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A study of 180,000 switches measuring data centre performance over a three-month period found those running SONiC OS twice as reliable as others using alternate operating systems.

Failed satellite firm OneWeb has been offered a lifeline as it formally emerged from bankruptcy on Friday.

The UK has a “significant equity stake” in the company, as part of a consortium with India’s Bharti Global, after winning a bidding war in July.

Enterprise IT giant HPE has acquired Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) company Silver Peak for a deal valued at $925 million.

Silver Peak will be combined with HPE’s Aruba Networks once the transaction is approved by regulators.

Cisco patches multiple flaws in authentication mechanisms of Data Center Network Manager platform Users of Cisco Systems’ Data Center Network Manager have been told to apply software updates released Thursday to fix three authentication vulnerabilities. The networking giant said there are no workarounds to the flaws that could allow hackers to bypass authentication and execute… Read More

Cisco has entered the silicon routing space with the launch of what the company claims is the industry’s first universally adaptable networking chip architecture.

The networking giant said the new single-chip architecture, dubbed Silicon One, will handle data far better than processors currently found in networking and switching gear, as well as providing the versatility needed to support complex new technologies like 10G and adaptive cyber security.