It's crunch time for Cisco Systems' next-generation core router--the company wants to recover ground lost to rival Juniper Networks. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

HP ProCurve has launched a core switch that it hopes will challenge Cisco's market dominance. The 8212zl, launched on Monday, is a scalable chassis core switch platform with 692Gbps switch capacity ...

Despite Cisco positioning as a “fabric” or “central nervous system” for installed CRS core and ASR edge routers, Cisco’s new NCS Network Convergence System indeed appears to be an eventual successor ...

Cisco this week is upgrading its Internet core routers with the CRS-X, a system whose capacity is 10x that of what the initial CRS offered when introduced 10 years ago. The CRS-X, which will be ...

There was an incredible amount of hype leading up to Cisco's announcement of a new core router, the CRS-3. Typically, router announcements are not covered in detail by the mainstream press, but with ...

In its ninth announced acquisition of 2023, the tech giant revealed plans to buy Working Group Two to “turbo charge” the recently announced Cisco Mobility Services platform. Cisco Systems on Thursday ...

T-Mobile US promised a host of customer and operational benefits after Cisco completed deployment of a cloud-native 5G core gateway, the operator’s latest bid to best its rivals in terms of progress ...

Wondering what networking giant Cisco Systems has up its sleeve? Mario Mazzola is the man to ask. Mazzola, the company's chief development officer, is one of the most influential executives in the ...

The Navigate To Accelerate initiative, a collection of programs that instruct and enable partners to focus on finance, their customer base, changing needs and the future, was officially launched late ...

Cisco plans to acquire cloud-native mobile core developer Working Group Two (WG2) for $150 million. In a lengthy statement, the tech giant noted that the acquisition will enable it to bolster its ...