June 1, 2009
More rough router numbers for Cisco, Juniper, others \
Network World
Cisco Subnet writes about the carrier router and switch market, which showed a decline in this year’s Q1.
“The carrier router and switch market in Q1 was down 13 per cent from a year ago, and 17 per cent sequentially, the deepest sequential decline in years, according to Infonetics Research. Carriers have pulled back spending to the point of being in full ‘protective behavior,’ according to the firm.”
Google Wave will change the way we communicate
ZD Net
Garett Rogers writes about Google Wave.
“With Google Wave, you can do traditional email-like conversations, live chat, share pictures, integrate with other services, and many other things that used to require separate applications. Google has also defined a protocol that defines what ‘Waves’ are, and how they are used. The first application to use that protocol is the open source Google Wave service. Since it’s open source, it would be very easy for anyone to start their own Wave server.”
AMD cuts Opteron prices pre-Istanbul
The Register
Timothy Prickett Morgan writes that AMD has lowered the prices for its Opteron line of processors for servers and workstations.
“The price cuts come as rival Intel is cranking up the pressure with its ‘Nehalem EP’ Xeon 3500s and 5500s for one and two-socket servers and as AMD is preparing to launch its six-core ‘Istanbul’ Opterons. AMD did not make a formal announcement of the price cuts, but a spokesperson for the company said that, generally speaking, the price cuts were a ‘waterfall,’ where chip prices all shift down one step in the models, which are ranked in ascending order by clock speed.”