Why Ethernet Always Wins: Celebrating 40 Years

By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: May. 13, 2013

In 1973, the United States launched Skylab, its first space station, and Pink Floyd sang about the “Dark Side of the Moon.” The same year, a technology was born that would revolutionize computing for the next several generations. This month, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ethernet.

Ethernet, the family of networking standards that enables computers to locally connect to each other, is still the ultra-strong backbone to the many networks we use every day. Its use has extended beyond …

SDN: A Sea Change in the Data Center

By: Nicholas Ilyadis Posted: May. 07, 2013

Short for Software Defined Networking, SDN has become the latest enterprise tech acronym to buzz around the data center — and rightfully so.

Information technology professionals are excited about the potential benefits of turning the complex task of provisioning, optimizing and monitoring network traffic over to software.

It’s one of the main themes of this year’s Interop trade show, which kicked off this week in Las Vegas and is set to feature workshops and panels that will ask crowds of network …

Interop 2013: Broadcom Helps Enterprises Embrace Advanced Networking

By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: May. 07, 2013

The Interop show in Vegas is in full swing, and IT professionals of all stripes are seeing the latest in the networking equipment that keeps businesses running.

They are also looking to spend money: according to an Infonectics report, enterprises are expected to spend an average of $12.7 million on their network infrastructure this year, a 15 percent increase over last year.

Driving these trends is “Growth, growth, growth,” notes Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at …

OFC in Anaheim: Optical Transport in Focus

By: Nicholas Ilyadis Posted: Mar. 18, 2013

When all of our communications were dominated by voice, circuit-based connections ruled the day for optical network deployments. Long-duration connections would exist between multiple points in a network, and information would flow between those points. Even if there was no information moving — the silence during a phone call, for example — those connections still existed and reserved their required bandwidth.

The world is different today. The rise of the Internet as the backbone of modern-day communications means that the …

Broadcom at Interop: Unprecedented Innovation for Next Gen Data Center, Green IT and Enterprise 2.0

By: Tamara Snowden Posted: May. 08, 2012

We’re excited to be in Las Vegas this week for the Interop show, where we’ll be showcasing the full line-up of our latest innovations enabling the next generation Data Center, Green IT and Enterprise 2.0. Visitors to our booth on the main show floor will get an up close and personal demonstration of our amazing technologies in action.

Terabit Anyone? In the Data Center area of our booth you will find our new 100GbE BCM88650 switch and BCM87550 fabric…

Broadcom at Interop: Next-Generation Data Centers Shift into High Gear

By: Isa Loundon Posted: May. 04, 2012

Ten years ago, data centers didn’t know how good they had it: businesses hummed along sending (relatively) small presentations and documents over the network with perhaps an occasional graphic or photo, as well. Today, data centers grapple with a massive amount of complex, real-time information including videos, multimedia decks and streaming web. In order to keep up, enterprise technology is moving forward at a rapid rate as it responds to many of the same trends that consumer face, such as …

Broadcom at Interop: Power Consumption Technology Plays Important Role

By: Isa Loundon Posted: Apr. 18, 2012

Whether you’re reading this post from your PC – or in today’s interconnected world, more likely your smartphone or tablet – there’s no denying the increase in devices that we all own for business and personal use. In fact, by 2020, the number of connected devices is expected to reach 50 billion – that’s six devices for every person on earth.

But it’s not just devices that consumers and professionals are using regularly. There’s a constant uptick in content consumption …

Why Being Fast, Fat and Flat Can Be a Good Thing!

By: Greg Scherer Posted: Apr. 09, 2012

There’s a lot discussion these days among network IT professionals about making the leap from 1 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) to 10GbE. In fact, I recently participated in a Wikibon Peer Incite discussion about this very topic. In a conversation titled “The Rise of 10Gb Ethernet and the Impact of Intel’s Xeon E5 Family of Processors,” we not only talked about the speed advantages of 10GbE but also some of the solutions (such as HP’s Flex-LOM architecture) that make it easier …

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