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.
Alcatel-Lucent this week confirmed it is "exploring strategic options" for its Enterprise business, a non-core asset that's been reported to be shopped around for a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042611-alcatel-lucent-enterprise.html">possible sale</a>.
<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.
In an effort to thwart the momentum of Arista Networks and IBM's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/101410-blade-ibm-ethernet-switch.html">BLADE Network Technologies business</a>, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> this week announced what it claims is the first high-performance trading fabric optimized for the financial markets industry.
Even though sales of Layer 2/3 <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/ethernet-switch.html">Ethernet switches</a> declined 12% sequentially in the first quarter, sales of 10 Gigabit top-of-rack switches are expected to jump 51% to $1 billion this year, according to Dell'Oro Group.
Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show.
LAS VEGAS -- Current networks inhibit large-scale data centers, which require new fabric architectures, a Juniper official said during his keynote address at the Interop conference today.
The IEEE standards body is forming a committee to assess the future bandwidth needs of large organizations and service providers, with an eye toward next steps in Ethernet standards.
Brocade today unveiled its plan for migrating customers to distributed, virtualized, Cloud-based data centers, along with products supporting that plan.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/121809-avaya-closes-nortel-deal.html">Avaya</a> this week will extend it <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> networking line and architecture with a new top-of-rack switch.
With a new industry organization to promote it, routing protocol OpenFlow is about to give users unprecedented ease of control over the way their networks operate.
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Actor/Twitter powerhouse <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/118727/20110304/facebook-charlie-sheen-commencement-speaker-george-washington-university-georgia-west-chester.htm">Charlie Sheen might be the people's choice for commencement speaker</a> at some colleges this spring, but many schools are lining up a more serious A-List of technology industry bigwigs to send the Class of 2011 off into the world.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> Tuesday announced a slew of routers and switches designed to address the explosion of home networked devices, from <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> to table computers to Internet-enabled TVs.
Last week's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> splash from <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/033011-cisco-nexus-datacenter-switches.html">Cisco</a> means customers can now begin to implement the company's fabric technology just about end-to-end, from the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a> network interface card to the network core.