As the Internet expands and data centers multiply, networking hardware is only getting more power-hungry.
Jean Calvignac, an IBM fellow with IBMs Networking Hardware Division at Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, N.
After the deal closes, Belkin will have about 30% of the U.S. market for home and small business networking hardware.
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In addition to phones, tablets and Internet video appliances, Motorola sells wireless home networking hardware, two-way radios and baby monitors.
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Boston's venture gamblers are shy about concept-driven Web sites, but they are quite willing to back pragmatic engineers and new networking hardware.
The deal took place as part of a transaction in which Hayes took his company public by merging it into the already public Access Beyond, a small vendor of networking hardware.
Dai, a native of Shanghai, bragged about her lack of hobbies, scheduled every weekend full of meetings and knew every major player in the world of networking hardware and consumer electronics.
While much innovation and new investment in the US has moved to software driven areas such as social networking, hardware is the base that this software runs on.
The power of energy efficient lighting is not just in the emerging hardware, but in the software and networking that can maximize that hardware to deliver widespread economic benefit and truly change the way lighting is managed today.
As the world s second-biggest electronics manufacturer-for-hire, they ve seen them all: smartphones, storage hardware, networking switches.
With such capability you can move and reconfigure not just virtual machines but hardware and networking configurations.
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The ensuing commodification of the hardware however endangers the traditional business model of networking vendors such as Juniper that have relied on hardware complexity to drive margins.
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Bigfoot Networks is a leading networking technology company that develops hardware and software solutions that significantly improve the online gaming experience.
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") IBM, for its part, has partnered with networking companies Juniper and Brocade to resell their hardware to its data center customers. (See: "IBM's Neutral Networking Play.
Enterprises and service providers are demanding more programmability and therefore flatter networking architectures that decouple the software from the hardware so that it decreases physical complexity and allows networks to scale out through virtualization.
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The new hardware will support the next major wireless networking standard, best known by the name IEEE 802.11g.
Shenzhen-based networking firm Huawei has become an explosively growing force in communications hardware.
It would not be terribly hard for Apple to upgrade its Airport line of wireless home-networking products to increase data-transmission speeds and create a new hardware device that allows users of its iTunes music software to play their music on home stereo systems.
The networking vendor announced Tuesday a multi-year strategy that will help it embrace the ongoing transition in the networking world towards flatter, more scalable architectures in a way that stops hardware from being commoditized completely.
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According to Holzle, things that were hard to do on processors embedded in a networking box become much easier when they separately designed and merely communicated to the hardware using OpenFlow.
Hardware is evolving rapidly into dynamic blocks of utility computing (and storage and networking) that can be standardized, widely deployed, and efficiently utilized.
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