Ixia’s iSimCity laboratory in Santa Clara, CA was host to the Lippis Report’s test of the Supervisor Engine 2T (Sup2T), Cisco’s latest upgrade to its Catalyst 6500 switch. The Catalyst 6500 is not only Cisco’s most successful product with more than 700,000 systems sold, but the industry’s most widely-deployed enterprise Ethernet campus/data center switch. Read more »

With all sights set on expanding bandwidth and speed, 10/40 gigabit Ethernet promises to capture a lot of attention this year. 40GE switches are the new muscle cars that are beginning to power leading-edge enterprise networks. Virtualization and network convergence is driving huge volumes of traffic across data center switching fabrics. The capacity and forwarding performance of this fabric is critical to ensuring timely delivery of service and application traffic, and the associated end-user experience. Read more »

Ixia has drawn on its industry expertise and experience working with global customers, industry forums, and test labs to predict the networking industry's top trends for 2012. We expect growth to come from data center, wireless, security, IPv6, and Carrier Ethernet deployments. Check out our predictions for the following technology areas: Read more »

WHAT: Ethernet Alliance Webinar "Discussion on the Current State of Affairs for Data Center Convergence" 
WHEN: August 25, 2011 at 8:00am PT       Read more »

High-frequency trading corporations and other organizations that conduct time-sensitive transactions rely on ultra-low latency Top of Rack (ToR) switches in their data center cloud environments. The Dell’Oro Group says that ToR switches generated more than $500 million in revenues in 2010 with the sector growing 300% in Q2 alone. To take advantage of this growing market opportunity, leading infrastructure vendors are all “racing to zero” and trying to differentiate themselves by delivering the lowest possible latency performance. Read more »

Enterprise and data center managers who have not been concerned with ‘testing’ in the past are in for a rude awakening now that we’re in the era of the cloud. Server virtualization and cloud computing are fast-moving, game-changing technologies that impact all parts of the data center from the servers themselves to the load balancing mechanisms and the converged fabric infrastructure. Read more »

The Lippis Report recently published the first test results of a series of open industry benchmarking tests on several 10GbE switches targeted for use in public/private data center clouds. Included in the newly published online report are comparative vendor measurements from the first round of testing. The following data center switch vendors participated in the first round of testing at Ixia’s iSimCity:
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