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• Data centers drove Ethernet sales in Q3, says IDC

  The growing popularity of 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet in data centers helped propel the entire Ethernet switch market during the third quarter, according to IDC.

• Alcatel-Lucent says focus on fast broadband, IP is key to comeback

  With its new-found focus on IP networking and fast broadband access, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to take advantage of a worldwide explosion in mobile devices and the rush of service providers and operators to the cloud, company executives said at the networking vendor's tech symposium this week.

• Arista fires broadside at Cisco/Insieme with new switches

  Kicking off a week that promises to be rich in data center and cloud networking news, Arista Networks today unveiled a new line of switches designed to bring programmable provisioning to smaller, more cost conscious deployments.

• Vulnerabilities in some Netgear router and NAS products open door to remote attacks

  Vulnerabilities in the management interfaces of some wireless router and network-attached storage products from Netgear expose the devices to remote attacks that could result in their complete compromise, researchers warn.

• D-Link to padlock router backdoor by Halloween

  D-Link will address by the end of October a security issue in some of its routers that could allow attackers to change the device settings without requiring a username and password.

• Cisco patches vulnerabilities in some security appliances, switches and routers

  Cisco Systems has released security patches for authentication bypass, command execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting products that use its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software, as well as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches and Cisco 7600 series routers.

• Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

  Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.

• HP opens up on SDNs

  HP this week is establishing an "open" approach to SDN intended to accelerate programmable network deployments and stimulate demand for its switches and routers.

• Cisco IOS updates fix 10 denial-of-service vulnerabilities

  Cisco Systems has patched 10 vulnerabilities that could impact the availability of devices using various versions of its IOS software.

• Cisco bets on new programmable 400G bps processor

  Cisco Systems has unveiled what it calls the world's most scalable and programmable network processor, the nPower X1, which handles 400G bps to keep up with increasing Internet traffic volume.

• Legal battle between Cisco and Multiven flares up with EU antitrust complaint

  The feud between Cisco Systems and maintenance service provider Multiven has come to Europe with the filing of a new antitrust compliant over how Cisco provides software updates.

• China's Huawei unveils SDN programmable switch, taking aim at Cisco

  Huawei Technologies is bringing its own "software-defined networking" switch globally in a bid to raise its profile and expand in a market dominated by Cisco.

• Google accounts for 25 percent of all Internet traffic, study finds

  The diversified range of new products being built and provided by Google now make the company accountable for nearly 25 percent of all Internet traffic, up from a mere 6 percent just three years ago, according to a new study.

• Facebook Open Compute project has "weaknesses," Cisco CEO says

  Facebook's Open Compute project, which is working on open source servers and switches, will be limited by "weaknesses" in scope that Cisco can exploit, CEO John Chambers said this week.

• Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs

  With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case.