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Article | 10/03/2010 Cisco: Monster CRS-3 router paves way for more powerful 'Net

Cisco Tuesday announced a major upgrade to its Internet core router, which is designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and...

Article | 23/02/2010 Cisco, Juniper, HP drive Ethernet switch market in Q4

The Ethernet switch market grew almost 20% sequentially during the fourth quarter, with Cisco, HP and Juniper Networks adding almost $600 million in i...

Article | 11/02/2010 The technology behind the Vancouver Olympic Games

Bell Canada is claiming the Vancouver 2010 Olympic network as the first IP-based converged network at any Olympic or Paralympic Games.

Article | 7/01/2010 CES: Cisco readying home telepresence trials in US

Cisco this week said it will trial a home telepresence service in the United States this spring with Verizon, and in France later this year with Franc...

Article | 18/12/2009 Cisco will be hard pressed to match 2009

2009 started with a bang and ended with a bash for Cisco.

Article | 10/12/2009 Cisco sees room to grow, despite enterprise dominance

With dominance in enterprise networking, Cisco still believes there's room to grow through innovation.

Article | 4/12/2009 Extreme unveils switching blueprint for virtual data centers

Extreme Networks this week unveiled a blueprint for migrating data centers from the physical world to virtualization, and then ultimately to cloud co...

Article | 5/12/2009 Cisco wins Tandberg with 91.1% stake

After a hard-fought battle, Cisco has won control of video conferencing leader Tandberg with ownership of 91.1% of the company's shares.

Article | 2/12/2009 Data center start-up expands Gigabit Ethernet switch line

Arista Networks has unveiled a Gigabit Ethernet data center switch designed to better accommodate increasing traffic loads between the server access a...

Article | 20/11/2009 10G in data centers driving Ethernet switch market

The Ethernet switch market grew for the second consecutive quarter during the third quarter of this year, driven by continued strength in data center ...

Article | 11/11/2009 Cisco says it may drop Tandberg

There’s a good reason Cisco extended its $3 billion offer deadline for Tandberg another nine days: Less than 10 per cent of shareholders accepted the ...

Article | 12/11/2009 Fujitsu pumps out 10G Ethernet data center switch

Fujitsu has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet switch designed to handle important applications in an energy-efficient way.

Article | 10/11/2009 Cisco extends Tandberg deal deadline

Cisco this week said is extending the acceptance period for its $US3 billion cash offer to acquire Tandberg to Nov. 18. The initial acceptance deadlin...

Article | 4/11/2009 Cisco, EMC unveil data center joint venture

Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private c...

Article | 28/10/2009 Cisco buying ScanSafe for $US183 million

Cisco has announced plans to buy privately held ScanSafe, a maker of software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web security services for enterprises and small-to-m...