Ethernet's 400-Gigabit challenge is a good problem to have

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	Ethernet's 400-Gigabit challenge is a good problem to have As it embarks on what's likely to be a long journey to its next big increase in speed, Ethernet is in some ways a victim of its own success. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Application Performance in a World of Cloud and Mobility Cloud, mobility, and networking have shifted the dynamics of application performance. As a result, IT is under more pressure than ever to improve application performance. Learn how to ensure that employees and customers can access applications effectively without being forced to expend more resources on network upgrades. Read more >> In this Issue ONF now looking northbound Juniper seeks edge router advantage over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access Dexter malware kills again How Avaya's Aura CE is impacting the communications-enabled app market The Open Cloud enables health information exchanges Cisco: We have no plans for "deep integration" with VMware's NSX World's craziest Halloween coffins 20 must-see products at DEMO 2013 Oracle plugs severe security holes that put systems at hijack risk Avaya Updates Collaboration Portfolio SDN networks transform Big Data into information capital WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology End-to-End Service Management for Unified Communications As part of Riverbed Performance Management solutions, Riverbed OPNET Unified Communications Xpert allows continuous monitoring of voice and video quality so you can catch and fix problems before they become an issue. View More ONF now looking northbound The Open Networking Foundation, a user-driven organization defining and promoting OpenFlow-based software-defined networks, has established a working group to define a "northbound" API between SDN controllers and applications. Read More Juniper seeks edge router advantage over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent Juniper Networks this week upgraded its MX service provider edge routers with expanded system capacity to enhance subscriber bandwidth and service performance. Read More Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access Alcatel-Lucent is offering its enterprise switch users a free software upgrade to converge wired Ethernet networks with wireless from Aruba Networks. Read More Dexter malware kills again Showtime's infamous serial killer Dexter may be gone but his equally nasty malware namesake is apparently still striking unsuspecting bank systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Starview Inc. Has SDN Driven any Significant Industry Change? In this exclusive digital report, industry experts catch you up on the status of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement and begin to lay out how you get there from here, examining basic planning, what to look for in an SDN controller, and discussing what the Open Networking Foundation hopes to achieve with its new migration group. View more How Avaya's Aura CE is impacting the communications-enabled app market Doesn't it seem like the UC industry has been talking about a world of communications-enabled applications for over a decade now? This is where in-house developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) will drop UC features into business applications to create new business processes and the companies that build them get a significant jump on the competition. Almost everyone I talk to agrees this... Read More The Open Cloud enables health information exchanges While everyone is up in arms about the operation or lack thereof of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) mandated Health Care Exchange, there is another health information exchange infrastructure being rolled out to comply with elements of ACA that is actually working. Powered by the Open Cloud by IBM and others, these new health information exchanges allow doctors and other health care providers... Read More Cisco: We have no plans for "deep integration" with VMware's NSX Last week I wrote about how one of Cisco's latest top of rack switches comes with some interesting functionality, namely the ability to support virtual networking overlay models such as VMware's NSX. [READ: Shh... Cisco's latest switch supports VMware's NSX ] Read More World's craziest Halloween coffins From KISS caskets to lions and airplanes, a plethora of burial boxes populate the world Read More WHITE PAPER: AppNeta AppNeta Trace View - Free Trial Download Want to try AppNeta in your own application environment? Install in 5 minutes! Learn More 20 must-see products at DEMO 2013 DEMO Fall 2013 kicks off this week, giving more than 40 startups and entrepreneurs the chance to introduce their products to the world. Read More Oracle plugs severe security holes that put systems at hijack risk Oracle fixed on Tuesday 127 security issues in Java, its database and other products, patching some flaws that could let attackers take over systems. Read More Avaya Updates Collaboration Portfolio Read More SDN networks transform Big Data into information capital SDN has huge potential to build the intelligent adaptive network for Big Data analytics. Due to the separation of the control and data plane, SDN provides a well-defined programmatic interface for software intelligence to program networks that are highly customizable, scalable and agile, to meet the requirements of Big Data on-demand. Read More
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