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• Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core

  Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.

• Dissecting Cisco's FabricPath Ethernet technology

  Cisco's FabricPath data center Ethernet technology is designed to combine traditional, Spanning Tree-based Ethernet with a next-generation architecture that uses a link-state protocol to allow for multiple active paths. Deploying multiple active paths in a data center network is required to flatten the infrastructure to reduce latency and better support traffic flow between server racks.

• Juniper exec gives inside look at QFabric

  R.K. Anand, executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Networks' Data Center Business Unit, was employee No. 12 of the network startup back in 1996, leaving a job as a microprocessor designer at Sun Microsystems. Years later he left Juniper for a brief stint at another startup, but came back to help finalize the company's QFabric product and get it out the door. QFabric began shipping in September 2011. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Anand at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a deep dive on the company's answer to high-end data center demands.

• Brocade hones app delivery controllers for IPv6, net management

  Brocade this week released new software for its application delivery controllers that gives users greater visibility into performance, and enhances IPv6 communications.

• Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G

  Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.

• Extreme CEO: New products in 2012, growth in 2013

  After years of stagnant or lackluster growth, Extreme Networks tapped Oscar Rodriguez to bring new life to the switch maker in 2010. He scrutinized global operations, streamlined the product line and brought a new focus that he says will really come through this spring with a new wave of switches. Rodriguez shared his goals for Extreme in 2012 with Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix and Managing Editor Jim Duffy.

• Brocade on the block again?

  If at first you don't succeed ...

• Brocade fleshes out cloud strategy for battle with Cisco, others

  Brocade today unveiled its plan for migrating customers to distributed, virtualized, Cloud-based data centers, along with products supporting that plan.

• Brocade adds IPv6 to core switching platform

  Networking vendor Brocade has announced an upgrade to its core switching software which increases performance and adds IPv6 support.

• Computerworld Breakfast

  This event is designed to provide you with insight into the changing landscape of the data centre, trends and strategies to help your organisation simplify your virtualised environments and current market insights.

• Brocade balances SAN base with new data center reality

  ith a 65% share of the SAN market, the company is in an enviable position to jump on next-generation data center opportunities

• Brocade releases virtual data centre switches

  Networking vendor Brocade has announced a new range of Ethernet switches designed for virtualised data centres and clouds.

• Brocade, HP unveil data center extensions

  Brocade this week unveiled data center products available from OEM HP that are designed to support next-generation Fibre Channel rollouts anchored to optimizing application performance and scaling virtual machines.

• Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans

  Enterasys, the networking division of Siemens Enterprise Communications this week unveiled it data center strategy, which hinges on partnerships and multivendor inclusion as well as the policy-based management capabilities of its switches.