HP’s ProCurve networking unit painted the target there early in the decade, when they began gunning for Cisco, whose strength, …
Data center network brawl
Converged platforms that combine servers, storage and networking into a single system with common management tools are the future of …
Fibre Optic outlet
It allows network operators and homeowners to extend fiber optic broadband all the way into individual rooms. The solution for …
Crossing over to a new era
The building that houses Seven Seas headquarters near Lamzy Plaza in Oud Mehta, Dubai looks quite modest from the outside …
Riding the strength of focus
Advanced networking technologies is the terrain of the solution providers who have rich expertise to offer when it comes to …
Degrees of excellence
Al Ahli Holding Group is an enterprise holding group working in different sectors through more than 20 companies in steel, …
Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go …
Nexans EMAC devices to help create greener data centres
Nexans has launched a new series of environmental monitoring and access control (EMAC) devices that provide intelligent management of power …
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
IT managers who are getting started with – or even pushing the limits of — 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their …
Cisco reveals aggressive pricing for blade server system
As promised, Cisco this week divulged more details on its Unified Computing System for data centers, including pricing and performance …
Leviton and PCDealNet join hands for Lebenon market
Leviton Middle East, a subsidiary of Leviton, North America’s leading manufacturer of electrical and electronic products, has signed PCDealNet as …
Brocade switch joins emerging storage, network standards
Brocade has unveiled a switch and network adapters that join Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) into …
Future Ethernet – Fiber vs. Copper
Ethernet started as the shared copper medium (cable) technology. As data speed increased from 10Mbps to 1Gbps, then Ethernet no …
Copper at the crossroads
Most companies like to think of their cabling systems as plumbing, a fixed quantity that is altered only at substantial …
Knowing optical networking
Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code …
Copper tops 10 Gigabits
When the first 10 gigabit Ethernet standard was released, sky-high prices of more than $50,000 per port kept many IT …
Cables that bind
Although we may take a wired world for granted, the consequence is that we rely on wires to connect us …
Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
For the County of Los Angeles – with more than 10 million residents, the nation's largest county – the timing …
Data Center design: Form follows function
American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: …
Fiber Channel, CEE, and FCoE – what they’re really all about
Over the last ten years, Fiber Channel has become the standard technology worldwide for Storage Area Networks (SANs) and external …