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Ex-Cisco CTO Warrior Signs On With Chinese Electric Car Maker

Padmasree Warrior, one of a number of top executives at Cisco Systems who left the company earlier this year when Chuck Robbins was tapped...

Longtime F5 CEO Returns to Post in Management Shakeup

John McAdam, who led application delivery technology vendor F5 Networks as president and CEO for 15 years, is returning to the job after the...

Pluribus Unveils SDN Fabric for Virtualized Networking

Pluribus Networks wants to make the complex task of running and managing physical and virtual networks as a single unit easier.The startup this week...

Broadcom Grows Protocol Support in WICED IoT Chips

Broadcom is adding to its portfolio of processors aimed at the Internet of things (IoT) with a family of low-power chips that support a...

Cradlepoint Buys Pertino in SD-WAN Deal

Cradlepoint, a 4G LTE provider based in Boise, Idaho, has bought network virtualization startup Pertino to expand its ability in the growing software-defined WAN...

Apple’s Enterprise Business Expanding at Expense of PCs: Analyst

When Apple CEO Tim Cook lauded his company's enterprise sales growth during a recent earnings event, the figures he quoted got the immediate attention...

Nokia Shareholders Approve $16.6 Billion Deal for Alcatel-Lucent

Nokia shareholders this week endorsed the company's $16.6 billion proposal to buy Alcatel-Lucent in a bid to create a major competitor to such networking...

How a Power Company’s Mobile Plan Eased a Neighborhood Power Outage

We had a power outage in my neighborhood on Dec. 1, and I'm glad it happened because it again proved to me the power...

Cisco, Brocade, HPE Among Top Networking Vendors: IHS

Cisco Systems, Avaya and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are among the top players in the competitive enterprise networking market, according to analysts with IHS.In its...

Bing Maps Adds Traffic Cameras, Just in Time for Holiday Driving

Bing Maps has added live images from more than 35,000 traffic cameras across the United States and 10 other nations to its online maps,...