<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102811-brocade-sale-252524.html">Brocade Networks</a> this week has unveiled switches for the enterprise campus designed to help users to affordably scale their networks.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> used to be a networking company, pure and simple. It built its dominance and influence on capturing a dominant market position in routers and switches, both in the enterprise and in service provider networks.
Juniper Networks this week said it is making the source code of its OpenFlow application accessible to developers of applications for its Junos networking operating system software.
If you're considering the move to 40/100gigabit Ethernet, here are five things to keep in mind:
Ten-gigabit Ethernet was so last year.
CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip video cam business and eliminated more than 12,000 jobs. His total pay package is down 32% compared to 2010, when Chambers received $18.9 million, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Things are about to get a little hotter for Cisco in the enterprise market.
<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.
A healthcare software provider has upgraded its Gigabit Ethernet network to improve service to customers and reduce errors during backup.
Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper.
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HP this week said it has expanded a trade-in program for customers looking to swap out Cisco switches for HP gear.
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 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.
It is by no means the largest or most sophisticated Cisco network there is -- yet the infrastructure implemented by Transplace is nonetheless a great example of the target application for Cisco's data center switches.