Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Bringing smarter networks to industrial world

100G Ethernet cheat sheet; Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
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Bringing smarter networks to industrial world

A so-called "smart grid" is going to need smarter switches, and in fact all of industrial networking is headed in that direction, as Sixnet recently pointed out during the introduction of its latest switch. Read full story

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100G Ethernet cheat sheet
With enterprises and carriers moving beyond 1G and 10G Ethernet to 40G and 100G Ethernet, we thought it might be handy to bundle up our most recent coverage of high-speed Ethernet in one tidy package.

Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two companies said on Monday.

What's Next for Brocade?
I never really believed the rumors about HP buying Brocade. No disrespect to Brocade, I just thought that HP's interest was really in Ethernet and IP networking and not Fibre Channel. Will another company acquire Brocade? I can't think of any obvious takers.

Wide Area Ethernet – Key steps in the evolution
For the history of the telecommunications industry, there have been some schisms within the networking organization. One of the most fundamental was always between the "WAN" folks and the "LAN" folks. And there were good reasons.

Internet routing blasts into space
A radiation-proof Cisco router was sent into space today aboard an Intelsat satellite with the goal to set up military communications from space.

The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?
Columnist Scott Bradner tries to make sense of what the FCC is up to in addressing the broadband service gap in the United States.

Internet = InterNOT @ Interop
I was in New York last Wednesday, 11/18 for a one-day whirlwind tour of the Interop show floor. Sorry to say I did not have time to attend the keynote presentations, but my schedule only afforded enough time to catch up with the twenty or so management vendors who were exhibiting. Little did I know that I would be forced to live the day as one of the unfortunate - the "have-nots" - the "Internet unconnecteds."

Google adding IPv6 to YouTube
Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Broadband stimulus grants delayed
The two government agencies in charge of doling out broadband stimulus cash have pushed back the dates for when they'll start handing out grants.

Cisco survey finds business at a loss for remote access during loss
Companies are unprepared to enable most of their employees to telecommute during workforce disruptions such as transit failures or natural disasters, Cisco found in a recent nationwide survey on "Securing the Mobile Workforce."

November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page.

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November 24, 2009

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