Data Networking
'Quantum network? We've had one for years,' says Los Alamos
Hiding its light under a concrete, titanium-lined bushel
Cisco borgs VHA packet core
Network upgrades prepping for 4G launch
Juniper betas Contrail control freak for software-defined nets
Interop 2013 Getting into the encrowdening field earlier than expected
HP revamps FlexFabric fixed and modular switches
New carrier-grade router and a virty one, too
A10 ships new iron, OS
Layer 4 connections per-second-per-Watt as a measure of green, anyone?
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
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
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
Arista wires software-defined networking into its kit
Joins rest of industry in collective hypegasm
IBM unfurls SDN network manager
If you've got it, Big Blue will manage it
Juniper goes skinny to pack routers into little racks
A central office router staff won't trip over
VMware NSX mashes up Nicira and homegrown network virt
Virtualizing entire data centers, including admins for systems and networks
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
HP brings wired and wireless nets under single SDN umbrella
Shiny stackable OpenFlow and hybrid wired/wireless switches
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.
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.
