Jim Duffy

Cisco Systems Inc.

"The biggest, baddest switch you can buy today is still too small -- woefully too small," says an engineer at Facebook, which has warehouse-sized data centres. What the company wants is Instead it has to settle for 100G Ethernet now. Find out why it has to settle for 10G.

"We want the race car without paying race car prices," the head of the Ethernet Alliance told a conference this week. But 40G products are expected to hit the market in the spring, with prices falling after that

The two networking companies unveiled new and acquired products at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read about all the details with these mobility-focused tools

Alliance will let service providers offer telepresence and video conferencing services to enterprises. An industry analyst thinks Cisco Systems still has an advantage because it can supply all parts of a networkrn

With the Passport brand of switches and Long Term Evolution wireless patents, an investor could still have a go at the Nortel brand, one analyst says. Other industry watchers say the firm is gone for good, now that Avaya Inc., LM Ericsson and Ciena Corp. have bought Nortel

In its 25th year, Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Tandberg, entered the data centre server market and upgraded its Integrated Services Router line. A review of the year for the San Jose, Calif. switching and routing equipment manufacturer

The LAN switching market is now steered by four companies. The others are under a lot of pressure