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Market Leaders Drive Investment in Switching

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Terabit switch chips and switch chipsets that scale up to 400 Tbit/s are making merchant switch chips very attractive for high-performance network systems against in-house ASIC and FPGA-based designs. The latest switch devices not only deliver on performance, but integrate additional system functions such as Ethernet MACs and programmable classification engines to support software-defined networking (SDN).

via Light Reading – Market Leaders Drive Investment in Switching – Telecom.

High-performance switch devices have become both more complicated and simpler. The devices integrate additional functionality with significant on-chip memory and packet processing functions. On the other hand, the interfaces for most protocols are moving to 10 Gbit/s for the current generation and 25 Gbit/s for the next generation.

HP Ships Network Switches With Malware Infected Flash Cards

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HP has warned of a security vulnerability associated with its ProCurve 5400 zl switches that contain compact flash cards that the company says may be infected with malware. The company warned that using one of the infected compact flash cards in question on computer could result in the system being compromised.

via HP Ships Network Switches With Malware Infected Flash Cards | SecurityWeek.Com.

In March 2012, a consortium of experts published a preview of standards meant to improve the security of the global supply chain for commercial software and hardware products. The standards are the work of The Open Group, and are supported by companies ranging from Boeing to Oracle to IBM. The document has been dubbed the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) Snapshot. The standards are being aimed at providers, suppliers and integrators with the goal of enhancing the security of the supply chain and allowing customers to differentiate between providers who adopt the standard’s practices and those who don’t.