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Still dreaming of a unified network of everything

Many in our industry have dreamed of a unified network, and we continue to close in on it. But the truth is we’ve been closing in on it for quite a long time. It reminds me of the quest for a unified field theory or “theory of everything” in physics. ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Steve Taylor,  Google Inc.

3Com saved by HP - and Cisco

HP has agreed to acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion, which is at least an improvement over the $2.2 billion offered in early 2008 by Bain Capital Partners and Huawei Technologies. It could have been worse – after the way the economy has been over the last ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Bain Capital

There's nothing local about this LAN

Sign up for this newsletter now! Site Editor Jeff Caruso helps you make sense of the evolving world of LANs and routers. Verizon Business this week expanded its Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) across the world, taking a local area network ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  4 Nov 2009

LTE is on track to rock your world

LTE is shaping up to be a major network technology, and Infonetics Research this week released a report demonstrating just how big it will be. LTE is – well, the acronyms can get insane if I start spelling it all out. The short version is that LTE, ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: NTT DoCoMo,  Verizon Wireless

The Internet has shifted under our feet

The way traffic moves over the Internet has changed radically in the last five years, according to a new report, and few people have realized it. Arbor Networks measures network performance for its customers, but it has also used its vantage point to ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Facebook Inc.

3Com patents bite back

Some big names in the computer industry were sued this week by a company claiming that they have infringed on Ethernet-related patents developed by 3Com. The company is called U.S. Ethernet Innovations, which owns the patents spun off from 3Com for the ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Fujitsu,  Toshiba,  Alcatel-Lucent,  Avaya Inc.

More companies hop on the WiGig bandwagon

More companies recently joined the WiGig Alliance for advancing high-speed wireless technologies, lifting the group’s total membership above 20. Toshiba joined the alliance’s board of directors, while Agilent Technologies, Beam Networks, Ralink ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Toshiba,  Agilent Technologies, Inc.,  Broadcom

First 40G Ethernet adapter ships

Mellanox Technologies this week shipped a “Goldilocks” network adapter card, one that the company says is the first to run 40G Ethernet. I say it’s a Goldilocks card because it’s not too fast, not too slow – not as fast as cutting-edge 100G Ethernet ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  21 Sep 2009

10G causes LAN architecture shift

An important article related to network architecture may have gotten a little lost in the shuffle when it was published last week on Network World, so I wanted to make sure I drew your attention to it. Jim Duffy wrote about a fundamental shift ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Jim Duffy

It’s been 10 years. Let me introduce myself

My 10-year anniversary of writing this newsletter has come and gone, and I didn’t even realize it until just now. It took me a while to pin down the exact start date. Once I did and re-read those initial newsletters, I realized I forgot to do ...

From JEFF CARUSO, NetworkWorld,  7 Sep 2009

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