OpenFlow 1.3.0 introduces new features that enable network administrators to have more control over their network deployments. The new specification is also important as it is likely to become the stable base upon which future commercial implementations for OpenFlow will be built. [/cente...

VMware helped to lead the revolution that has transformed the data center server space with virtual nodes of compute server infrastructure. Now VMware wants to lead the way in virtualizing networking. It's a movement that is aligned with the newly emerging trend of software defined networking (SDN) that enables programmable networks abstracting networking hardware...

The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a long standing standard for networking that has come under fire in recent years. Spanning Tree doesn't meet the demands of cloud scale and it doesn't deliver the latency characteristics that many companies want from large multi-chassis networking deployments...

At Interop Las Vergas conference last week, HP unveiled its vision for virtual application networks (VAN) that will reduce reliance on the CLI and usher in a new era for network administration...

What is the reality of the cloud? That's the question that a new Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey set out to answer. As it turns out, reality is somewhat different then the cloud-everywhere-right-now hype permeating every facet of the IT landscape...

Getting proper visibility into IPv6 traffic flows however isn't an easy task as traffic is often tunneled with IPv4 traffic as well in dual-stack deployments where traffic flows over both IPv4 and IPv6 address space.
An updated solution from network visibility vendor WildPackets is aiming to solve that problem...

The 40G mesh networking platform provides high speed low-latency connectivity at the center of the network. It's all part of Alcatel-Lucent's larger vision of application fluency and enabling networking for the [url=http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/alcatel-lucent-goes-40g-end-to-end...

LAS VEGAS. Every year, the networking world descends on Las Vegas for the annual Interop conference. It's the place where new networking technologies debut and broad industry movement trends are exposed. For 2012, new General Manager Jennifer Jessup, is running the show as the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and BYOD revolutions are heralded from vendor booths and conference sessions alike...

F5 reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday with revenue coming in at $339.6 million, for a 22.4 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $68.6 million or $0.86 per share, up from $55.6 million or $0.68 per share for the second quarter of 2011. Moving forward, F5 provided revenue guidance for the third quarter of 2012 to be in the range of $350 to $355 million...

NetScaler 10 is a major software release, and is supported across Citrix's entire line of NetScaler appliances, including both the physical NetScaler MPX hardware appliances and the software-based NetScaler VPX virtual appliances. A key part of the new release is the TriScale functionality that enables multiple NetScaler appliances to be clustered together...

The new Viprion 4480 chassis will replace the Viprion 4400 as the top of the line device from F5. The 4480 chassis is a modular platform that will be paired with the new 4300 blade as part of a complete solution...

Cisco today announced new collaboration offerings for the Apple iPad as well as a new telepresence system that integrates the best of Tandberg technology with Cisco.
On the mobile front, Cisco is announcing Jabber for iPad...

In 2011, the global free pool of available IPv4 addresses ran dry. That doesn't mean that IPv4 addresses are no longer valid, it just means that in order for big networks to scale, they need to start using the next generation IPv6 addresses...

Intel's latest server processor isn't just about servers, it's about networking, too. Intel officially launched the Xeon E5 CPU this week, providing performance gains of us much as 80 percent over Intel's previous generation server chips...

With the exhaustion of the public pool of available IPv4 addresses in 2011, the need for networks to move to the next generation IPv6 system of Internet addresses is becoming increasingly important. Moving to IPv6, comes with a host of challenges not the least of which are security related...

The cloud offers enterprises big and small, the opportunity to lower capital costs and improve efficiency, but it might be coming at a cost of speed, for some organizations. In an effort to help accelerate cloud connections, networking vendor Riverbed has partnered with content delivery network provider Akamai in a new joint solution...

Building out an enterprise network often involves including multiple networking hardware vendors as a way to leverage risk. According to a new study by Deloitte Consulting...

Networking vendor Aruba is now debuting a solution for BYOD, built on Linux and leveraging the open source FreeRADIUS access control solution to help return control to enterprises.
"ClearPass provides a networking solution for BYOD to address all of the major operating systems a...

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is giving more power to its Catalyst and Nexus switch customers with new modules that support the 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 100GbE standards. The 40 and 100 GbE standards were [url=http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3888881/Faster-40-and-100-Gigabit-Ethernet-Standard-Now-Real...

Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) is updating its ADX Application Delivery Controller (ADC) operating system providing new scriptable extensibility. The Brocade ADX 12.4 release is the first major update to the platform in nearly a year, following the [url=http://www...