Nokia Siemens Networks has lost yet another auction for some of Nortel's assets
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.
Total 10 Gigabit Ethernet revenues grew 10% to $737 million during the quarter
The Ethernet switch market grew for the second consecutive quarter during the third quarter of this year, driven by continued strength in data center deployments, according to Dell’Oro Group.
Alcatel-Lucent and data services provider Equinix have developed a program aimed at helping Ethernet carriers interconnect their networks.
The researchers say their PortLand software will enable Layer 2 data center network fabrics scalable to 100,000 ports and beyond
University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center networks massively scalable.
The $62 million comes courtesy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be used to create new jobs for network and software engineers at Berkeley Lab
Looking to build a blazing Ethernet network that will exclusively support science research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is receiving US$62 million to develop what it calls the world's fastest computer network.
Minimizing latency cited as key differentiator in buying decision by stock exchange
Juniper Networks has landed perhaps its most significant enterprise customer to date, as the New York Stock Exchange plans to deploy hundreds of the company's switches for a time-sensitive, low-latency 10Gbps Ethernet network.
A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go unused
A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go unused, because Wi-Fi has become so prevalent.
Experimental optical chip is efficient enough to reach terabit speeds
Danish and Australian researchers have developed a chip that efficiently reads 640Gbps optical transmissions and could help pave the way to terabit Ethernet.
NEC is developing a system that can extend the conventional PCI Express interface found in most PCs and servers over standard Ethernet.
NEC is developing a system that can extend the conventional PCI Express interface found in most PCs and servers over standard Ethernet to distances of 2 kilometers or more.
Cisco, others roll out pre-standard gear and see need to go beyond specs
Even though strides are being made to define standards for extending Ethernet to handle data center applications, these advances will not be a panacea, vendors say.
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