Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency. Voltaire’s first Ethernet ...

The new modular data-center switch product family with 14.4Tb/s fully encrypted bandwidth per slot. The Cisco Nexus 9800 Series features eight-slot and four-slot chassis that can scale from 57Tb/s ...

Cisco added three new data center switches to its Nexus line on Tuesday, furthering its Data Center 3.0 vision to enable consolidation, virtualization and centralization of resources.

The Cisco Nexus 9000 series is a family of modular and fixed-form data center switches, designed to meet diverse networking needs in modern data centers. The series runs on two different operating ...

(See Nortel CTO’s take on this comparison.) At the heart of VSS is the Virtual Switching Supervisor 720-10G, a management and switch fabric blade for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches.

Also new from Cisco are its Catalyst 10GBASE-T modules, which are devices that plug into its Catalyst data center switches to make them compatible with 10GBASE-T. 10GBASE-T is a protocol that ...

Home Analysis Network & SDN Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Huawei top Gartner data center switch rank Of the four, Arista showed the highest “ability to execute” mark. April 07, 2025 By Dan Meyer ...

Cisco warned customers today of a high-severity vulnerability impacting some data center switch models and allowing attackers to tamper with encrypted traffic. Tracked as CVE-2023-20185, the flaw ...