• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• CIO challenge with BYOD: Don't fall down the rabbit hole

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 May, 2012 07:56

  When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head."

• HP: SDNs are key to Cloud deployment

  By Jim Duffy | 10 May, 2012 05:42

  LAS VEGAS: Software-defined networks (SDN) have the capability to provision applications in minutes instead of months, and speed deployment into the cloud, according to the head of HP Networking.

• Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core

  By Jim Duffy | 07 May, 2012 20:33

  Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.

• Juniper joins Cisco, Enterasys in BYOD management fray

  By Jim Duffy | 04 May, 2012 01:28

  Juniper this week unveiled new and enhanced products designed to secure mobile device access to enterprise networks.

• Video conferencing: The business case

  By Georgina Swan | 07 August, 2010 09:00

  It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. At the push of a button, we are chatting to colleagues in Toronto, Canada, speaking to each other as if we were seated across the table. We see the nuances of facial expressions, hand gestures and presentations, full-size, clear and uninterrupted.

• Cisco's Cius business tablet: A visual tour

  By Jared Newman | 08 July, 2010 16:07

  Cisco gets down to business with its Cius business tablet that will let you perform video conferencing and is optimized for apps such as WebEx Meeting Center.

• Networks go green and save money

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 22 April, 2010 07:37

  Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.

• HP sets sights on Cisco in networking battle

  By Jeff Jedras | 28 April, 2010 03:49

  It was nearly an hour into the opening keynotes at the Americas Partner Summit on Monday until a Hewlett Packard executive finally used the C-word: Cisco. But the one-time networking partner was certainty front of mind though as HP re-affirmed its commitment to become the leader in every business segment it competes in including networking.

• Seven Questions with Cisco CEO John Chambers

  By John Gallant | 15 March, 2010 06:46

  By almost any measure, Cisco Systems, Inc. is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco's reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks. The company offers everything from personal video cameras to high-end telepresence systems, set-top video boxes to, lately, servers for the data center, in addition to more traditional network gear like routers and switches.

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