Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture, or Avaya VENA, supports the emerging IEEE 802.1AQ Shortest Path Bridging standard. It's a software upgrade to Avaya's 8600, 8800 and VSP 9000 Ethernet ...

Continuing our look at the work of the IOWN project, we find out what use cases the next evolved generation of the infrastructure will support and which firms are likely to gain.

In order to keep up with demand for its services inside its data centers, Facebook developed a new networking architecture based on the same scale-out principles that revolutionized the server ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is forging ahead with its new networking architecture that it says will be essential for enterprises to deal with the massive surge in internet traffic that’s set to be ushered in ...

Brocade has announced its Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, which responds to the urgent needs of businesses to make their data centers more efficient, reliable, and adaptable. "CIOs and ...

As enterprises become more extended and reach their footprints further, dealing with network complexity has become almost as important as network performance. The key to this is AI. But only if ...

Enterprise networks are facing a dramatic shift in traffic patterns as generative AI (GenAI) applications proliferate across organizations. While traditional network architectures were designed around ...

Network reliability is vital for any business. With so many systems and departments being dependent on your company’s network, it’s vital that your systems are up 100 percent of the time. As most of ...

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