Extreme joins Cisco, Brocade, Huawei at 100G
Week News Abstract For Fiber Series in 10GTEK
The abstract is mainly about the optical communication related products,including: SFP,QSFP,FTTH,GPON,EPON,SFPPLC,PTN,ODN,Sfp Transceiver,Optic Transceiver,Optical module,Optical devices,optical communications,Optical transceiver module,Etc.
OpenFlow start-up Big Switch lands another big funding round
Network World - OpenFlow controller start-up Big Switch Networks this week said it closed a $25 million Series B funding round to continue the expansion of the engineering, sales and marketing operations.The round was led by Redpoint Ventures and joined by Goldman Sachs, along with existing investors Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures, as well as others. Big Switch Networks was founded in March of 2010 and closed its $14 million Series A round in March of 2011, bringing the total raised to date to $39 million.
----------------------------------------------------
Extreme joins Cisco, Brocade, Huawei at 100G
Network World - Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch.Extreme's 100/40G XL modules are designed to help scale BlackDiamond X8 networks for virtualized multi-tenant cloud data centers, Internet Exchanges and data center core deployments. They are capable of scaling to 1 million route entries, and hundreds of thousands of addresses and flows through an upgraded TCAM, and logically segment multi-tenant networks with Layer 2 broadcast domains, Extreme says.Extreme says they are "ideally suited" for evolving data center interconnect architectures with hardware Layer 2 over Generic Routing Encapsulation (L2GRE), and VXLAN transport with several tens of thousands of multicast groups.
----------------------------------------------------
Four takeaways from Cisco's Q1
Yet there continue to be trouble spots. Economic conditions in Europe are still an issue, leading to weakness in orders and product revenue growth. Orders for Cisco products in the region fell 10% from last year, with enterprise decreasing mid-teens and service provider declining in the high-teens.The US public sector vertical is also still soft, down 15% from a year ago.Weakness in both of these markets contributed to a 2% decline in Cisco’s switching and routing revenue.Collaboration also continues to be a laggard in Cisco’s product portfolio. The business was down 8% again this quarter from a year ago – which was a record quarter -- just as it was in Q4, 2012. Cisco just named its third chief for the business in less than a year, and is intent on correcting recent trends.“We need to do a better job in collaboration, and will continue to invest in innovation and sales execution to capitalize on this very important marketplace,” CEO John Chambers said in the Q1 conference call this week. A transcript of that call can be found on the Seeking Alpha.com site.Some of the priorities include integrating WebEx, Jabber, unified communications and TelePresence into “a single call manager,” Chamber said.“You will see us continue to pull together our TelePresence, unified communication and WebEx offerings into an integrated open architecture that enables communication with any device to any other, with consistent experience and unparalleled ease of use,” he said. “We believe this strategy will position us well to address the evolving requirements in this market.”Speaking of TelePresence, that HD conferencing business was down in the mid-teens overall, and more than 30% in the U.S. federal government market in Q1.“We anticipate (collaboration) being a tough battle, especially if we don't see economies pick up from present levels,” Chamber said.It may be key to Cisco’s ambitions of becoming the No. 1 IT company in the industry. Chambers reiterated that goal this week and, despite the product challenges, said Cisco’s prepped to attain it.“We are evolving the role we play in our customer accounts moving from the top communications company to our goal of becoming the No. 1 IT company,” he said.That’s assisted by 61% growth in Cisco’s data center business, where the UCS server platform is spurring follow on sales. In the enterprise, data center grew 54% in Q1 for Cisco, fueled by the adoption of Intel “Romley”- based servers. Chambers says Cisco is No. 4 in the overall server market after three years in the business.
****************************************
The above information is edited by 10GTEK.
10GTEK TRANSCEIVERS CO., LTD (Hereinafter refered to as 10GTEK) is specialized in developing and manufacturing Fiber Optical Transceivers and High Performance Cables which are wildly applied in Datacom, Telecom and CATV, providing customers with top quality and cost effective products. Our High Speed Cables cover Passive SFP+ Cable, Active SFP+ Cable, QSFP+ cables, MiniSAS (SFF-8088) Cables, CX4 Cables, Harness cables, Breakout Cables, Patchcords. We also manufacture Fiber Optic Transceivers like 10G XFP, 10G SFP+, SFP DWDM/ CWDM, GBIC, etc. The prompt response and excellent customer support contribute to clients‘ full satisfaction.Today, 10GTEK has been growing fast in the optical field for its unique and competitve excellence which has got a high attention from datacom and telecom.
?This article reader also like:10Gbps server migration: Where are we?
