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• Cisco's 'Jawbreaker' seen as response to competitive pressure

  Why would Cisco be developing a new data center fabric product line based on merchant silicon when its Nexus switches and FabricPath software are already available? 

• Juniper leapfrogs Cisco with QFabric data center

  Juniper Networks today announced the results of $100 million in research and development: a new architecturefor data center infrastructure called QFabric

• Cisco's moment of truth

  Cisco achieved a milestone in its most recent fiscal quarter, one with profound implications for the future of the company: Cisco made more money from its new products and services than it did from routers and switches.

• HP accuses Cisco of diverting data center standard

  Networking rivals HP and Cisco have abandoned their common ground in data center switching, with HP accusing Cisco of diverting an IEEE standard and Cisco insisting that customers drove the change.

• Cisco compacts Catalyst switches

  Cisco this week is rolling out two lines of Catalyst Ethernet switches in compact form factors intended for deployment in workgroups closer to users vs. wiring closets.

• HP’s green switch modules support Energy Efficient Ethernet standard

  HP this week refreshed its high-end chassis Ethernet switches with modules that conform to the IEEE’s Energy Efficient Ethernet standard for reducing power consumption.

• Enterasys rolls out data center manager

  Enterasys Networks this week is unveiling a management system designed to provide visibility, automation and control over physical and virtual data center resources.

• Brocade data center switches take on Cisco, Juniper

  Brocade this week will introduce switches that will let users build a flat, multipath network for virtualized data center environments.

• Cisco bolsters branch switches, routers

  Cisco Tuesday announced a doubly powerful Catalyst Ethernet switch, a condensed edge router and a slew of other new and enhanced products designed to help companies extend more powerful networking services to branch offices and beyond.

• IBM buys into data center switching with Blade acquisition

  HEAD: IBM buys into data center switching with Blade acquisition

• The Microsofting of Juniper Networks

  SAN JOSE -- The Microsoft pedigree of senior executives at Juniper Networks has infused a new software centrism within the routing and switching company.

• Brocade's performance uneven of late

  Brocade's announcement of 100G Ethernet routers and modules comes at a time when the company has had uneven results in Ethernet and IP since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008 for $2.6 billion.

• Brocade rolls out 100G Ethernet at $100K per port

  Brocade this week entered the 100Gbps Ethernet arena with a high-density router and module for service providers and data centers, as well as a management application for converged infrastructures.

• Next-generation Ethernet interfaces

  For the first time in its history, the IEEE has released two Ethernet standards simultaneously: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE), both defined by the 802.3ba Task Force.

• 10G Ethernet vendor Myricom taps new CEO, expands beyond HPC

  Myricom, a pioneer in high performance computing that has shifted its focus to more mainstream networking applications in recent years, has named co-founder Nan Boden as its new president and CEO.