Cisco is optimistic about the opportunities for Wi-Fi 6 in the near term and expects massive proliferation to reach clients by early 2020. “Cisco is really focused on bringing 5G and WiFi 6 together ...

Aruba Networks is bringing its mobile cloud-first software directly into the heart of corporate networks with its first ever core switch aimed squarely at displacing Cisco's popular Catalyst line of ...

NEW YORK — As Cisco wraps up migrating its Catalyst 6500 installed base to either the E-series chassis or the Nexus platform, the company has plenty on tap next year for the venerable core switch.

We're upgrading some VMware hosts, and the new ones will have NICs that far outclass our core switches, which are Cisco 4500X series 10G switches, which have SFP+ ports. The new servers come with ...

Thanks to AMD's Data Processing Unit, two new Cisco switches offer security functions in the data center that would otherwise be performed by a firewall. At its in-house trade fair Cisco Live EMEA, ...

Wondering what networking giant Cisco Systems has up its sleeve? Mario Mazzola is the man to ask. Mazzola, the company's chief development officer, is one of the most influential executives in the ...

The Navigate To Accelerate initiative, a collection of programs that instruct and enable partners to focus on finance, their customer base, changing needs and the future, was officially launched late ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

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. Cisco ...