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HP slashes port cost, stays in wiring closet
News Hewlett-Packard has brought the cost of Layer 3 switches down to 125 euros (£76) per 10/100 port, but is staying out of the network core. Although the new products extend its Procurve wiring closet range higher, the company is still sticking with...
[April 23, 2002, 14:42]
Buffers, Queues and Thresholds on Catalyst 6500 Ethernet Modules
White Papers With the wide variety of Ethernet modules currently available on the Catalyst 6500 series switches, determining the size of the port buffers, the number and type of the receive and transmit queues, and the number of tail-drop or Weighted Random...
[May 8, 2009, 4:19]
HP pushes Gigabit to the desktop
News Hewlett-Packard has launched four Procurve switches that bring Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop, and continue its usual low-cost high-value approach to Ethernet networking. Both these switches are low-cost, unmanaged products, aimed at small...
[November 4, 2002, 10:45]
Switch consolidation
Blog Before now all devices in the house have been connected to one of 3 switches: a 5 port gigabit switch (4 usable ports, 1 for uplink), a 24 port managed 10/100 switch, and a 4 port managed gigabit switch (3 usable ports, 1 for uplink.
[June 19, 2008, 9:20]
Foundry takes Gigabit Ethernet to next level
News The new FastIron II switches, which will cost about $650 (£403) per port for any copper Gigabit configuration, are compliant with the recently completed IEEE 802.3ab standard for Gigabit Ethernet over Category 5 twisted-pair.
[August 19, 1999, 12:16]
Plummeting prices hit Ethernet switch firms
News Demand for Ethernet switches is growing, but drastically falling prices are making it difficult for vendors to increase their revenue, according to new research. Ten-gigabit Ethernet products are most attractive to customers that are migrating...
[February 16, 2004, 11:00]
Dell PowerConnect 5324 and Dell PowerConnect 3324: Functionality Certification and Competitive Interoperability Evaluation
White Papers Tolly Group engineers put the PowerConnect switches through a battery of tests along with seven other switches from five vendors to reveal the depth of interoperability each switch provides. These tests demonstrate that the Dell PowerConnect 5324...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
HP's ProCurve targets Cisco
News HP claims that the 24-port and 48-port switches offer similar functionality to Cisco's Catalyst 3750G-16TD, a 16-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, for a fifth of the price. But as costs fall for Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces...
[November 2, 2004, 7:29]
Quintum Tenor ASM200 review
Reviews With a choice of either analogue or ISDN digital interfaces, the Tenor family includes switches capable of handling up 120 calls at a time. However, we were only interested in long line extension: to this end, Quintum supplied two switches, one of...
[May 6, 2005, 12:25]
Dell switches reach UK - Layer 3 box planned
News Managed switches include a stackable 24-port switch with two Gigabit links at £464 and extend up to the 5224, a 24-port all-Gigabit switch for £1758. Much like the HP switches launched last week, the Dell switches include 48-port switches in 1U...
[November 11, 2002, 5:00]
Avaya and Extreme produce SME bundle
News The Extreme switches included in the bundle are the Summit 200 (24 and 48 port), 300 (24 port) and X450e (24 and 48 port). Small businesses will be offered Avaya's IP Office PBX and Extreme's Summit edge switches.
[April 13, 2007, 15:22]
HP says 'life means life' for switch warranties
News All the switches are stackable, including the two new higher-end models: the 24-port 2810 24G, which costs £1,172, and the 48-port, 2810 48G, which costs £2,187. HP has laid down a challenge to 3Com and Cisco with the launch of five new Layer 2...
[August 29, 2006, 15:25]
HP and Cisco battle over network security
News Cisco currently has the largest market share for network switches, with HP's ProCurve division in second place, according to a recent ProCurve survey. Procurve said on Monday that its latest range of network switches will offer more security features.
[February 13, 2006, 12:15]
HP puts together product package for SMEs
News The switches also are designed to reduce power consumption through variable speed fans on the 24-port models and a fanless design on the eight-port models, and to cut power for unused ports and LEDs. The managed switches also offer an open...
[November 10, 2009, 16:39]
Acer TravelMate 6463WLMi review
Reviews The front of the casing house the infrared port and slider switches for toggling Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off. Both switches were present in our review device even though Bluetooth itself was not installed (you get on-screen ‘Enabled’ and...
[March 21, 2007, 8:10]
ProCurve Switch 2610-24-PWR review
Reviews Switches from the previous range, called the ProCurve 2626, were somewhat larger, more expensive and were less suitable for networks with a small number of PoE devices. All the other connectors, along with two recessed reset switches, are on the...
[May 14, 2008, 16:08]
N+I: 3Com fleshes out LAN-building plan
News In an interview with ZDNet UK, the company's vice president of marketing and business strategy, Karen Oddey, said the company's "big idea" is to put together the best features of stackable and chassis switches, combining high reliability with...
[May 10, 2002, 11:13]
3Com switch aims for the 10-Gigabit future
News 3Com is gearing up for the days when one-gigabit-per-second connections at the desktop are the norm, with the launch of its latest range of network switches this week. It is aimed at companies that need a Gigabit Ethernet switch today, but want to...
[May 14, 2004, 13:45]
port channeling
Talkback Hi All, what balancing algorithm can be used in a port channel between 2 6509 switches to handle both L2 and L3 ether channels? Kindly explain the switching and routing of packets on port channel in detail and if possible with sample configuration.
[May 22, 2008, 11:33]
Healthcare Company Manages Rapid Data Growth and Reduces Storage Management Costs
White Papers The Oakwood data storage team wanted to expand and upgrade their SAN, which was based on small 8-port fabric switches. Oakwood Healthcare System, which serves over a million people in 35 communities with four acute-care hospitals and more than 40...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
