News

• Verizon looks to Alcatel's new core router for capacity, efficiency

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 May, 2012 07:45

  Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's upcoming 7950 XRS core routing system, which will bring the French-American equipment vendor into the carrier core routing business for the first time in about a decade.

• Verizon to offer 100G links, resilient mesh on optical networks

  By Stephen Lawson | 12 May, 2012 11:00

  Looking ahead to growing demand for bandwidth to feed large companies and computing clouds, Verizon Communications announced steps on Friday to increase the speed of the links its enterprise customers can buy and to make its network connections more resilient.

• Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 00:42

  Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.

• Cisco upgrades industrial Ethernet switches

  By Jim Duffy | 25 April, 2012 06:58

  Cisco this week unveiled an updated line of Ethernet switches for industrial environments, such as manufacturing floors.

• Avaya answers Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent with SMB switches

  By Jim Duffy | 25 April, 2012 01:40

  Avaya has unveiled low-end Ethernet switches for small and medium-sized enterprises and remote branches that include features usually found in higher-end enterprise-class switches.

• How we tested Arista's DCS-7508 switch

  By David Newman | 27 March, 2012 00:25

  We assessed the Arista DCS-7508 with tests of performance and power consumption. The performance tests used the Spirent TestCenter test instrument to measure layer-2 and layer-3 unicast throughput and latency; layer-2 and layer-3 multicast throughput and latency; OSPF equal cost multipath (ECMP); N+1 fabric failover; buffering capacity; OSPF routing capacity; and multi-chassis link aggregation (MLAG). All tests used version 4.8.4 of Arista's EOS software and Version 3.95 of Spirent TestCenter software.

• Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible

  By David Newman | 26 March, 2012 15:31

  Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch.

• Not-so-magic monitor, tiny routers and a kick-ass gaming headset

  By Keith Shaw | 23 March, 2012 03:32

  The scoop: MIMO MagicTouch 10-inch touch-screen USB monitor, by MIMO Monitors, about $300.

• Bowdoin students' love of Ocarina music app hasn't crashed the Wi-Fi

  By Matt Hamblen | 20 March, 2012 23:11

  Wi-Fi use has exploded on college campuses, and none more than Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

• Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good

  By Mark Gibbs | 15 March, 2012 10:51

  A few weeks ago here in the above ground portions of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker we got hooked on the British series "Downton Abbey".

• Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge

  By Jim Duffy | 15 March, 2012 02:07

  Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.

• Cisco Q4 Ethernet switch revenue up, HP's down

  By Jim Duffy | 25 February, 2012 04:41

  HP's Ethernet switch revenue dropped 5% in the fourth quarter vs. the fourth quarter of 2010, while market leader Cisco gained 3.3%, according to the latest IDC research.

• New Juniper routers converge the access net

  By Jim Duffy | 08 February, 2012 03:26

  Juniper Networks this week has unveiled access routers designed to provide an on-ramp to the service provider network from residential, business and mobile networks.

• Researchers layer an electronic junction into optical fiber

  By Joab Jackson | 07 February, 2012 05:41

  Pennsylvania State University researchers have devised a technique for embedding an electronic junction directly into optical fiber, which potentially paves the way for more streamlined optical components.

• HP takes giant first step into OpenFlow

  By Colin Neagle | 03 February, 2012 05:52

  HP this week said it is taking its first leap into OpenFlow-enabled network equipment, supporting the standard on 16 of its Ethernet switch products as it attempts to gain a foothold in a market likely to receive significant attention from competitors.