Sean Michael Kerner

Dell has updated its networking portfolio with new campus switching gear just before the annual Dell World conference starts. The new Dell Networking N-series includes new silicon, hardware chassis and a new Linux-based operating system. The new switches include the N2000 and N3000, both 1 GbE switches with 10 GbE uplinks. Dell’s refreshed campus portfolio […]

JDSU is continuing its push into the enterprise networking space today with the announcement of plans to acquire Network Instruments. JDSU will pay $200 million in cash for Network Instruments. The deal is set to close within the next 45 days. Network Instruments has 125 employees that helped the company generate approximately $40 million in […]

For over a year, Cisco has been building a new type of network infrastructure by way of its spin-out effort Insieme. Insieme is now being rolled back into Cisco as the company formally announces its plans and product for Application Centric Infrastructure. Cisco teased the market with some preliminary insight into Insieme in June of […]

Alcatel-Lucent is enhancing its enterprise networking portfolio with new software updates designed to meet the needs of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) world. Alcatel-Lucent is updating its core AOS Linux-based operating system and providing an integration with the Aruba Networks ClearPass system. Aruba first announced the ClearPass system back in 2012 and updated it earlier this year. The […]

Cisco is growing its switching portfolio today with the new Nexus 3100 series top-of-rack switches. The Nexus 3100 series builds on the Nexus 3000 switching platform, which Cisco first announced in March of 2011. Gabriel Dixon, marketing manager for Data Center and Virtualization at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet that the new Nexus 3100 series […]

After months of development, Juniper Networks is officially making its Contrail Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution available. Juniper acquired Contrail in December of 2012 for $176 million and has been talking about how the technology would form the cornerstone of its SDN efforts ever since. Until today, however, Juniper kept at least one key attribute […]

Not all environments are hospitable to regular networking gear. That’s where ruggedized equipment, hardened for different types of environmental conditions, comes into play. Juniper Networks today announced its latest entrant into the ruggedized space: the LN2600 router. The LN2600 joins the existing LN1000 in Juniper’s ruggedized lineup. The LN2600 is a new platform for Juniper, […]

Today Cisco announced a new switching platform, built on a very familiar name and history. The Catalyst 6800 isn’t just any new switch, though. It’s an extension of Cisco’s popular Catalyst 6500 platform, one of the most widely deployed switching platforms in the history of computing. According to Cisco, there are over 800,000 Catalyst 6500s […]

Cumulus Networks officially emerged from stealth mode this week, offering the promise of a new model for network operating systems. Cumulus takes a different approach than the typical model, in which the hardware switch vendor bakes in its own operating system. The startup wants hardware vendors to build whitebox networking gear, which can then be […]

Hakon Dahle, CTO of startup Pexip, is no stranger to the world of video communication. Dahle started his career at Tandberg in 1992 as a hardware design engineer and worked his way up to the CTO post, which he took over in 2002. Eight years later, Dahle joined Cisco when the vendor acquired Tandberg for […]

On May 22, 1973, Xerox PARC researcher Bob Metcalfe drew a diagram that would change the world. That diagram detailed how an Ethernet network could work. At the Ethernet Innovation Summit today, Metcalfe explained how Ethernet came to be, why it beat IBM, and where he hopes the future will take his creation. Metcalfe said […]

In the beginning of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) revolution, the OpenFlow protocol was front and center on both switches and controllers. While Juniper Networks has been among the many vendors to provide some switch support for OpenFlow, the company is now moving forward with its first-generation SDN controller, which does not leverage OpenFlow. The […]