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Data center interconnect
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 ...
- February 09, 2010
09 Feb'10
Cisco data center interconnect aims to fix vMotion network trouble
In the past, vMotion network problems have inhibited virtual server migration across data centers, but Cisco claims its new data center interconnect technology, Overlay Transport Virtualization, fixes the problem.
- July 29, 2003
29 Jul'03
Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices: Internetworking concepts overview
This chapter excerpt reviews the basic internetworking concepts including network components, planning hierarchical networks, and an in-depth discussion of the OSI model.
- October 10, 2001
10 Oct'01
Intel's multi-billion-dollar vote of confidence
Intel CEO Craig Barrett says it's possible for companies to come out of the current economic downturn stronger than they were when they went in. Barrett told an audience gathered at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo in Orlando, Fla. that investing now<...