News

• Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core

  By Jim Duffy | 07 May, 2012 20:33

  Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.

• Juniper joins Cisco, Enterasys in BYOD management fray

  By Jim Duffy | 04 May, 2012 01:28

  Juniper this week unveiled new and enhanced products designed to secure mobile device access to enterprise networks.

• Dissecting Cisco's FabricPath Ethernet technology

  By Jim Duffy | 30 March, 2012 07:26

  Cisco's FabricPath data center Ethernet technology is designed to combine traditional, Spanning Tree-based Ethernet with a next-generation architecture that uses a link-state protocol to allow for multiple active paths. Deploying multiple active paths in a data center network is required to flatten the infrastructure to reduce latency and better support traffic flow between server racks.

• Juniper buys web security company for $80 million

  By Jim Duffy | 23 February, 2012 04:33

  Juniper said this week it has acquired Mykonos Software, a provider of website and web application security software, for $80 million.

• Juniper: mobile malware acceleration grows

  By Nermin Bajric | 22 February, 2012 11:40

  Mobile malware has reached a new stage in maturation and acceleration.

• Juniper exec gives inside look at QFabric

  By John Dix | 16 February, 2012 11:36

  R.K. Anand, executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Networks' Data Center Business Unit, was employee No. 12 of the network startup back in 1996, leaving a job as a microprocessor designer at Sun Microsystems. Years later he left Juniper for a brief stint at another startup, but came back to help finalize the company's QFabric product and get it out the door. QFabric began shipping in September 2011. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Anand at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a deep dive on the company's answer to high-end data center demands.

• Training IT Professionals sold to Crystal Echo

  By Patrick Budmar | 03 February, 2012 09:16

  Training IT Professionals sold to Crystal Echo

• Juniper's financial challenges continue

  By Jim Duffy | 28 January, 2012 08:18

  Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.

• Juniper acquires BitGravity content technology, engineers

  By Jim Duffy | 24 January, 2012 00:27

  Juniper Networks has acquired technology and personnel from BitGravity, the content delivery networking (CDN) subsidiary of Tata Communications.

• Juniper vs. Palo Alto: Next-gen firewall legal brawl

  By Tim Greene | 20 December, 2011 10:44

  Juniper Networks says that Palo Alto Networks is infringing on its next-generation firewall technology, which was invented by Palo Alto's founders but for which Juniper holds the patents.

• Startup founded by ex-Cisco execs pushes software-defined networking

  By Jim Duffy | 13 December, 2011 08:25

  Software-defined networking startup Embrane this week came out of stealth mode to unveil its product and strategy for virtualizing network services.

• iiNet launches SMB Cloud services

  By ARN Staff | 30 November, 2011 10:19

  iiNet partners with VMware, IBM and Juniper

• Juniper unveils cloud-based lab for customer testing

  By Jim Duffy | 04 October, 2011 02:43

  Juniper is harnessing the cloud to make it easier and less expensive for customers to test its products.

• Juniper takes on Cisco, HP in 'simple' networking

  By Jim Duffy | 28 September, 2011 22:29

  Juniper this week unveiled a portfolio of switching, wireless and security products designed to enable enterprises to easily deploy them and then ensure management and security of all connected mobile devices.

• IN PICTURES: Networking professionals get connected at AusNOG-05

  By Patrick Budmar | 19 September, 2011 12:04

  The latest developments in the networking space are shared at annual conference in Sydney