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April 5, 2010  10:57 AM

Is data center interconnect news worth a flogging?



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco, data center networks, MPLS, Routers, Virtualization, VMware, Wide area networks

Two months ago I wrote a story about Cisco's Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) data center interconnect technology, which Cisco claims can take a lot of complexity out of data center...

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July 28, 2009  2:44 AM

Computer networking trends 2009 from senior Burton Group analyst at Catalyst conference



Posted by: Tessa Parmenter
Catalyst, data center networks, IT trends, Networking, Telecom, Unified communications, Virtualization, Wide area networks, wireless LAN

The needs of the network are changing in 2009 as enterprises centralize their data centers, rely on fluid storage sources and depend more and more on wireless LANs instead of wired Ethernet. At this year's

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January 28, 2009  10:43 PM

AT&T climbs to top in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for global network service providers



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
AT&T, BT, Gartner, network service providers, Orange, Verizon, Wide area networks

Gartner has published its first Magic Quadrant for the global network service providers since the summer of 2007. As you probably know, the Magic Quadrant is a market assessment tool that rates vendors on their...

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January 22, 2009  7:44 PM

Riverbed gets Mazu Networks for a bargain



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Mazu, Network, Network Behavior Analysis, Riverbed, WAN optimization, Wide area networks

WAN optimization heavyweight Riverbed Technology gobbled up Mazu Networks this week for just $25 million in cash. Mazu is a privately held company that sells network behavior analysis (NBA) tools that analyze the...

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