| Data center 10G whets switching companies' appetites Announcements from Brocade, Extreme Networks, 3Com and Force10 Networks highlight a growing trend in data center networking: the rapid uptake of 10 Gigabit Ethernet to accommodate increasing computational and storage density brought on by application growth, increasing use of blade servers and large-scale virtualization. Radware pays $18 million for Nortel's Alteon assets For the bargain price of $18 million, Radware acquired Nortel’s Layer 4-7 switches for application acceleration and load-balancing, plus certain related intellectual property assets, tangible assets, inventory and service contracts. Radware also has taken on a number of employees from Nortel’s application delivery group. IBM to resell Brocade's Foundry switches Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears to be in retaliation for Cisco’s recent entry into the blade server market. The network is dead, long live the network The Las Vegas Interop conference is upon us once again. At one time, Interop was all about networking, and the conference would devote multiple tracks to network technologies such as ATM. At this year's conference, there are tracks on a wide range of topics, including Enterprise 2.0, Green IT, cloud computing and virtualization. The Internet sky is not falling Last week our esteemed colleague from Nemertes Research Johna Till Johnson wrote that the Internet is in deep peril because: "IP itself is nearing end-of-life, with no ready alternative." To prevent what she describes as a looming crisis, Johna champions a radical new Internet architecture. Just as the sky did not fall on Chicken Little, the Internet sky is not about to fall on us. Ixia to demo 100G Ethernet At Interop next week, test vendor Ixia says it will transmit and receive Ethernet traffic at 100Gbps through a CFP Multi-Source Agreement optical module. F5 adds security touches to Big-IP F5 has added security enhancements to its Big-IP applications delivery platform. The BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) Web application firewall is aimed at enterprises and service providers that need to consolidate their infrastructure and more confidently secure, deploy, and optimize applications. | 
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