 

  • Cisco unveils Unified Computing, merging servers, storage and networks

    With Unified Computing, Cisco enters the blade server market, but it's putting more emphasis on an architecture that tightly couples servers, storage and virtualization with the network in order to enable cloud computing. 

  • Network change and configuration management vendors see big changes

    Two leading independent network change and configuration management vendors have seen big changes this winter. Netcordia gave its product a makeover, while AlterPoint changed ownership.