Social networking icon Facebook -- perhaps with a deserved emphasis on "networking" -- announced that is now expanding its Open Compute Project in an effort to take a fresh look at enterprise-level switch design. Facebook is hoping OCP will yield a high-end,…
Posted January 25, 2013, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
Cisco Systems, the world’s biggest maker of computer-networking equipment, is looking to further distance itself from the consumer space with the sale of its home networking business unit to Belkin for an undisclosed amount. The transaction includes the company’s Linksys…
Posted December 17, 2012, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Cisco Systems has reportedly hired financial services company Barclays to help find a buyer for Linksys, a well-known brand with regards to routers, according to unnamed sources as first reported by Bloomberg. Television set makers might make great targets for…
Posted October 24, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
HP CEO Meg Whitman tackled a number of tough questions and laid out plans for the company moving forward during a keynote speech at the Gartner Symposium expo in Orlando, Florida earlier today.
Western Digital, a company who is better known for its enduring legacy in storage solutions, announced that it will be dipping its toes into the consumer wireless network market. The company unveiled four new home router products that will cover…
Posted July 12, 2011, 11:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
Cisco Systems, the largest networking-equipment company, may cut as many as 10,000 jobs (about 14 percent of its workforce) to revive profit growth. The number is not yet official; it comes from two people familiar with the plans cited by Bloomberg.
Posted June 1, 2011, 5:59 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Cisco has released its fifth annual Visual Network Index Forecast, predicting a rapid growth in Internet traffic and connected devices in the coming years. By 2015, the company believes global Web traffic will quadruple, reaching 966 exabytes per year. Cisco…
Posted April 13, 2011, 3:17 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News
As part of the company's comprehensive plan to align its operations, Cisco has announced that it will exit aspects of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining parts to support four of its five key company priorities: core routing, switching/services,…
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