QLogic Corp. says that the company is sampling adapters based on the cLOM8514 network controller with Tier-1 server and storage OEMs. This is the industry’ first 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) capable network controller. It is also the first controller that can support the emerging 25 Gigabit Ethernet standard, and the first controller that is able to support dual-port, full line speed 40GbE performance with a PCIe Gen3 x16 host interface. The new QLogic® controller covers the breadth...
Read MoreThe Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), has unveiled its networking industry predictions for 2015 at Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the upcoming year, ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt forecasts that open-source software will become the predominant means toward developing industry network standards. In addition, Pitt predicts that open SDN will become...
Read MoreNational Cable Communications (NCC) Media, one of America’s leading media companies specialising in a mix of advertising sales, marketing and technology services, has selected and deployed Extreme Networks’ high performance switches to bring its data centre into the next generation.
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Read MoreADVA Optical Networking isjointly hosting a demonstration with Metaswitch Networks at this year's SDN and OpenFlow World Congress. The demonstration presents a radical new approach to routing the enormous and ever-growing volume of network traffic. Focused primarily on ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 150EG-X and Metaswitch Networks' Gulfstream SDN controller, the demonstration highlights how to automatically optimize network path selection to offload traffic from provider edge (PE)...
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