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Software defined networking works up a head of steam

Automation takes over the data centre

Juniper future-proofs 'programmable' switches in Cisco battle

EX9200 40GE modular switches will ramp to 100GE later this year
Xsigo Systems VP780 and VP560 I/O Directors

Oracle gussies up Xsigo switching as Virtual Networking and SDN

Lashes new Sparc T5 and M5 servers to each other and storage

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.
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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

Microwaves thrash fibre on speed... if you like two-nines uptime

Radio network between stock exchanges hits 357 million MPH
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Mellanox SwitchX-2 ASIC and its switches, not to scale

Mellanox pumps up channel for InfiniBand, Ethernet pushes

Trying to pull in more biz to fill in revenue hole
Dlink Index

Drilling into a half-decent gigabit small-biz switch... from D-Link

Review The DGS-3420-28TC isn't from Cisco and I'm OK with this
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Linaro Linux-on-ARM effort sets sights on network gear

PowerPC, x86, and MIPS can run, but they can't hide
BRIT Awards 2013 pass

From stage to stream: The unseen tech at the BRIT Awards 2013

Feature You'll never moan about the price of Thunderbolt cables again
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The wireless card for the HP 10500/7500 modular switches

HP brings wired and wireless nets under single SDN umbrella

Shiny stackable OpenFlow and hybrid wired/wireless switches
The Register breaking news

Virtual Instruments plans probe 'n' sniff tools for Ethernet networks

Fibre Channel networking probester Virtual Instruments is going to expand into Ethernet-based file network probing and analysis, according to the 451 analysis group. The analysts also reckon an IPO is coming but said that Ethernet switching speed freak Arista is set on entering Ethernet network analysis too, giving VI real competition in the Ethernet space.

Intel pits QDR-80 InfiniBand against Mellanox FDR

As Joe Yaworski, fabric product marketing manager at Intel, put it to El Reg, the next frontier of system innovation will be in fabrics. As we see it, that frontier may also be the front line of the InfiniBand war between Mellanox and Intel – with one upcoming battle being the former's 56Gb/sec interconnects versus Intel's new QDR-80.
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Arista wants to DANZ for high freaky traders

Arista Networks, the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Andy Bechtolsheim, is chasing a new market by reversing the polarity on its Ethernet switches, turning them into packet sniffers that feed into network analyzer equipment instead of packet shufflers.