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Data center interconnect

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Cisco faces sales slump amid Chinese tariffs, falling SP revenues

  Cisco forecast weak revenue growth in the current quarter, as service provider sales fell and product orders were flat. The company also reported being shut out of China.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Pluribus Networks unveils edge router for service providers

  Pluribus Networks has unveiled a gateway router for service providers that's a no-frills alternative to products from Cisco and Juniper Networks.

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Cisco sees the future of switching in Luxtera silicon photonics

  Cisco believes the future in switching and routing is in Luxtera silicon photonics. As a result, the networking giant plans to buy the company for $660 million in cash.

• June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17

  Arista pumps up its spine-leaf architecture for huge data centers

  Arista has upgraded its spine-leaf architecture for service providers and huge data centers. The update includes a new spine switch and line cards.

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Console's cloud interconnect lets users link multiple providers

  Console unveils a cloud interconnect service that offers a more secure and stable connection between multiple cloud providers.

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Latest Juniper line cards add flexibility to DCI product portfolio

  The latest Juniper line cards provide more connection options for companies using the vendor's data center interconnect technology.

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  High-speed DCI technologies critical in age of cloud, big data

  High-speed data center interconnect can help network managers handle the data explosion, preventing east-west traffic jams in the era of cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  Data center interconnect market: Enterprises, providers fuel growth

  The data center interconnect market is poised for significant growth, thanks to a number of factors altering the IT landscape -- including the growing use of cloud services, the massive proliferation of data, the increasing adoption of ...

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Juniper's Aurrion buy brings silicon photonics to DCI strategy

  Juniper Networks' acquisition of Aurrion adds important silicon photonics to the networking vendor's data center interconnect technology.

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Juniper targets DCI technology market for growth

  Juniper Networks sees sales growth in metro networks and the DCI technology market.

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Arista provides DCI hardware to 7500E spine switch

  Arista has released DCI hardware for its 7500E spine switch. The line card adds another use case for the highly programmable switch.

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Ciena unveils DCI for metro data centers

  Ciena unveils an interconnect for the metro data centers of enterprises and Internet content providers.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Dell launches SMB switch line

  Dell's latest switches provide basic networking for small and medium-sized companies with fewer than 1,000 employees.

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  NEC's controller tackles SDN orchestration for data center interconnect

  NEC's new Unified Network Coordinator creates a data center interconnect by using an SDN orchestration tool for multiple OpenFlow controllers.

• April 05, 2010 05 Apr'10

  Is data center interconnect news worth a flogging?

  Two months ago I wrote a story about Cisco's Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) data center interconnect technology, which Cisco claims can take a lot of complexity out of data center ...