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• Megaport eyes Asia Pacific

  Australian network interconnection services provider Megaport has plans to introduce its 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network across Asia Pacific.

• Cisco betters its best-selling Catalyst Ethernet switch

  Cisco this week upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance.

• Electromagnetic interference and 10GBase-T in the data center

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• 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.

• Dell enters converged networking market

  Dell entered the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market last week with OEM deals from Brocade and QLogic and endorsed 10Gigabit Ethernet as a customer's technology of choice.

• How to: Upgrade to Gigabit Networking for Better Speed

  The speed of your network affects nearly every device on your home network, whether it be a home-theater PC, an external storage device, or a gaming console. For most networks, the transfer rate of a faster ethernet connection (roughly 12.5 megabits per second) is the typical speed limit. That may be okay for transferring ordinary files, but it's painfully slow if you're trying to back up a PC to a network device, for example, or to stream a high-definition movie to your living room.

• Gigabit Ethernet fit for a tank

  Ethernet continues to go places its inventors probably never imagined.

• Alcatel to push 100G to carrier edge

  Alcatel-Lucent plans to ship a router module next year that supports the emerging 100Gb per second Ethernet standard at the edge of carrier networks, where services are delivered to subscribers.

• 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

  IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.

• Study: 10G, 40G Ethernet to grow rapidly despite economy

  A troubled economy won't be enough to sink increased enterprise demand for high-bandwidth Ethernet services, says a new report from Infonetics Research.

• Juniper cranks up security gateways for 10G Ethernet

  Juniper this week is introducing a family of flexible, high-speed security gateways that scale to handle massive traffic streams in the largest corporate networks via gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet ports.

• Could 'fat-tree' switch setup trim data center costs?

  Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts.