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News about switches
  • Cisco upgrades industrial Ethernet switches

    Cisco this week unveiled an updated line of Ethernet switches for industrial environments, such as manufacturing floors.

  • Avaya answers Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent with SMB switches

    Avaya has unveiled low-end Ethernet switches for small and medium-sized enterprises and remote branches that include features usually found in higher-end enterprise-class switches.

  • How we tested Arista's DCS-7508 switch

    We assessed the Arista DCS-7508 with tests of performance and power consumption. The performance tests used the Spirent TestCenter test instrument to measure layer-2 and layer-3 unicast throughput and latency; layer-2 and layer-3 multicast throughput and latency; OSPF equal cost multipath (ECMP); N+1 fabric failover; buffering capacity; OSPF routing capacity; and multi-chassis link aggregation (MLAG). All tests used version 4.8.4 of Arista's EOS software and Version 3.95 of Spirent TestCenter software.

  • Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible

    Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch.

  • Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge

    Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.

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