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The evolution of Ethernet (videos)

by Roberta Prescott
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The past, present and the future of the Ethernet were deeply debated at the Ethernet’s 40th birthday celebration. During the two-day event, Ethernet creators and vendors talked about what’s next, the impact of the cloud, software-defined networking and new datacenter demands. RCR Wireless News spotlighted these issues in video interviews at the event:

Ethernet and the cloud
Erin Dunne, director of research services at Vertical Systems Group, shared her thoughts on how content providers and carriers are scrambling to build datacenters.

SDN is not the future: it’s now
IDC’s vice president for network infrastructure, Rohit Mehra, talked about how software-defined networking (SDN) is already getting results and commented on the global challenges SDN addresses.

The evolution of datacenter solutions
Several industry leaders commented on the way datacenters have evolved:

Sean Hackett, managing director at 451 Research

Dom Wilde, HP vice president

Arpit Joshipura, Dell vice president of product marketing

Dhritiman Dasgupta, Juniper senior director of product marketing

The new wireless LAN standard
Chris Depuy, vice president at Dell’Oro Group, discussed current trends in wireless LAN standards.

Check out all of the videos from the Ethernet’s 40th anniversary

NetEvents provided travel costs to California.

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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.