Top 10 Ethernet Switch Stories Of 2008

摘要

In terms of significant announcements, 2008 did not disappoint in Ethernet switching: Juniper entered the market, Cisco unveiled its next-generation platform, and other major vendors consolidated. It will be hard for 2009 to match. Here's a countdown of the top 10 stories for the year soon to pass. Three major vendors - Foundry Networks, Enterasys Networks and Force 10 Networks -used the bright lights of Interop New York in September to unveil switching upgrades for next-generation environments, such as those supporting video, unified communications, IPv6 and embedded security Some of the offerings underscore the trend towards tackling these requirements on behalf of smaller businesses and workgroups rather than core data centers, which vendors view as a high-growth subset of the overall enterprise switching market.