Cisco Catalyst marries wired, wireless and SDN in one switch
Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments.
Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments.
NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments.
Extreme Networks is laying off 13% of its workforce, or about 90 employees, in an effort to reduce expenses by $7 million per quarter.
Network virtualization is one of the hotter trends in the industry today, and when Cisco speaks to it you hear a distinct LISP.
Cisco, the quintessential IT hardware maker, wants you to start thinking about it as software and services company.
Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch.
OpenFlow controller start-up Big Switch Networks this week said it closed a $25 million Series B funding round to continue the expansion of the engineering, sales and marketing operations.
Juniper Networks needs better marketing and execution, among other things, to turn its fortunes around.
After years of stagnant or lackluster growth, Extreme Networks tapped Oscar Rodriguez to bring new life to the switch maker in 2010. He scrutinized global operations, streamlined the product line and brought a new focus that he says will really come through this spring with a new wave of switches. Rodriguez shared his goals for Extreme in 2012 with Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix and Managing Editor Jim Duffy.
2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs and forced Cisco to scale back on its aggressive growth plans and tactics.
Alcatel-Lucent this week rolled out 40G Ethernet modules for its top-of-rack data center switches to help further its data center fabric strategy.
Avaya this week rolled out extensions to its 4000 series switches and said its year-old virtualized networking architecture is taking hold in campuses and data centers.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization, has implemented a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111909-100g-ethernet-cheatsheet.html">100G Ethernet network</a> to boost bandwidth for advanced data analysis.
Arista Networks this week has rolled out four switches and enhanced software designed to address the scalability, resilience and density requirements of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a>.
Despite a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111011-cisco-posts-small-revenue-252958.html">solid quarter</a> as evidence its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072011-cisco-job-cuts.html">turnaround plan</a> is working, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> still has more work to do to get where it wants to be.