Driven by 10G, Ethernet switches buck economic headwinds
The Ethernet switch market eked out modest growth in 2012 against the backdrop of an uncertain global economy, underscored by weakness in Europe and lower public sector spending.
The Ethernet switch market eked out modest growth in 2012 against the backdrop of an uncertain global economy, underscored by weakness in Europe and lower public sector spending.
West Virginia wasted millions in federal grant money when it purchased 1,164 Cisco routers for $24 million in 2010, a state audit concluded.
The so-called "Internet of everything," the rapidly approaching world where objects from refrigerators to factory robots can talk to people and other machines, will create a massive business opportunity worth US$14.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new study from Cisco Systems.
Cisco this week will fill out its programmable networking family with a new line of data center switches, cloud connectivity extensions and a software-based SDN controller.
Windows Server 8 looks promising enough that Cisco Systems is queuing up two new products designed to extend its network controls to Hyper-V virtual environments when Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 sometime next year.
Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper.
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire service fulfillment software assets from the UK subsidiary of Comptel, in an effort to help operators speed up the launch of new services.
The steep discounts that Purdue University recently received on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a>'s <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/77383">Nexus 7000 switches</a> are 'unusual' and based on factors that go beyond the purchase alone, Cisco says.
When you combine this week's layoffs with other recent restructuring, Cisco Systems has actually eliminated 12,050 jobs from its workforce, a reduction of 16.5 percent that includes the largest downsizing in the technology industry this year.
Cisco Systems will cut about 6,500 jobs as part of an effort to focus its business and reduce operating expenses by about US$1 billion per year, the company announced on Monday.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> Tuesday took dead aim at HP and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching platform.
Cisco announced its Android-based Cius tablet will finally go on sale for $750 on July 31.
In its second attempt to debase arguments that a multivendor network is more beneficial to users than a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012011-gartner-slams-cisco-single-vendor.html">single-vendor infrastructure</a>, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> this week hosted a webcast of two customers discussing the merits of their all-Cisco networks.
Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun's server hardware for the first time in three-and-a-half years, IDC reported Tuesday.
Cisco this week rolled out products and services designed to ease the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for enterprise customers.