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Heavenly networker Pertino pockets $20m to take on Cisco Meraki

Cloud Network Engine powers up for epic battle

Mellanox to open up its Ethernet networking stack

Time for Ethernet to steal something else – open source – from InfiniBand

Opinion

Some network cables

Soz, switch-fondlers: Doesn't look like 2013 is 10Gb Ethernet's year

It is becoming increasingly unlikely that 2013 will be the year that sees widespread adoption of 10 gigabit Ethernet. Of course we'll be told it will be, just as we have been told for years that wholesale shift is right on the horizon. The reason? It's not a question of technological capability – the technology for 10GbE has been solid for quite some time – but rather a simple question of cost.
cisco house front view
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Cisco hits the roof in Olympics marketing dash

Cisco has thrown open its Olympics hospitality suite, giving partners and customers both a panoramic view of the Olympic Park and an up-close, 3D view of Stephen Fry loitering on a London Underground platform.

Exercises to keep your data centre on its toes

Given the size of networks today, networking should be open to promote interoperability, affordability and competition among suppliers to provide the best products.

News

Mellanox shoots higher and lower with long-haul switches

Adding MetroDX for campus and a MetroX that spans 100km

Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth

Feature Bob Metcalfe: How Token Ring and 'IBM's arrogance' nearly sank Big Blue
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Big Switch Networks logo

Intel stuffs more dough down Big Switch Network's trousers

Here's $6.5m more – now that is a respectable SDN wad

Dell: May the Force 10 (Gigabit Ethernet) be with your CAT6 cables

Embeds OpenFlow control freakage in two 10GE switches
The RackSwitch GS8264T, top, and the RackSwitch GS8264CS, bottom

IBM rounds out 10GE/40GE RackSwitches with a switch hitter

Adding converged Fibre Channel and pushing 10GBase-T ports

Bug kills Intel gig-E controllers

Star2Star CTO Kristian Kielhofner has identified a buggy implementation the Intel 82574L Ethernet controller that makes some kit subject to a “packet of death” that hangs the port receiving the packet.
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Oracle ponies up $2.1bn for Acme Packet to bully its way into unified comms

If Oracle sees a good idea and a pile of money sitting underneath it, and that idea is adjacent to something Oracle is already doing, then cofounder and CEO Larry Ellison gets out a bigger pile of money and pounces. And that is precisely what Oracle has done with its first big deal of 2013 as it snaps up unified communications software maker Acme Packets for $2.1bn.
The big bad Nexus 6004 40GE fixed port switch

Cisco revs up Nexus switches to 40GE with fresh ASICs

Cisco has vowed to push 40GE Ethernet switches into the mainstream while also improving its 10GE/40GE Nexus boxes.