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• 10 GbE and Wi-Fi Growing Fast Year over Year
  Fri, 25 May 2012
  The gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch market grew to $5.1 billion in the first quarter of 2012 with 10GbE clearly in the driver's seat. Wireless WLAN sales continue to impress but carrier spending on Ethernet is basically flat.
  
• Taking ADCs to the Next Level
  Thu, 24 May 2012
  F5's latest application delivery controller, the Viprion 4480, is aimed at large enterprises, carriers, and cloud providers looking to upgrade to 40GbE and segregate their customers via virtualization and charge for services accordingly.
  
• Brocade Proposes Hybrid Software Defined Network Approach
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 24 May 2012
  

  You don't have to go OpenFlow or nothing anymore either as a new hybrid approach debuts.

  
  
• Is the Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS the Most Powerful Router on Earth?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 23 May 2012
  

  Alcatel-Lucent's new 32 terabit per second new core router can handle 160 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet. Will it be enough to de-throne the Juniper T4000 and the Cisco CRS-3?

  
  
• Brocade Accelerates SDN to 100Gbps
  Wed, 23 May 2012
  You don't have to go OpenFlow or nothing anymore as Brocade debuts a new hybrid approach that allows for selective use of OpenFlow alongside existing routers.
  
• Alcatel-Lucent Aims at Core Routing
  Tue, 22 May 2012
  Alcatel-Lucent's new 32 terabit per second new core router can handle 160 ports of 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) as Alcatel-Lucent aims to take share from Cisco and Juniper.
  
• VIDEO: Big Switch Co-Founder Kyle Forster
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 22 May 2012
  

  Co-founder of networking startup Big Switch Networks explains what his company is doing with software defined networking (SDN) and open source makes working their offering more interoperable and easy to integrate.

  
  
• Virtual Machines put the 'Fun' in Dysfunctional
  Tue, 22 May 2012
  Although server virtualization has by most accounts reached the mainstream of IT, best practices for their management and administration have yet to do so, writes Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates.
  
• Juniper Enhances Juonsphere with GUI for Cloud Based Network Modelling
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 21 May 2012
  

  You don't need your own lab to test and build an software defined networking (SDN) deployment anymore.

  
  
• The OpenFlow Revolution is a Big Switch
  Mon, 21 May 2012
  Co-founder of networking startup Big Switch Networks explains what his company is doing with software defined networking (SDN) and open source makes working their offering more interoperable and easy to integrate.
  
• OpenFlow Moves Forward with 1.3.0 Protocol Specification
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 18 May 2012
  

  OpenFlow 1.3.0 provides a stable base for the next generation of software defined networking, IPv6 and Provider Backbone Bridging
  

  
  
• Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow can Provide Real Security
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 15 May 2012
  

  Indiana University Chief Network Architect, explains how he has deployed OpenFlow to secure a 120,000 user network.

  
  
• Alternatives to Spanning Tree Protocol. Will Trill or Shortest Path Bridging Win Out?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 14 May 2012
  

  TRILL and shortest path bridging or SPB are emerging as challengers to spanning tree and none too soon for networking engineers wrestling cloud deployments into submission.

  
  
• HP Advances Virtual Application Networking Vision
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 14 May 2012
  

  HP's networking chief want to see the command line interface for networking gear go away.

  
  
• VMware Takes Aim at Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 14 May 2012
  

  VMware doesn't just want your servers virtualized, they want software define your network but they are taking a different approach than Cisco, HP and others that have embraced OpenFlow.

  
  
• Avaya: It's Time for Cloud Easy
  Thu, 10 May 2012
  

  Avaya general manager details a path for 'cloud-easy.' Hint: It's about faster networks, identities, and focusing on apps and devices.

  
  
• F5 Gets SPDY
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 09 May 2012
  

  F5 is taking Google's SPDY protocol beyond browsers
  

  
  
• Unicorns or the Cloud: What is Real?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 09 May 2012
  

  Everyone is talking about 'The Cloud' but fewer people than you might think have actually adopted it or are willing to take on the migration.

  
  
• WildPackets Omnipeek 6.8 Delivers IPv6 Traffic Forensics
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 08 May 2012
  

  With dual-stack and tunneled deployment, getting visibility into IPv6 hasn't always been easy.

  
  
• Alcatel-Lucent Bets on 40G and Shortest Path Bridging
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 08 May 2012
  

  TRILL vs. Shortest Path Bridging. Who will be the winner?

  
  
• INTEROP: Networking Gets Software Defined and Goes BYOD
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 08 May 2012
  

  The new general manager of Interop aims for more community involvement as network virtualization, BYOD and software defined networking (SDN) take center stage in Sin City.

  
  
• Riverbed Takes Aim at Virtual Traffic Acceleration
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 07 May 2012
  

  Riverbed and VMware have teamed up to optimize virtual machine traffic between dispersed data centers.

  
  
• Server Racks Go Open Source with Open Rack
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 03 May 2012
  

  With Open Rack think of it as trying to bring the promise of blade servers, but doing it at the rack level and doing it in open source

  
  
• What Is the Difference Between NAC and BYOD?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 03 May 2012
  
  
• Alcatel-Lucent Growing IP Share, Losing on Wireless
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 30 Apr 2012
  

  Another tough quarter for telco vendor as market conditions become increasingly challenging

  
  
• VeriSign Backing 220 New Top Level Domain Applicants
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 30 Apr 2012
  

  Revenues rise as demand for domain names new and old continues to grow