Network World

Cisco’s virtual switch smashes throughput records

(See Nortel CTO’s take on this comparison.) At the heart of VSS is the Virtual Switching Supervisor 720-10G, a management and switch fabric blade for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches. VSS – which began ...
Ars Technica

Cisco plans virtual switch for Hyper-V in Windows Server 8

Cisco is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its virtual switch to Hyper-V next year when Windows Server 8 is released. While Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch already supports VMware ...
Network World

Cisco fires back at VMware decision to whack third party virtual switches

Cisco today said it would offer its virtual switch users technology to get around VMware’s recent elimination of support for third party virtual switches such as Cisco’s Nexus 1000V. VMware in March ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft's Partners Tap Hyper-V 3.0 Virtual Switch

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others. Implementations by those Microsoft ...
Computerworld

Cisco unveils the Nexus 7000, its biggest switch ever

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced the biggest switch by far in its history, the Nexus 7000, which is designed for mission-critical data center use. Starting at $75,000, the Nexus 7000 will ship in ...