Wi-Fi-enabled consumer electronics wave is building momentum

10/09/08

Research firm In-Stat is saying that shipments of consumer electronics devices with Wi-Fi capabilities will reach almost 1 billion per year by the year 2012.

Another blade server vendor turns to Blade Network Technologies

10/07/08

Blade Network Technologies recently extended its switching technology to another blade server vendor, providing another example of Blade's pervasiveness in this niche.

Nortel gets more out of fiber

10/02/08

Nortel this week unveiled a system for getting more bandwidth from fiber-optic lines that are run from service providers to individual homes and businesses.

FCoE interoperability tests completed

09/30/08

The Fibre Channel Industry Association completed a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) plugfest earlier this month at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab, giving Fibre Channel vendors the chance to test interoperability.

Nortel hangs 'for sale' sign on metro Ethernet unit

09/25/08

Nortel is looking to improve its financial picture and sell off its Metro Ethernet Networks unit, one of its four divisions, to raise cash and shift its technological focus.

IEEE task forces move forward on Ethernet standards

09/23/08

IEEE task forces made progress on Power over Ethernet Plus, 10G Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, Energy-Efficient Ethernet and Higher-Speed Ethernet at the 802.3 interim meetings last week.

New sensor network architecture for military unveiled

09/18/08

Mercury Computer Systems this week introduced a sensor network architecture for use by the military on the "next-generation" battlefield.

Webcast provides primer on PoE and PoE Plus

09/16/08

Network World has posted an interesting Webcast on Power over Ethernet, and it's a good overview of where the technology and standard are today, with a look ahead at PoE Plus.

Category-300?

09/11/08

This has got to be the biggest Ethernet cable on record.

Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force nears Draft 1.0

09/09/08

The IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force is nearing a Draft 1.0 specification, getting closer to making network communications a bit greener.

Service providers loading up on IP routers

09/04/08

Infonetics Research this week gave an update on the service-provider router market, which continued to grow at a rapid pace in the second quarter of this year.

'Conventional' approaches to networking

09/02/08

One of the most interesting areas of networking is the construction of a high-speed network for a single event - with all of the hardware, software, planning and hard work that go into building the network, running it for a week or less, and then tearing it down. Behind the conventions for the country's two major political parties currently in the news are impressive, large-scale networks - and temporary.

Switches for SMBs

08/28/08

Adtran and Alcatel-Lucent this week separately rolled out switches aimed at small and midsize businesses.

802.11n: Game-changer

08/26/08

I've previously written about how the rise of wireless LAN equipment using the IEEE 802.11n standard is becoming a force to be reckoned with, and new data shows that the rate of migration to the new equipment is really "unprecedented."

10 Gigabit Ethernet reaches two milestones

08/21/08

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch market reached two milestones in the second quarter of this year, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group.

N-Data back with different patents

08/19/08

Six months after settling with the FTC on an Ethernet-related patent, Negotiated Data Solutions, or N-Data, is back in the headlines.

Even embedded systems need prioritization

08/14/08

It's something that's taken for granted on enterprise LAN hardware, but Quadros Systems just this week introduced the ability to do priority-based processing of Ethernet packets in its embedded, real-time operating system.

Bag of 10-Gigabit chips

08/12/08

In a sign of building momentum toward higher-speed LANs, chip companies have been tripping over each other in recent days to announce their latest silicon supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

3Com's H3C provides network for Olympic surveillance

08/07/08

As we in the United States watch the Olympic Games televised from Beijing over the next couple of weeks, Chinese security personnel will be watching over the Games via IP-based surveillance cameras, thanks to networking provided by 3Com's Chinese subsidiary H3C Technologies.

Convergence and divergence in Ethernet switches

08/05/08

There are two interesting trends going on in the Ethernet switch market - one involves convergence, the other involves divergence, and both are helping the market to grow, according to Dell'Oro Group.

BERTs get a boost

07/31/08

Frost & Sullivan recently issued a report on the emerging market for bit-error-rate testers, or BERTs, which the research firm says is getting a lift from telecom applications.

10 Gigabit switch unveiled for NEC blades

07/29/08

Blade Network Technologies this week introduced Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches using 10 Gigabit Ethernet for NEC Sigmablade blade-server systems.

Reactions to Brocade-Foundry deal

07/24/08

As the impact of the news this week that Brocade Communications Systems will be acquiring Foundry Networks sank in, it drew a wide range of reactions - even just at Network World.

Foundry finds a buyer in Brocade

07/22/08

I've followed Foundry Networks since its Gigabit Ethernet beginnings, in 1996. I visited its offices during the '90s boom years, when it was growing quickly along with the rest of the tech industry. I've seen it weather storms and mature into the company it is today. I guess somehow I expected or even hoped that Foundry would remain independent indefinitely.

Blade Network Technologies joins green-computing group

07/17/08

Blade Network Technologies recently joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organization whose stated goal is to cut computer power consumption in half by 2010.

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Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World.