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.
<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.
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.
If you're in the market for Ethernet switches, now's the time to buy.
HP and Cisco are currently embroiled in a war of words, market share and revenue in Ethernet switching overall, but can HP really put up much of a fight in the data center?
Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper.
Brocade has unveiled an infrastructure procurement model designed for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a>, along with additions to its new VDX <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111510-brocade-switches.html">switch line</a>.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041411-open-flow.html">OpenFlow</a> promises to make networking more programmable, and one early user is reaping the initial benefits.
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.
HP this week said it has expanded a trade-in program for customers looking to swap out Cisco switches for HP gear.