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That’s a Wrap! Interop ’13 Brings SDN into Focus

 By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: May. 09, 2013

This year at Interop, top IT professionals, bloggers and industry analysts converged in Las Vegas to see the future of networking on display.

As for Broadcom, the company announced products that are driving the next wave of networking innovation: Enabling enterprise and SMB-level companies to adopt the cloud and deploy other advanced networking technologies and bringing the power of big data to every business, regardless of size.

Broadcom also released an advanced enterprise access point system-on-a-chip, (read: mega router …

Keynote Recap: Exploring the Power and Potential of Next-Gen Networking at Interop

 By: Sam Diaz Posted: May. 08, 2013

To get a sense of the excitement, anticipation and even — dare we say it, anxiety — around the fast-approaching Software Defined Networking trend, look no further than this week’s Interop conference in Las Vegas.

The SDN discussion is everywhere  — in the workshops, on the panels, at the show floor booths and, earlier today, the main keynote stage.

Rajiv Ramaswami, executive vice president and general manager of Infrastructure & Networking Group at Broadcom, was joined on Wednesday …

On Deck at Interop 2013: Simplifying With SDN

 By: Sam Diaz Posted: May. 07, 2013

Is Software Defined Networking, or SDN, ready for prime-time? It’s a question that was posed to a panel of industry experts at the Interop conference in Las Vegas today – and one that’s not easily answered.

But, Ram Velaga, Broadcom’s vice president and general manager of network switches in the Infrastructure & Networking Group and a panelist at today’s session, offered up a simple— and perhaps better—counterpoint to the complex question: Industry adoption of Software Defined Networking is a matter …

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 …

Interop Preview: Network Infrastructure in the Spotlight

 By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: May. 06, 2013

As you’re reading this blog post, a myriad networking processes are happening quietly in the background: data in the form of bits and bytes appears on your screen, parsed and sorted on command by switches, likely sourced and stored in massive data centers where servers comprise this nebulous thing we call “the cloud.”

Considering that all of this occurs at blink-and-you-miss-it speeds and goes virtually unnoticed by the user, the technology is pretty impressive.

At Broadcom, we live and breathe …

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 …

Three-Time Winners: Broadcom Again Nabs Market Leadership Award

 By: Greg Scherer Posted: Mar. 04, 2013

The third time is definitely the charm for Broadcom’s Ethernet Controller group.

We’ve again been lauded by IT Brand Pulse, an independent market research firm that conducts surveys to determine end-user perceptions of the top industry vendors. They look at overall market leadership, performance, innovation, reliability, service/support and price.

In the IT Brand Pulse 2013 Brand Leadership Survey, Broadcom not only won the Ethernet Local Area Network-on-Motherboard (LOM) Market Leadership award for the third straight year, we also …

StrataXGS® Trident II Design Team Awarded by Electronic Products

 By: Natalie Martinez Posted: Feb. 07, 2013

It’s not every day that Broadcom’s hardworking engineers get recognized for their innovations, especially when their work deals in the particulars of managing the complex back-end of cloud networks. This week, the team that designed the StrataXGS® Trident II was lauded after the switch series was named one of the 2012 Products of the Year by Electronic Products magazine.

The award is an important triumph in the team’s collective careers, said Jim Harrison, the magazine’s West Coast editor, “as …

Broadcom Takes on BYOD: It Starts in the Network

 By: Nicholas Ilyadis Posted: Jan. 28, 2013

Gartner has called the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend the “single most radical shift” in business computing since the PC invaded the workplace – and Broadcom is gearing up for even greater momentum around BYOD in 2013 with technologies that will address the challenges head-on.

For office workers, BYOD means more flexibility for the work environment, which makes them more productive while also allowing them to have a better work-life balance. But for IT departments, BYOD can be a …

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