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April 12, 2011  8:59 AM

Cisco flings aside the Flip



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco, Cius, Flip, Networking

Just days after CEO John Chambers promised Cisco employees that Cisco would become more disciplined and focused on the company's core businesses of routing and switching, data centers, video and collaboration, Cisco began jettisoning its consumer businesses. Last week Cisco

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April 7, 2011  1:40 PM

New modular campus edge switches feature app-smart ASICs



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
ASICs, campus networks, Enterasys, modular switches, Networking, stackable switches

I'm cleaning out my reporter's notebook, including a briefing I recently had with Enterasys Networks. Enterasys has launched a new family of modular campus edge switches with its home-grown, application-smart ASIC, the CoreFlow2.  These K Series switches complement the company's stackable...

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April 6, 2011  3:40 PM

Cisco’s troubles: Start talking to more network engineers



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Borderless Networks, Cisco, cisco switching, Networking, Routing and switching

Reuters got its hands on an internal memo that Cisco CEO John Chambers emailed to all of Cisco's employees, a memo that was possibly meant to leak into the media and to Cisco's customers. Mission...

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March 31, 2011  12:35 PM

ASA firewall services module for Catalyst 6500



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Catalyst 6500, Cisco, cisco nexus 1000v, cisco switching, data center networks, firewalls, Networking, Nexus

For networking pros who want to segment and secure internal traffic, the Firewall Services Module (FWSM) for the Catalyst 6500 chassis has been a workhorse. But given that it's based on Cisco's old...

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February 17, 2011  2:07 PM

Virtualization security: Juniper integrates Altor acquisition into SRX platform



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Check Point, Cisco, firewalls, Juniper, Network security, Networking, virtualization network, virtualization security

In data centers virtualization has created a bit of a network security black hole for engineers. Firewalls have no problem applying and enforcing security policies to server-to-server traffic in a data center, but traffic between virtual machines (VMs) on a virtualized server is another story. A...

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February 7, 2011  11:53 AM

Extreme offers software workaround for spanning tree bandwidth trouble



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
converged networks, data center networks, Extreme Networks, Networking, shortest path bridging, spanning tree protocol, TRILL

As the IETF and the

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February 2, 2011  5:23 PM

Data center fabric convergence: Many take the iSCSI route



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
converged networks, data center networks, FCoE, Gartner, iSCSI, NAS, Networking, Storage

Apparently attendees at Gartner's Data Center Summit held in Las Vegas last month weren't too enthusiastic on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as an avenue toward data center network convergence. In a...

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January 28, 2011  4:51 PM

TRILL versus Shortest Path Bridging: Hard feelings?



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
data center networks, Ethernet, IEEE, IETF, NANOG, Networking, shortest path bridging, TRILL

Is TRILL a "terrible idea?" Does Shortest Path Bridging rule? I have no clue. TRILL (Transparent Interonnection of Lots of Links) and 802.1aq...

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December 16, 2010  12:05 PM

Used network hardware vendor sees green shoots in 2011



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
10 Gigabit Ethernet, Catalyst, Cisco, data center networks, Networking, used network equipment

Network Hardware Resale (NHR), the leading reseller of used Cisco gear, says that companies are unfreezing their budgets and investing in new networks. The firm thinks that this is an early indicator of accelerated economic...

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December 15, 2010  4:57 PM

An inside look at Juniper Networks



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Juniper Networks, Networking

Fortune magazine published a Q&A with Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson that offered a several bits of information that I found interesting. Here's what Johnson, a former...

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