In its latest salvo against Cisco Systems, HP launched its first network core switch to carry a lifetime warranty. The ProCurve Switch 8212zl is the first core switch built entirely on technology ...

Networking giant Cisco is shifting its core Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching certification to have a greater software emphasis by sharpening the focus on software-defined ...

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10G Ethernet vendor Force10 Networks is changing the operating system on its data center switches to NetBSD, an open source platform, with the aim of improving switch performance for customers. The ...

I'm not sure whether this question is best asked here or in the Networking forum, but since my question isn't about specific products I figured I'd start here. We're building a new datacenter at work ...

Our test of a Cisco Nexus 9516 with 1,024 fully loaded 50G Ethernet ports - the highest density core-switch test ever done by Network World - found it capable of handling the strain without dropping a ...

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A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. In many cases, that means bringing advanced functionality for all three – albeit in smaller ...