Jim Duffy

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Nortel customers await results of restructuring plan

A large portion of Nortel's customers are pressing the pause button on purchases until they get a clearer picture of the company's restructuring plan due July 30, according to t Joel Hackney, president of Nortel Enterprise Solutions

Adtran unveils Layer 3 switches

The NetVanta 1544 supports four 2.5 Gbps uplinks per switch, with one model supporting power over Ethernet. An Infonetics analyst says customers are looking for something that works for a good price

3Com takes another shot at enterprise switching

Nine years after dropping its CoreBuilder switch line, the Marlborough, Mass. Network equipment maker plans to ship data centre switches in July. Find out how they compare to Cisco Nexus

Data centre 10G whets switching companies’ appetites

Products scheduled for rollout this week include modules that support high-density Ethernet aggregation. Find out what

100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is set to define standards for Ethernet at 40 Gigabits per second and 100 Gig. Task force chairman John D

IBM to resell Brocade

Cisco's recent decision to develop its own blade servers may have angered IBM, HP and others in that market. As a result, server vendors are aligning themselves with Cisco competitors in the networking space

5 best router and switch features you never use

A Brocade exec says most companies use less than 20 per cent of switches features, and many do not use network access control or IPv6. How NetFlow and sFlow can help track who is using what

Can Cisco sell unified vision to a tough server crowd?

Find out what beta tester Savvis says about Unified Computing System and get the inside scoop on earlier discussions with IBM and HP

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