June 18, 2010 5:07 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
10 Gigabit Ethernet,
3Com,
Alcatel-Lucent,
Avaya,
Cisco,
data center networks,
Enterasys,
Extreme Networks,
Fibre Channel over Ethernet,
Force10,
Gartner,
HP Networking,
IP telepony,
Juniper,
LAN,
Magic Quadrant,
mergers & acquisitions,
NAC,
Networking,
nortel,
wireless LANGartner rolled out a new Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN this month and it looks remarkably similar to last year's, even though Gartner itself acknowledges that the network switching industry is...
May 28, 2009 7:31 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Ethernet,
Ethernet Alliance,
FCoE,
Fibre Channel over EthernetWhile walking the floor at Interop Las Vegas last week, I met with Brad Booth, chairman of the Ethernet Alliance, who demonstrated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). In this video, you can see how the Ethernet Alliance used priority flow...
April 23, 2009 4:29 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Broadcom,
Brocade,
Cisco,
converged Ethernet,
Emulex,
Ethernet,
FCoE,
Fibre Channel over Ethernet,
mergersBroadcom is making a $764-million hostile takeover bid for Emulex, a manufacturer of storage networking infrastructure, such as host bus adaptors and I/O controllers. Broadcom, a maker of wireless and wired networking semiconductors, appears to have Emulex's emergent