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• 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. 

• Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking

  Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and application access, availability and management support.

• How we tested cloud management

  The machines used included two Dell 1950s (one has 16GB RAM, other has 8GB, both have eight cpu cores), one HP DL585 G5 (32GB RAM, 16 cpu cores), one HP DL580 G5 (32GB RAM, 16 cpu cores), Dell Optiplex 740 (three-core AMD, 4GB RAM).  

• Cisco to pay up to $US112 million in Power-over-Ethernet patent case

  Network-1 Security Solutions, an acquirer and licensor of intellectual property, says it has settled its Power-over-Ethernet patent infringement case against Cisco and five other companies.

• Extreme Networks enables transition to cloud networks

  Extreme Networks is offering next-generation data centre products to enable the migration to virtualised data centres and new infrastructure solutions that feature high scalability, performance and simplicity.

• Ethernet aimed at data center virtual machines

  Combatants in the data center wars keep reloading. This week, two switching vendors -- Extreme Networks and Voltaire -- unveiled Ethernet gear designed to support the growing number of virtual machines moving around data centers, and provide a bridge to legacy environments such as Infiniband.

• Extreme Networks replaces CEO, lays off 70

  Ethernet switch vendor Extreme Networks is replacing its CEO and laying off 70 employees in an effort to quickly improve the company's bottom line and set it up to run profitably with lower revenues.