Lippis Report 184: Network Services to Differentiate Next Generation of Campus Core Switches
Fall 2011 Open Industry Network Performance & Power Test Report
An exclusive cross vendor comparative test report conducted at Ixia's iSimCity defined by the Lippis Report. This report provides detailed test information on products that have not been previously tested in public, including the hottest data center switching products from Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Brocade, Dell/Force10, Extreme Hitachi, IBM, Juniper Networks, Mellanox and more.
During the middle of 2012, a few firms will introduce core switches for campus networking. Many of these products will be based upon merchant silicon such as HP Networking’s A10500 Series Enterprise Core Switch. While these products will boast performance advantage, they will find it difficult to win share against established firms such as Cisco’s Catalyst 6500, thanks to its investment in network services. In this Lippis Report Research Note 184, we explore the importance of network services and their role in campus network design.


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