The last thing you want is to configure your routing protocol to turn VPLS into a frame-relay style network with all traffic routing through a hub site. VPLS looks like a great technology for a small ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

Cisco Systems plans to acquire Parc Technologies, a maker of server routing software, for roughly $9 million, the companies said Thursday. Parc, based in London, specializes in the development of ...

Cisco and Vodafone have teamed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to demonstrate new network slicing techniques via segment routing, which is expected to be a vital component ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Building enterprise networks with routers and switches ...

Cisco Systems on Thursday agreed to buy up the remaining portion of routing software startup BCN Systems that it didnt already own. The Santa Clara, Calif., startup brings to the table a software ...

IP routing guru Tony Li has returned to Cisco Systems. A Cisco representative confirmed that Tony Li officially started work at Cisco on Monday. He will be working with former colleagues from Procket ...

Routers accept data packets and forward them to a list of destinations it knows about. These destinations can be other routers, or the intended destination of a computer communicating through the ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Cisco has announced that it has acquired Code BGP, a privately held Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) monitoring company based in Greece. The Code BGP team consists of ...

Tony Li, one of the biggest names in IP routing, is back at Cisco, where he started his career in 1991. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, ...