I have a multipronged question, but first the goal. I just got a new NetApp and it has four shiny new 10GbE SFP+ ports on each controller, and I was planning on setting up an iSCSI network. If I set ...

Last week we brought you the story of how Nortel won a large contract with the City of San Jose, in Cisco’s backyard. This week we tell you how the company did it – and it involves a new 10 Gigabit ...

Growing demand for 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet is driving strong growth in Ethernet switching in enterprises, according to analysts at IDC. Revenues in the global Ethernet switch market hit a record $5 ...

Cisco’s Catalyst C1300-8MGP-2X enterprise-class Ethernet switch manages small and medium-sized networks at speeds up to 10Gb. It has eight wired interfaces, a 120W PoE, and two 10G SFP sockets. The ...

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Start-up Woven Systems this week is expected to launch its 10G Ethernet data center switch — a box the company says one-ups the switching power of Cisco, Force10 Networks and Foundry Networks 10G gear ...

We're upgrading some VMware hosts, and the new ones will have NICs that far outclass our core switches, which are Cisco 4500X series 10G switches, which have SFP+ ports. The new servers come with ...

Is Cisco gear high-priced but worth the investment because of quality support and advanced features -- or just plain high-priced? Cisco Systems Inc. is the dominant LAN switch vendor, both in the ...

We forecast Cisco’s network switches revenue to grow at a pace slower than the industry-wide growth. If Cisco’s switching revenues grow at a CAGR of around 1% over the next three years to around $15 ...