Monday, October 15, 2007

Extreme aims new switch at Cisco, HP gear; 10G Ethernet tests show promise for data centers

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LANs News Alert




Network World's LANs News Alert, 10/15/07

Extreme aims new switch at Cisco, HP gear, 10/09/07: Extreme Networks this week will unveil a new edge switch as well as software enhancements to help users deploy, operate and optimize the vendor’s gear.

10G Ethernet tests show promise for data centers, 10/09/07: Makers of 10G Ethernet products came away from a recent University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab plug fest with results they think will boost acceptance of the technology in corporate networks.

Can Energy Efficient Ethernet be applied to optical links?, 10/09/07: At last month's meeting of the IEEE study group exploring the possibilities of Energy Efficient Ethernet, the question of whether to define a standard for fiber optics came up.

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Motorola drags Symbol's Wi-Fi back to battle, 10/09/07: Motorola has refreshed the software for its wireless LAN switches in a bid to recapture ground it has lost to competitors, but should upgrade its architecture, say analysts.

Reaching for the sky with 3Gbps network path, 10/09/07: AARNet broke new ground yesterday when it provided a 3Gbps direct network path from three Australian radio telescopes across to Europe.

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