So Juniper Networks have launched a new idea in switching, expanding the switching fabric across multiple chassis in their QFabric switch platform. In their launch video (it's 76 minutes long,…
End-of-life: Juniper WX Stack architecture
Juniper Networks has announced in the last couple of days End-of Life for the WX100 devices. This effectively kills off the WX stack architecture as a side-effect. The WX-100 was…
Aggregation continues? Brocade and Foundry
In another sign of the current state of the industry market place, we've just seen the announcement of the acquisition of network switch supplier Foundry by SAN switch supplier Brocade…
What is hybrid networking?
You'll start to hear the term Hybrid Networking bandied around shortly. Whilst hybrid can mean many things, in this case we are talking about Hybrid Network Unification. In this article,…
Ciena to gain Carrier Ethernet with World Wide Packets announcement
Ciena Networks is acquiring privately-held World Wide Packets for $200mn in cash and $90mn in shares. World Wide Packets will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ciena. It brings a…
Update on Juniper WXC WCCP support
Following on from my look at Juniper WXC and WCCP for resilient sites, it transpires that the issue with IGMP snooping needing to be disabled on certain switches is due…
Juniper WXC and WCCP for resilient sites
The new Juniper software for the WAN acceleration products (WX and WXC series devices) provides for the use of out-of-path deployments. Whilst this can help in simplifying the deployment scenarios…