Switching

PODCAST: Uncover the transformations that the data center network has gone through in recent years and how it has impacted end-users and the network. Then, learn about the next major transition and how you can prepare your computing architecture for what’s to come.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Premiered: 04 May 2012

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Avaya’s Product & Solutions Calculator Toolkit helps you discover how much you can save by switching to Avaya. Be sure to select the “Networking” product category as you enter your information.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Published: 03 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Legacy networks aren’t fulfilling the needs of modern organizations. Discover how software-defined networking (SDN) powered by the OpenFlow protocol can be a game changer for you by helping you achieve a next-generation network that satisfies all of today’s needs.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | Published: 28 Mar 2012

VIDEO: Jason Nolet, VP of Data Center and Enterprise Networking for Brocade, talks about the technical and business continuity benefits of deploying Ethernet fabrics for cloud architectures in the data center.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 26 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how combining the technologies of Ethernet fabric, distributed intelligence, and logical chassis can help you enable business-critical applications in the cloud.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

VIDEO: This brief video uncovers two new network products that will help you adapt to the demands of new applications and ever-changing business requirements.

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 29 Feb 2012

CASE STUDY: Discover the solution a city council used when redesigning its switching and telephony infrastructure that helped them support remote workers. Learn how they improved services and obtained substantial cost savings at the same time.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper discover how the Cisco Service Provider Next Generation Networks (IP NGN) works and how service providers are benefiting from this technology. Explore examples of configurations for different platforms and contrast the differences in the types of operating systems.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This six-page Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to cloud networking highlights the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals need to consider as they plan their networking  strategies.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Distributed core architectures can provide greater scalability, higher bandwidth, and higher resiliency for your network foundation for data centers to handle the amount of “big data” that is coming through networks today.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn more about a solution that will enable them to consolidate data and storage traffic onto one single consolidated data center fabric.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Virtualization has become a reality in the networking world. It is vital for professionals to understand how server virtualization and networks affect each other.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: There are some helpful things we can do with Cisco’s IOS to make our lives easier. This white paper will present some useful commands, followed (in parentheses) by their most concise shortcuts (at the time of this writing).

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. It can then make intelligent forwarding decisions based on the destination MAC address. This white paper illustrates the process.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009