Gigabit Ethernet

Cisco Nexus 7000 aims for data center dominance

David Newman — 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

Building a big data center and looking for a switch to match? How do 256 10G Ethernet ports and nearly 1.7 terabits of capacity sound?

Alcatel-Lucent intros Gigabit Ethernet switches

Tim Greene — 2008-08-26T00:00:00Z

Alcatel-Lucent is delivering a new family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that fit into its architecture for blending data, voice and wireless connectivity and are designed for small and medium businesses.

Could 'fat-tree' switch setup be key to trimming data center costs?

Denise Dubie — 2008-08-22T00:00:00Z

University of California San Diego computer science professor Amin Vahdat and his students used the SIGCOMM 2008 conference in Seattle this week to propose a new way to build data centers that could save companies money and deliver more computing capabilities.

10 Gigabit Ethernet reaches two milestones

Jeff Caruso — 2008-08-21T00:00:00Z

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch market reached two milestones in the second quarter of this year, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group.

Bag of 10-Gigabit chips

Jeff Caruso — 2008-08-12T00:00:00Z

In a sign of building momentum toward higher-speed LANs, chip companies have been tripping over each other in recent days to announce their latest silicon supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

10 Gigabit switch unveiled for NEC blades

Jeff Caruso — 2008-07-29T00:00:00Z

Blade Network Technologies this week introduced Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches using 10 Gigabit Ethernet for NEC Sigmablade blade-server systems.

Foundry finds a buyer in Brocade

Jeff Caruso — 2008-07-22T00:00:00Z

I've followed Foundry Networks since its Gigabit Ethernet beginnings, in 1996. I visited its offices during the '90s boom years, when it was growing quickly along with the rest of the tech industry. I've seen it weather storms and mature into the company it is today. I guess somehow I expected or even hoped that Foundry would remain independent indefinitely.

I have not yet begun to network

Jeff Caruso — 2008-07-03T00:00:00Z

I recently stumbled across an announcement that the USS John Paul Jones, a destroyer in the U.S. naval fleet, will soon be acquiring a brand-new Gigabit Ethernet network.

Gigabit Ethernet powers computer clusters

Tim Greene — 2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

Gigabit Ethernet as a means to connect devices in data centers and storage facilities has earned another proof point -- a computing cluster in Germany that is linked by Gigabit Ethernet and that has ranked number 58 overall for performance among the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world.

HP ProCurve delivers Gigabit Ethernet to SMBs

Jim Duffy — 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

HP ProCurve this week unveiled Gigabit Ethernet switches for the small/medium business market.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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