Ethernet Switch - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise

  Things are about to get a little hotter for Cisco in the enterprise market.

• HP aims high with top-of-rack 10G Ethernet switch

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/092211-hp-board-ousts-apotheker-whitman-251161.html">HP</a> this week is rolling out an array of networking products for the enterprise campus, branch and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a>, including a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/091911-hp-data-center-switching-250991.html">switch that fills a major gap</a> in the company's offerings.

• Cisco loses out as Brocade wins healthcare software company business

  A healthcare software provider has upgraded its Gigabit Ethernet network to improve service to customers and reduce errors during backup.

• Cisco unveils routers, takes swipe at Juniper

  Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper.

• Electromagnetic interference and 10GBase-T in the data center

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• HP extends Cisco switch trade-in program

  HP this week said it has expanded a trade-in program for customers looking to swap out Cisco switches for HP gear.

• Juniper's disappointing quarter not due to switching

  No one can blame enterprise switching for Juniper's disappointing second-quarter results. Sales of Juniper's EX switches were up 18% year-over-year, switching overall was up 33%, and enterprise sales were up 9% due to strength in enterprise switching and routing products.

• Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers

  Enterasys this week rolled out software that allows network admins to access its management system via social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com's Chatter.

• Startup rolls out 40G data center switches at Interop

  LAS VEGAS -- Tucked way in the back corner of the exhibition floor in a tiny cubicle, Gnodal Limited, a startup data center switch vendor from Bristol, U.K., unveiled its initial Ethernet offerings at Interop 2011 this week.

• Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center

  LAS VEGAS -- Current networks inhibit large-scale data centers, which require new fabric architectures, a Juniper official said during his keynote address at the Interop conference today.

• Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center

  LAS VEGAS - At Interop this week, Extreme Networks rolled out two new switches designed to migrate users from legacy data center infrastructures into cloud computing environments. 

• Brocade fleshes out cloud strategy for battle with Cisco, others

  Brocade today unveiled its plan for migrating customers to distributed, virtualized, Cloud-based data centers, along with products supporting that plan.

• Networking, telecom leaving VCs cold

  The overall amount of venture capital invested in startups is on the rise, though the networking and telecom industries haven’t been big contributors of late.

• Alcatel-Lucent takes up data center arms against Cisco, others

  Cisco and other data center network combatants best prepare for an onslaught of meshes and pods.

• Force10 S4810 data center switch

  High port density, high throughput, and very low latency are bedrock requirements in the data center, and Force10's new S4810 top-of-rack switch delivers on all three counts.