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Our switches slash power use, claims D-Link

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:40:00 GMT

Produces independent tests.

Networking vendor D-Link has published tests that appear to back up the startling power-saving claims the company has been making for its range of 'green' switches.

BT ups pressure on regulator over fibre rollout

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:01:00 GMT

Downturn may delay next-generation network.

The boss of BT has ratcheted up the pressure on the UK telecoms regulator over the rollout of fibre in the UK, after admitting in a newspaper article that its spending on fibre is being questioned by some of the carrier's shareholders.

New QLogic switch powers to 40Gbits/s

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Turning Infiniband ASIC up to '11'.

QLogic has launched a new range of data switches for the InfiniBand high-speed switching technology used in high-performance computing data centres.

Fault-finder to fix virtual config errors

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:30:00 GMT

Replicate looks to cut down downtime.

Replicate Datacenter Analyzer (RDA) 1.0 is a virtual appliance that works in VMware Infrastructure 3 environments. The software installs on an ESX Server, integrates with VirtualCenter and distributes small software probes that collect data via discovery mechanisms to help IT managers get a complete view of configurations. RDA discovers the environment, models the physical and virtual resources, and applies 20 pre-packaged analyses to gauge the data center's security, resiliency and connectivity.

BT takes axe to workforce as services unit struggles

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:20:00 GMT

Offshore and subcontractors to bear the brunt.

The former UK telecoms incumbent, BT, has announced that is to axe 10,000 workers as it seeks to cut costs and improve profitability at its services branch.

IT spend set to slow down dramatically

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:09:00 GMT

Recession hits expenditure plans.

IT spending will increase at just half the rate previously predicted according to IDC.

Akamai ramps up delivery of cloud applications

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Making costs go a long way.

"More and more companies are looking to use the general Internet, where once they would have used a private WAN," said Neil Cohen. Akamai's director of product marketing. "The problem that they've faced is that the Internet is not so good at delivering applications; what we wanted to do was make the Internet behave as if it was a private WAN."

Cohen said that there were...

Blue Coat plugs into Packeteer appliance

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:46:00 GMT

Tool can now ping YouTube surfers.

Blue Coat Systems has released a software plug-in that allows the security and wide-area network (WAN) acceleration provider to use one the most important bits of technology from its $268 million acquisition of Packeteer.

Free tool helps sysadmins manage compliance

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:10:00 GMT

Q1 Labs offers slimmed down product.

QRadar SLIM Free Edition (SLIM FE) enables IT managers to collect, analyse, report and store network, host, server, application and security event logs via syslog from routers, switches, security devices and servers. It is a scaled-back version of the Q1 Labs SLIM (Simple Log and Information Management) product, which...

Juniper in pickle as latest switch runs late

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:33:00 GMT

Pimp my data centre...

Juniper Networks this week will gloss over the fact that its chassis-based data centre switch is shipping later than planned by playing up its total cost of ownership position.

EU abandons telecoms regulator plan

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:39:00 GMT

No European FCC for us

The European Commission has scaled back its ambitions to create a US FCC-style regulator for the EU following lawmakers opposed the move in September.

UK companies lack ability to measure energy use

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:25:00 GMT

Going green in the dark, says survey.

Many UK companies have adopted green policies on power consumption without having any way of measuring their progress, a new survey has found.

UK businesses fail to measure energy consumption

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:25:00 GMT

It's not easy being green

Extreme, which carried out the survey in conjunction with its partner, Data Integration, could offer little explanation for this apparent disconnect with companies' aspirations and the actuality although the company was keen to point out that the notion of calculating carbon emissions was still very new and that organisations hadn't yet got their heads around methodology.

New Cisco router coming says analyst

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:41:00 GMT

Although Cisco stays schtum about planned edge router

Cisco is expected to announce a new service provider edge router later this month that's likely to succeed its ageing 7600 series Ethernet platforms, according to an analyst's report.

Peering dispute cuts off Internet users

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:17:00 GMT

Sprint and Cogent at each other's throats.

Customers of two large ISPs have been left unable to communicate with each other following the decision by Sprint-Nextel to sever its Internet connection with Cogent.

ICANN ponders radical domain sales scheme

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:14:00 GMT

Any TLD you wants as long as it's not .xxx.

ICANN is seeking comments on a proposal that would open up the market for generic top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet, basically allowing anyone with $185,000 (£118,000) to buy a new TLD.

Company's unified comms server ready for tight market

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:45:00 GMT

Downturn good for Avaya, says company CEO.

For example, a supply-chain application that lists vendors could be written so running a mouse over the name tells their presence status and clicking on the name calls them on the phone. The supply-chain application would interface direct with SIP Application Server, which would interact with the presence server and the call server to enable the features.

Sun in tug-of-war over chief scientist

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:07:00 GMT

Full-time at Arista, part-time at Sun...so that's crystal clear

Sun went into damage limitation mode following the news that Arista Networks announced that it had snared Andreas Bechtolsheim, Sun's chief scientist to be its chief development officer.

Vint Cerf warns on IPv6 uptake

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:49:00 GMT

You have until mid-2010, says Google sage.

The Internet will get support for IPv6, a more secure domain name system and international characters, during the next couple of years, according to Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist at Google.

Optical encryption at 100Gbits/s now possible

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:29:00 GMT

Tiny component speeds secure fibre.

Researchers have created an optical network component that they say can encrypt data travelling at 100Gbits/s, far outpacing current electronic encryption technologies.

Juniper enhances edge services

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:39:00 GMT

Company releases router upgrades

They include:

Afore looks to improved inter-datacentre communications

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:31:00 GMT

Ethernet acceleration box could save bandwidth cost.

ASE 3300 corrects errors by reconstituting lost packets so higher-layer protocols don't have to retransmit them. This makes connections run more efficiently and so less expensively, the company says. Overall, the devices could improve application performance 50 percent to 60 percent, said Jonathan Reeves, chairman and chief strategy officer for Afore.

Free network tool aimed at VMware users

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:12:00 GMT

New addition to SolarWinds range.

VM Monitor is available for free download now. Orion NPM 9.1 pricing starts at US$2,475 (£1,430) for 100 monitored elements including first year maintenance. Existing customers with valid maintenance contracts will get the VMware ESX server monitoring capabilities and other updates in Version 9.1 at no cost.

Cisco offers budget conferencing option

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:09:00 GMT

No more long-haul business flights?

Cisco is continuing to push the remote teleworking agenda, with the announcement that it has set up public rooms for people who want to use high-end videoconferencing, but who can't afford a full-scale Cisco TelePresence system.

Cisco offers hourly video conferencing option

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:09:00 GMT

No more long-haul business flights?