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Cisco's virtual switch

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Cisco's virtual switch smashes throughput records

By David Newman, Network World Lab Alliance
Virtualization, long a hot topic for servers, has entered the networking realm. With the introduction of a new management blade for its Catalyst 6500 switches, Cisco can make two switches look like one while dramatically reducing failover times in the process. Read full story

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