Routers & Switches

Link Technologies' PoweRouter Alex Goldman
[May 9, 2008] Aiming to take on the Cisco 7200 series, Link Technologies has adapted MikroTik technology to high end deployments.

Cisco's Data Center of the Future Alex Goldman
[February 7, 2008] Ten gigabits per second today, 100 gigabits per second in the future, and, if you still need them, the single gigabit connections of a few months ago, all fit in the picture. Then, add services through an orchestrated system that can quickly bring online the necessary storage and network assets.

Gigamon's Multifunction Switches Alex Goldman
[February 5, 2008] These boxes can switch massive bandwidth in a variety of configurations, change on the fly, and support header-based filtering as well.

An OS For Switches Alex Goldman
[February 12, 2007] Switches don't need complex algorithms, updated daily, to catch most threats. Instead, the nimble application of human intelligence through elegant code can achieve real results.

Routers for the ISP and WISP Best of ISP-Lists
[January 3, 2007] WISPs discuss the routers they use, focusing on price and support.

Open Source Routers Alex Goldman
[October 12, 2006] The software has been available for some time, but a recent announcement made the project's products available to everyone.

A New Router, a New Direction for a Router Maker Alex Goldman
[June 9, 2006] Using open source software, a rational license policy, and modular hardware, this router company is challenging the marketplace with lower prices and all the features, carving out a cost conscious niche for itself.

Enterprise VoIP Router Alex Goldman
[March 7, 2006] ADTRAN builds on decades of voice experience with a new kind of router.

Coyote Claims a Lower Cost of Ownership Alex Goldman
[May 17, 2004] The company's main client base is big business. But for webhosts and ISPs with big business customers, a Coyote Point Systems Equalizer may provide the best price, without any sacrifice.

The Security and Voice Services Switch Alex Goldman
[December 18, 2003] The latest products from Quarry Technologies are designed to allow CLECs and ISPs to provide voice and security services over IP networks with the QoS of ATM or Frame Relay.

New NetVanta from ADTRAN ISP-Planet Staff
[January 31, 2003] ADTRAN continues its assault on the access router market with a two-slot router designed to serve a variety of small business Internet access needs.

Book Review: Border Gateway Protocol Patricia Fusco
[November 22, 2002] BGP is what keeps the Internet flowing. ISPs use BGP to inform each other which IP addresses go where. Are you making the most of BGP at your ISP?

Building a Smarter Gateway Alex Goldman
[October 25, 2002] CableLabs upped the ante on CPE with the release of the Cable Home 1.0 specification in April. Now Broadcom and Gatespace have responded by building a smarter DSL gateway.

Sockeye Gets Smarter Colin C. Haley
[October 23, 2002] Sockeye upgrades its data feed to improve the company's GlobalRoute service as it emerges from under the wing of key shareholder Akamai Technologies.

Redback Network's Smarter SmartEdge 800 ISP-Planet Staff
[October 14, 2002] The edge router market is one of the few sectors showing signs of life for equipment makers. For Redback Networks, mind share is just as important as market share.

A Carrier Class MPLS Edge Router Wayne Kawamoto
[September 26, 2002] Laurel Networks says NEBS level 3 certification validates the ST200 Service Edge Router's capabilities. The router is designed to assist in the provision of ATM, frame relay, Ethernet, Internet access, and VPNs.

ADTRAN Dares You to Compare Alex Goldman
[September 25, 2002] ADTRAN says that the market for access routers lacks competition, and has fired up a new, affordable, product. Any local ISP selling business services should take the ADTRAN challenge.

6WIND Router Integrates IPv4 With IPv6 Jim Thompson
[August 14, 2002] Because of its flexibility and programmable features, the 6100 series allows ISP operators to gradually deploy IPv6 services.

Cisco ISP Essentials Patricia Fusco
[August 5, 2002] Cisco IOS software documentation is extensive, but it's difficult to find what you need in a crisis. In a new book, Cisco Press has put its best principles into a single resource made for ISP operators.

ADSL Router With WLAN Wayne Kawamoto
[June 25, 2002] ZyXEL's Prestige 650HW router has both a wireless LAN and a four-port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch. The company claims it packs the functionality of three devices into one package.

Rebooting Cisco Routers Best of ISP-Lists
[June 12, 2002] Members of the ISP-Routing list discuss the stability of routers. Servers certainly have their problems, but surely the humble router can be left to itself?

Cisco Pads Its Stackable Switch Lineup Thor Olavsrud
[June 12, 2002] New Catalyst 3550 and 2950 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches target the needs of mid-sized network edge systems by offering advanced security features.

Midrange Gigabit Ethernet Aggregation Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[June 5, 2002] Foundry's EdgeIron 10GC2F provides a plethora of features including autosensing Ethernet ports and long distance LX and SX fiber options.

SSL Accelerator for Fast Security Wayne Kawamoto
[May 31, 2002] Radware's CertainT 100 - 1600 promises to process 1600 SSL transactions per second, providing unmatched speed and security for commercial transactions.

Cisco's Mid-Range Routers Wayne Kawamoto
[May 10, 2002] Cisco extends its 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, and 7600 series of routers with multiservice enhancements designed to help service providers deploy next-generation services.

Foundry Networks' New OS Wayne Kawamoto
[April 22, 2002] Foundry Networks' New IronWare 8.0R Operating System for its ServerIron 400/800 Web switch product line promises enhanced security and availability for service provider networks.

Enhanced Edge Router Product Family Wayne Kawamoto
[March 25, 2002] Tiara Networks' new routing products offer dual homed 10/100 Ethernet ports and enhanced options for DS3 access. A software upgrade now enables BGP4 routing.

Sockeye's Intelligent Routing Service Wayne Kawamoto
[December 12, 2001] Sockeye Networks claims its new routing service improves 70 percent of BGP routes and reduces bandwidth and network management costs up to 40 percent.

Let's Find a Better Route Bob Liu
[December 12, 2001] Enterprises are seeing the light and giving up on the old Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) method in lieu of "intelligent routing"; but as demand grows so too does competition.

2.4 GHz Outdoor Wireless IP Router Wayne Kawamoto
[November 28, 2001] The RNi 2400 Wireless IP Router is designed to provide ISPs with a new high-speed alternative.

Cygnet's Latest Gigabit Ethernet Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[November 19, 2001] The switch promises to reduce port cost, and Cygnet's embedded software should improve bandwidth provisioning, levels of service and allocation, and QoS.

Fighting Router DoS Jim Freund
[November 8, 2001] The latest form of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks targets routers. ISPs need to protect these vital infrastructure elements with tools ranging from common sense to the latest software.

Cheap Lucent Switch for Business Services Wayne Kawamoto
[October 29, 2001] Lucent's new PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 is designed to provide converged services in a device priced at $15,000, and also lower recurring backhaul costs for traditional as well as wireless ISPs.

Fast E-Commerce Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[September 24, 2001] F5's BIG-IP 5000's integrated SSL processing and switch port density features are designed to yield dramatic reductions in cost of ownership.

IPv6 Firewall Built In To Smart IP Access Routers ISP-Planet Staff
[September 20, 2001] Making its debut at Networld Interop 2001 in Paris, 6WIND showed off one of the first commercial IPv6 firewalls to be fully integrated into an IPv6 migration router, the 6WINDGate 6200 Series.

VPN Router for Small Business Wayne Kawamoto
[September 19, 2001] Netopia's latest CPE products provide broadband routing, integrated backup, and security in a single device for between $1,099 and $1,649.

The Packets' Path to Profitability Wayne Kawamoto
[September 12, 2001] RouteScience's rack-mountable PathControl device determines the optimal path for traffic in real time and automatically updates edge routers to better serve customers across an ISP's network.

Wave of New Products Eric Grevstad and the internetnews.com staff
[September 11, 2001] Before N+I opened today, a wave of new products had been released, spearheaded by two blockbusters—a new chipset from Intel and a new UNIX server from IBM.

Intelligent Media Converter Wayne Kawamoto
[August 27, 2001] Omnitron Systems Technology Inc.'s iConverter is designed to create robust fiber-to-copper conversions as well as convert various Ethernet types to create a robust optic LAN or WAN.

Converged Services in One Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[July 20, 2001] Oresis says its ISIS-700 carrier-class multiservice switch now offers circuit and packet-switched voice services in an integrated platform, made possible by interoperability with Taqua's OCX convergence switch.

T-1 WAN Card Wayne Kawamoto
[April 17, 2001] T-1 WAN card from Network Peripherals combines layer 3 switching with Internet access to potentially eliminate dedicated routers. Card is designed for NPI's Gigabit Ethernet switches.

Ethernet Through Phonelines Wayne Kawamoto
[March 3, 2001] D-Link's DHN-1000 bridge may provide an easy way for ISPs to connect a cable or DSL modem to HomePNA networks, which use phone lines to connect machines throughout a home.

2000

Optical Auto-Provisioning Routers Wayne Kawamoto
[November 4, 2000 ] Dynarc announes products that span from the edge of the network to the metro backbone, to be released during the first quarter of 2001.  

High-Density Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[September 15, 2000 ] Promises 12 times the channel density of general-purpose DSP-based alternatives, easing high-density Voice over IP (VoIP) deployment for ISPs, DLECs, and CLECs.

RADWARE's Newest Application Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[September 6, 2000 ] Promises gigabit load balancing performance, which should ensure high availability redundancy, scalability, and performance. It will begin shipping in Q-3, 2000.

Cheap Residential Router Alex Goldman
[August 9, 2000 ] Promises to let ISPs help users set up home networks. Easy-to-use setup software and cross-platform compatibility are key features. And it's just $199.

Hardware Switching and Traffic Management Lisa Phifer
[August 2, 2000 ] RADWARE's new Application Switch provides ASIC-based layer four server load balancing, creating a more robust platform for Internet traffic management by ISPs, web hosters, and ASPs.

Multi-port Ethernet Adapter Wayne Kawamoto
[June 9, 2000 ] ZNYX Networks claims its ZX370 series of 64-bit / 66 MHz PCI multi-port Fast Ethernet adapters and RAIN software speed up Fast Ethernet networks and make them more fault tolerant.

SDSL Router Wayne Kawamoto
[June 7, 2000 ] Enables ISPs to provision Internet access without complicated installations. Key features include interoperability with major DSL equipment, and firewall, DHCP, and Network Address Translation (NAT).

New Multi-Service Switch Wayne Kawamoto
[June 6, 2000 ] Offers a small and cost-effective frame relay and IP service creation platform

Next-Gen, Carrier-Class Access Switch from Lucent Wayne Kawamoto
[April 3, 2000 ] New multiservice device currently supports up to 2,688 ports per unit (up to 8000 in the future), accommodates voice, fax, and data on a single platform.

F5 Goes After Cisco With Improved Device Wayne Kawamoto
[March 7, 2000 ] F5's new version of its BIG/ip Controller enables improved traffic management. With recent DoS attacks in mind, F5 is also touting its security features.

Satellite DVB Router Wayne Kawamoto
  [February 23, 2000 ]  New router from Philips and Helius integrates satellite and traditional land-line Internet services into a single unit, increasing throughput to users by 200 to 400 percent.

Scalable Virtual Router   Wayne Kawamoto
[February 15, 2000]   New access server from Compatible Systems lets ISPs support VPNs for multiple customers with duplicate IP address ranges.

Affordable Carrier-Class Switching   Wayne Kawamoto
[February 9, 2000]   New line of high-density, high-availability switch-routers has industry-leading throughput, offers integrated policy-based QoS.

Ultra-High Performance IP Core Router   Wayne Kawamoto
[February 1, 2000]   Foundry Netoworks's newest iron delivers up to 256 Gbps of switching capacity / 90 million packets per second throughput.

1999

All-Optical Router Announced   Wayne Kawamoto
[December 3, 1999]   Lucent Technology plans to ship the world's first all-optical router by June 2000. The lightning fast device will be the centerpiece of the all optical network.

Warp-Speed (OC192) Network Tested   Ted Stevenson
[November 4, 1999]   Lucent and Global Crossing joined forces to build the world's first 10 Gbps IP network. Lucent's 6.4 terabit switch/router kicks routing into a new orbit.