In my final podcast interview at Interop Las Vegas ‘06, I chat with Tom Burns, who’s the senior vice president and general manager of Alcatel’s enterprise network infrastructure group. Last week Alcatel launched the OmniSwitch 6850 family of stackable 10/100/1000/PoE, 10-Gigabit workgroup switches, which are the first Alcatel switches to provide Gigabit power over Ethernet (PoE). Yep, the switch market is getting fairly commoditized, but Burns explains how Alcatel will to try stay ahead of the price-performance curve by adding new functionality like POE and security to its switches.
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Length: 16 minutes.
May 3rd, 2006 |
