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Andre Kindness, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, joins Zeus Kerravala, principal at ZK Research, and I for our annual predictions podcast. We discuss Cisco, IBM Network Systems, Huawei, Juniper, Extreme, Arista, Nicira, Big Switch, Verizon, AT&T, HP Networking, Citrix, F5, Riverbed, Brocade, Broadcom, Meru, Aerohive, Ruckus, Meraki, Infoblox, Palo Alto Networks, Polycom, Embrane, et al, and what 2012 will bring for them and you. Enjoy, Nick
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On Tuesday Auguest 16th a week before HP’s news of potentially exiting the PC business, Zeus Kerravala, Senior VP of Research at the Yankee Group and Andre Kindness Senior Analyst at Forrester Research joined me in a round table discussion to reflect on HP Networking. We assess HP Networking’s progress since it announced the acquisition of 3Com back in Nov of 2009 and its prospects for the future. In a word our mutual assessment is disappointment with major short and long-term threats from Huawei. But there is hope for the future if HP can create a bold new vision for the industry and execute it. If you are going to listen to one podcast this year about HP, this should be it.
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I am happy to announce the availability of the full test report results detailing the performance and power consumption measurements of the following companies’ products:
· Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniSwitch 10K,
· Arista’s 7504 Series Data Center Switch,
· BLADE Network Technologies’, an IBM Company, IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124 and IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264,
· Force10 Network’s S-Series S4810,
· Hitachi Cable’s Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR,
· Juniper Network’s EX Series EX8216 Ethernet Switch
· Voltaire®’s Vantage™ 6048
You’ll get:
· Detailed profiles of each product.
· Performance test results, including latency, throughput, congestion, IP multicast and cloud simulation.
· Power consumption measurements detailing how much energy each product consumes per 10GbE port with a projection of its energy cost per year and over three years.
· How the new ToR switches perform with the new Broadcom, Marvell or Fulcrum Micro chips that every vendor is starting to use.
· Anomalies explained such as Arista’s HOL blocking and back pressure detection during congestion test, or Hitachi’s 64Byte VLAN tag issue during latency test.
· Detailed recommendations on cloud network architecture and which products to use.
To view a sample and download your copy CLICK HERE
The Lippis Report is happy to announce the availability of the Spring 2012 round of industry data center switching performance, virtualization and power consumption test evaluating 10/40Gbps Ethernet fabrics. Lippis Enterprises has teamed with Ixia for the execution of this important cloud networking industry test. If your company produces 10GbE and/or 40GbE data center switches, then it is invited to participate free of charge.
Test week is scheduled March 25-30, 2012. Equipment suppliers have until end of day PT February 15, 2012 to signup for a test slot, but don’t wait until then, as test slots will be gone. There are only a few test spots available as we have received a number of commitments already. The test prospectus can be downloaded HERE detailing logistics, test methodology, schedule, test result promotion and FAQs.
CLICK HERE to download the Test Prospectus.
by Lippis Report Testing
This report details the test results of the Force10 Networks S-Series S4810 enterprise Top-of-Rack (ToR) Ethernet switch. All 48 10GbE ports of the Force10 Networks S-Series S4810 are populated and tested for performance, throughput, latency and power consumption. The Force10 Networks S-Series S4810 test results are then compared against IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264, Voltaire Vantage™ 6048 and Apresia 15K ToR switches.
To download the test report please CLICK HERE
by Lippis Report Testing
This report details the test results of the IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124 & G8264 enterprise Top-of-Rack (ToR) Ethernet switches. All 24 and 64 10GbE ports of the IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124 & G8264, respectively, are populated and tested for performance, throughput, latency and power consumption. The IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124 & G8264’s test results are then compared against Force10 Networks S4810, Voltaire Vantage™ 6048 and Apresia 15K ToR switches.
To download the test report please CLICK HERE
by Lippis Report Testing
This report details the test results of the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 10K enterprise core Ethernet switch. All 256 10GbE ports are populated and tested for performance, throughput, latency and power consumption. The OmniSwitch™ 10K’s test results are then compared against Juniper’s EX8216 and Arista Networks 7504 core switches.
To download the test report, please click here
Zeus Kerravala of the Yankee Group and I recorded our annual and very popular predictions for the coming year. We hit a lot of topics such as 2011 being the year of mobile computing thanks to the iPad and Androd tablets and the huge implications of a new tier of computing. MSFT Lynx fizzling, Extreme Networks rebounding, the rise of private clouds and desktop virtualization, a big IPO year coming, video conferencing adoption acceleration, Polycom not making it alone, wifi/3G/4G blurring, etc. This end-of-year, forward-looking Lippis Report podcast is one of our most popular, so we offer it to our subscribers as a holiday gift with wishes for a great holiday season and prosperous New Year.
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
Our industry is ramping up to build private and public cloud infrastructure, but IT architects do not have comparative 10Gigabit Ethernet Switch performance information to assist them in purchase decisions and product differentiation. New data center Ethernet fabric network design requires low latency, high performance under north-south plus east-west flows, low power consumption and minimum number of network tiers. During past industry cycles open industry tests contributed to growing the network market by shortening sales cycles due to the elimination of IT departments conducting internal performance test. In addition, performance question obstacles were eliminated during the sales cycle thanks to reliable industry data being available, speeding up market adoption. This was true in the LAN plus bridge/router industry battles as well as every major Ethernet switch evolution. There is no broad industry comparative 10GE modular switch performance test available.
Lippis Enterprises has developed a series of open industry performance tests and teamed with Ixia for their execution. The goal of the test is to provide the industry with comparative performance test data across all 10Gigabit Ethernet switch providers. While the main test is focused on modular switching products, fixed configuration switches are welcome too. The final test report will profile each supplier and segment products based upon modular or fixed configuration.
Download the prospectus now and sign up while there’s still room
By Nicholas John Lippis III
Network access has evolved rapidly as IT business leaders have embraced new network technology. Access methods such as wired, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), and mobile plus Virtual Private Network (VPN) methods have flourished over the past business cycle. In addition, a plethora of new endpoint devices have emerged using multiple access methods. But all of these network access approaches have evolved at different rates resulting in siloed networks that do not interact with each other, thus increasing IT operational cost and decreasing application portability and flexibility with user experience suffering. In this paper, we offer a new unified approach to network access that is based upon a thoughtful five-phase method to enable IT business leaders to simplify management, increase user experience and decrease operational cost.
Find out how to eliminate network silos by downloading this white paper:
