Data Networking
Intel demos inexpensive 100Gb/sec silicon photonics chip
Breakthrough will speed system-to-system data center links
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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
Oracle gussies up Xsigo switching as Virtual Networking and SDN
Lashes new Sparc T5 and M5 servers to each other and storage
Alcatel-Lucent uncloaks its software-defined network tech
Troubled company dispatches SDN lifeboat named Nuage Networks
Virty network whisperer Midokura takes VC cash
Skeptical SDN punters unlikely to start paying en masse till 2014
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
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 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
Upstart Aerospoke flings NoSQL ninja star into data-centre rings
Ouch! Right in the topology
Microwaves thrash fibre on speed... if you like two-nines uptime
Radio network between stock exchanges hits 357 million MPH
Mellanox pumps up channel for InfiniBand, Ethernet pushes
Trying to pull in more biz to fill in revenue hole
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
Linaro Linux-on-ARM effort sets sights on network gear
PowerPC, x86, and MIPS can run, but they can't hide
From stage to stream: The unseen tech at the BRIT Awards 2013
Feature You'll never moan about the price of Thunderbolt cables again
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
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
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.
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.
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.
