<a href="http://www.infoblox.com/en/home.html">Infoblox</a> is adding two new features to its DNS appliances to help its service provider and enterprise customers transition to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a>, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
OpenDNS, one of the Internet's most popular free DNS services, is now offering production-grade support for IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4.
Juniper Networks this week is rolling out its first dedicated line of enterprise edge routers, a collection of products that borrow technology from the company's powerful service provider routers and that will give customers a new alternative to Cisco ASR gear.
For the second time in a month, Louisiana-based carrier CenturyLink made a major acquisition that will put it in a strong position to become a big-time player in the enterprise broadband market.
Verizon this morning acknowledged that its 4G LTE network was not working for users across the U.S. after reports trickled in overnight about a nationwide outage.
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.
<strong>What is OpenFlow?</strong>
Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that access to the Web should now be considered a basic right.
Internet2 has been around for 15 years, but it’s roots go back to NFSnet, which was officially turned on in 1986. Here are some other key moments in the history of Internet2.
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 new switching company is about to emerge with big plans for adding the OpenFlow protocol to your network. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/big-switch-networks">Big Switch Networks</a> just received <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/morning_call/2011/03/big-switch-networks-gets-138m-funding.html">$13.8 million in new funding</a>.
<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.
Sprint and Google are apparently going to be working close by each other in addition to more closely together.
BOSTON--<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> researchers are experimenting with a programmable, low-cost prototype switch they say could help support cloud or other <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032211-trill-ietf-data-center.html">network-delivered services</a>.