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Can you imagine a world where carriers offered Metro FDDI services? Or the IEEE defined a standard for Token Bus in the First Mile?

NEW YORK -- As Cisco wraps up migrating its Catalyst 6500 installed base to either the E-series chassis or the Nexus platform, the company has plenty on tap next year for the venerable core switch.

HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market.

Cisco this week said it acquired ThinkSmart Technologies of Cork, Ireland, a software company that delivers location data analysis based on Wi-Fi networks.

Another lineup in our continuing search for the most useful sites on the Web for Cisco users and practitioners.

Cisco CEO John Chambers says he may retire in two to four years and named several executives who could succeed him, according to Bloomberg.

Arista Networks this week lowered the latency and upped the software programmability of its switches with the introduction of the Arista 7150S series.

Looking to reverse the momentum of rivals Arista and Juniper in high-frequency trading, Cisco this week unveiled a new generation of ultra low-latency Nexus switches based on custom silicon.

Arista Networks this week lowered the latency and upped the software programmability of its switches with the introduction of the Arista 7150S series.

Juniper is working with other industry players on an open source-based controller for software-defined networks (SDN) that would be an alternative to proprietary offerings from VMware and Cisco.

Cisco this week introduced a set of security products designed to fortify data centers as they consolidate, virtualize and morph into clouds.

Brocade this week will fill out its data center fabric vision with a long-awaited chassis core switch designed for high-density 100G Ethernet.

High-profile Cisco officials who have left recently amidst shifting tides at the company

Juniper Networks is reportedly dropping the BitGravity content delivery networking (CDN) technology it licensed earlier this year and refocusing its CDN efforts.

Just when everyone was preparing for a crack, Cisco and VMware say they have expanded their strategic relationship to offer integrated products for cloud infrastructures.