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A Different Take on Software Defined Networks sponsored by Enterasys WHITE PAPER: Get a different take on software defined networks, who they help, the benefits you can achieve from deploying one, and key tips for utilizing one within your organization. Posted: 02 Aug 2013 \| Published: 02 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Application Programming Interfaces \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Routers \| Routing \| Switch Fabric \| Switches \| Switching

Accelerating IBM z/OS Global Mirror with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution. Posted: 29 Dec 2009 \| Published: 29 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Data Encryption \| High Availability \| Mainframe Server Hardware \| Networking Hardware \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Switches

Advancing the Economics of Networking: Juniper Networks Ethernet Switching Solutions Reduce Capital and Operational IT Expenses sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks proposes to change the current economic model of networking by delivering a new family of solutions that reduce capital and operational expenses, freeing up IT budget dollars and allowing businesses to invest in innovative technologies that will reduce the cost of doing business while improving the bottom line. Posted: 17 Jul 2009 \| Published: 17 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Ethernet Networks \| Ethernet Switches \| LAN Switches \| LAN Switching \| Network Infrastructure \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Switches \| Switching \| WAN Switches \| WAN Switching

Building a Small Office Network: Getting Started sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Building a small office network means starting with a foundation of switches and routers. The following guide will help you understand the difference between switches and routers and develop a clear vision for what your network foundation needs. Posted: 10 Oct 2008 \| Published: 10 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Home Area Networks \| Home Offices \| Home Productivity Software \| Network Management \| Routers \| Switches \| VoIP

Cisco Catalyst 2960-S, 2960-X, and 2960-XR Stacking with FlexStack and FlexStack-Plus Technology: Description, Usage, and Best Practices sponsored by Cisco WHITE PAPER: This guide takes a look at top network switching technologies and how they can help revolutionize your existing networks. Posted: 06 Apr 2014 \| Published: 31 Dec 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Network Architectures \| Network Best Practices \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Management Services \| Network Performance \| Networking \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Switches \| Switching

Cisco Delivers Enterprise-Class Next-Generation Acceleration Solution for Disaster Recovery and SAN Extension sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them. Posted: 29 Dec 2009 \| Published: 29 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Centers \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Switches

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Virtual SANs Advantages sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center. Posted: 29 Dec 2009 \| Published: 29 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Networking Hardware \| SAN \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Switches \| TCO

Cisco, Intel, and Panduit Joint 10GBASE-T Solution sponsored by Panduit WHITE PAPER: This At-A-Glance document, created by Cisco, Intel and Panduit, the market leaders in enterprise switching,network adapters, and structured cabling, discusses how to deliver high-performance, cost-effective, and efficient next-generation RJ-45-based server connectivity. Posted: 20 Aug 2010 \| Published: 20 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Cable \| Cable Network Industry \| Enterprise \| High Performance Computing \| Performance Testing \| Server Management \| Switches

Deploying Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches in Enterprise Data Centers sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches are specifically designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and dramatically simplify network architecture in virtualized data centers. Posted: 13 Dec 2011 \| Published: 13 Dec 2011 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Cloud Computing \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IP Networks \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers sponsored by Continental Resources WHITE PAPER: Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture. Posted: 02 Apr 2010 \| Published: 02 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Architectures \| Backups \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Design \| Data Centers \| Multi-Tenant Units \| SAN \| Storage Security \| Switches \| TCO \| VMware

Effective Cabling Techniques for IBM BladeCenter Chassis sponsored by Panduit WHITE PAPER: This guide defines specific cabling techniques that simplify cable pathways and promote airflow for maximum cooling, ultimately improving overall system performance and uptime. Posted: 20 Aug 2010 \| Published: 20 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Cable \| Cable Network Industry \| IP \| IP Switching \| LAN \| LAN Switches \| LAN Switching \| Switches \| Systems Management

Ensuring you Get the Best Call Quality Available sponsored by RingCentral WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the 5 major factors that affects call quality, and offers a solution for these issues to ensure a top quality call experience. Posted: 18 Feb 2014 \| Published: 18 Feb 2014 TOPICS: IP Telephony \| QOS \| Routers \| Telephones \| Telephony Services \| Telephony Systems \| VoIP

Evaluating and Enhancing Green Practices with Cisco Catalyst Switching sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document describes the Green Operations and Characteristics of the Cisco® Catalyst® Series Switches. These Cisco Catalyst switch families offer the latest technologies to enable organizations to meet the green requirements of today while providing flexible architectures to address the necessities of tomorrow. Posted: 26 May 2010 \| Published: 01 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Network Appliances \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Networking Hardware \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

EX Series Ethernet Switches sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc. WHITE PAPER: High-performance businesses demand a high-performance network infrastructure that provides fast, secure and reliable delivery of the applications that drive the business. Switches deployed in regional offices, campuses and data centers enable these business processes by connecting users. Posted: 15 Nov 2011 \| Published: 15 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Energy Efficiency \| Ethernet Networks \| Ethernet Switches \| Gigabit Ethernet \| High Performance Computing \| Infrastructure Management \| LAN \| QOS \| Security \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| TCO \| WLAN

Extreme Networks Converged Infrastructure sponsored by Extreme Networks WHITE PAPER: Gain insight into the components of a converged data center network infrastructure using Ethernet that not only builds a more effective, efficient infrastructure but also saves costs, helping you truly achieve more with less. Posted: 28 Aug 2013 \| Published: 16 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Capital Expenditures \| Converged Networks \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Networks \| Ethernet Switches \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Private Cloud \| Private cloud computing \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Extreme Networks Solution with NEC sponsored by Extreme Networks WHITE PAPER: Explore how using a 1 GbE, 10 GbE, or 40 GbE hardware plane is critical to achieving the interoperability and multi-site capabilities needed for a successful software-defined networking (SDN) initiative. Posted: 29 Aug 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Switches \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Protocols \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Gorillas on Your List – A Diversified OEM Environment Can Lower Your Risk sponsored by Dimension Data WHITE PAPER: This informative whitepaper covers the value of breaking free from a single original equipment manufacturer and diversifying the commodities in your data center. Posted: 05 Feb 2014 \| Published: 15 Jan 2014 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Firewall Management \| Firewall Server Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Peripheral Hardware \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Routers \| Server Virtualization \| Switches

Guide to Deploying and Troubleshooting Video in the Enterprise sponsored by Fluke Networks WHITE PAPER: Recently, a study commissioned by Cisco® Systems made a prediction that added a new word to the lexicon of the network engineer and IT director: zetabyte. The study predicted that by 2013, two-thirds of a zetabyte of video traffic would be on corporate networks. Posted: 06 Dec 2010 \| Published: 06 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Bridges \| Network Management \| Streaming Video Software \| Troubleshooting \| Video Services \| Videoconferencing Systems

HP BladeSystem c-Class SAN Connectivity Technology Brief sponsored by PC Connection and HP WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the hardware and software required to connect HP BladeSystem c--Class server blades to Storage Area Networks1 (SANs) using Fibre Channel (FC) interconnect technology. Posted: 15 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| SAN \| Software \| Storage \| Switches

HP Networking Cisco Trade-in Program sponsored by Computer Design & Integration LLC WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses a trade-in program provided by HP to help you cost-effectively upgrade your infrastructure. Uncover which products are eligible and how to get started. Posted: 10 May 2011 \| Published: 10 May 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Networking \| Hardware \| Hardware Management \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Peripheral Hardware \| Switches

Improving Network Visibility with Advanced Packet Filtering sponsored by Ixia WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, explore a network monitoring switch tool that allows for advanced filtering to gain visibility into today's increasingly complex IT environment. Posted: 23 Oct 2013 \| Published: 31 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Network Capacity \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Switches

Improving Network Visibility with Advanced Packet Filtering sponsored by Ixia WHITE PAPER: Find out more about a network monitoring switch tool with advanced filtering options that can quickly resolve network problems and address future requirements. Posted: 28 Feb 2014 \| Published: 31 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Network Capacity \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Switches

Intelligence at the Physical Layer: Smart Cabling - Better Security sponsored by Siemon Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper details new intelligent infrastructure management system choices for secure data centers and network infrastructures. Posted: 20 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Cable \| Documentation \| Firewall Management \| IP Address Management \| IP Addresses \| Network Security \| ROI \| Routers \| TCO \| Workstations

Mixing Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet in a Dedicated SAN Infrastructure sponsored by Dell India WHITE PAPER: The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches. Posted: 12 Aug 2010 \| Published: 01 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Data Center Management \| Gigabit Ethernet \| iSCSI SAN \| Network Management \| SAN \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Switches

New Revenue Streams with MPLS Service Differentiation: Public Interoperability Event Test Plan and Results sponsored by RAD Data Communications WHITE PAPER: This interoperability event has been organized by the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), and hosted by Upperside. Posted: 30 Mar 2005 \| Published: 01 Jan 2004 TOPICS: Interoperability \| MPLS \| Performance Testing \| Routers \| VPN