HP puts speed at the core

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
09/29/05
Today's focus: HP puts speed at the core

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Today's focus: HP puts speed at the core

By Jeff Caruso

It has been almost three years since HP started talking about a
LAN equipment strategy that put intelligence at the edge of
networks rather than at the core. This week, the company filled
out the core.

As reported in Network World
<http://www.networkworld.com/nllan7883> the HP ProCurve group
introduced two switches whose job is really to sit at the core
of a LAN and move data quickly. Network World's Phil Hochmuth
points out that the switches are based on technology HP got from
Riverstone Networks last year.

The 8108fl and 8116fl InterConnect Fabric switches (HP indicates
there will be more members coming in this 8100fl family) take
blades of Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and they
have eight and 16 slots, respectively. With a port in each
blade, the switches are able to move traffic in a non-blocking
way.

Meanwhile, HP continued to beef up its offerings at what it
calls the intelligent edge, this time with a switch that
supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), the ProCurve Switch
2600-8-PWR. It's a stackable switch - one of many in HP's
line-up - with eight 10/100M bit/sec PoE ports and one Gigabit
uplink.

PoE is used for powering IP phones, wireless access points and
other equipment over the same wire that delivers communications.

Back when HP was originally touting the intelligence-at-the-edge
strategy <http://www.networkworld.com/nllan7884>, it said a
primary driver was the user focus - that is, the edge equipment
handles the authentication of the users connected to it. That
way, users are cleared as they first enter the network and then
given the appropriate privileges. The core equipment then can
focus on speed.

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To contact: Jeff Caruso

Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World.
He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing,
and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs
newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him
at <mailto:jcaruso@nww.com>
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