Software-defined networking centralizes control logic and argues for generic switch hardware -- and should drive strong adoption of white-box switches With all the hubbub around software-defined ...

In Network World’s first hands-on assessment of the new 10G Ethernet switches, we put boxes from five major vendors through a comprehensive set of performance tests – both 1 and 10 Gigabit flavors of ...

Despite the clear cost benefits, white-box switches outfitted with independent network operating systems (NOS) solutions have seen only limited adoption in leading enterprise IT shops. That’s due to ...

If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that ...

An Ethernet switch is a switch-type hub used when building a network with a wired connection via Ethernet, and is also called a switching hub. The switching function reads the destination address in ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. New network ...