Cisco's WLAN recovery speed challenged

The Tolly Group, a global provider of third-party validation services for IT vendors, has published a report showing that Trapeze Networks offers wireless networks that recover from failures 800 times faster than Cisco, says MarketWatch.

Specifically, The Tolly Group report says Trapeze Networks "delivers sub-second fail-over using Trapeze's clusters wireless controller approach, while a comparable Cisco solution results in network downtime of 9 to 12 seconds."

Trapeze Networks is making the report available free-of-charge online.

Obsidian Strategics and ADVA Optical Networking have partnered to bring the first-ever 100Gb Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing InfiniBand link to market, reports MarketWatch.

The joint solution combines new Obsidian's Longbow C Series and high-capacity ADVA optical transport technologies, enabling a powerful class of storage-area network, cluster-clustering, remote visualisation and data centre-expansion applications.

The technology will be demonstrated at the 2008 Supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas.

cPacket Networks and SMC Networks have jointly developed smart plug-in modules for SMC's 10Gb Ethernet switching solutions, reports WWPI.

The modules, which are designed around cPacket's unique "complete packet inspection” chip, will plug into SMC's products via the available XAUI interface.

The cPacket chip is capable of inspecting 100% of the header and data bits in 10 Gigabit traffic, and monitoring, filtering, and providing alerts based on triggering events at full wire speeds, under any traffic loads and with no impact on network performance.