10GbE DC Fabric Test Vendor Announcement
Nick Lippis of the Lippis Report announces the participating vendors in the 10GbE Data Center Network Fabric test at the iSimCity lab during the week of Dec 6-10, 2010. Watch it here
The Visibility Fabric Architecture–A New Approach to Traffic Visibility
by Gigamon
The volume of digital information created and replicated will grow from 1.8 trillion gigabytes in 2011 to 7.9 trillion gigabytes in 2015. IDC
By 2014 70% of IT risk and security officers in the Global 2000 will be required to…
Best Practices for Network Monitoring
By Ixia/Anue
IT teams are under big pressure to improve the performance and security of corporate networks. Monitoring for security, compliance, and performance requires getting the right data to the right monitoring tool for analysis. This paper describes the capabilities of…
A Software-Defined Networking Approach to Branch Office Routing
by Nick Lippis
Cloud and mobile computing deployment has accelerated at a fantastic pace over the last five years, changing the economics of where computing and storage are located, how applications are written and accessed, and most importantly, how corporate computing…
Ixia/Anue ‘s Larry Hart On Its SDN Network Visualization Strategy
As the need for visibility of applications flowing inside networks grows, network architecture itself is changing thanks to network plus server virtualization in data centers, and now Software-Defined Networking. Also trends like BYOD, virtualization, and application mobility are bringing complexity…
Open Industry Active-Active Cloud Network Fabric Test for Two-Tier Ethernet Network Architecture
For the first time in the networking industry a benchmark has been created to measure a cloud network fabric that utilizes active-active protocols. In the Open Industry Active-Active Cloud Network Fabric Test for Two-Tier Ethernet Network Architecture report, Arista, Avaya,…
Gigamon’s Shehzad Merchant On The Killer SDN App: Network Visualization
As the need for visibility of applications flowing inside networks grows, network architecture itself is changing thanks to network plus server virtualization in data centers, and now Software-Defined Networking. Also trends like BYOD, virtualization, and application mobility are bringing complexity…
Lippis Report 207: The Killer SDN Applications: Network Virtualization and Visualization
At the last Open Networking User Group (ONUG) meeting in Boston organized with partner Fidelity Investments, it became very clear that there are two killer SDN applications: network virtualization and visualization. Some argue that network virtualization used for VM-VM networking is…
The Visibility Fabric Architecture–A New Approach to Traffic Visibility
The volume of digital information created and replicated will grow from 1.8 trillion gigabytes in 2011 to 7.9 trillion gigabytes in 2015. IDC
By 2014 70% of IT risk and security officers in the Global 2000 will be required to report…
The Open Industry Network Performance & Power Test for Cloud Networks Evaluating 10/40 GbE Switches Winter 2013 Edition
The Arista 7150S-24 SFP Data Center Switch is the fastest Top of Rack Switch we have ever tested in this series of public test. Find out just how fast the 7150S-24 can forward packets in your network by reviewing the…
The Virtual Blind Spot Best Practices for Monitoring Virtual Environments
By Ixia/Anue
The “many in” notions that VMs are built upon become problematic when trying to trace a packet, or analyze packet flow. Even worse, in most organizations, the teams that handle the physical network are different than those that handle…





