Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 at 6:41 pm
An analyst last week told enterprise IT and network professionals they will toss away more than $10 billion on Gigabit Ethernet LAN gear over the next two years that would be better spent on technologies designed to support increasingly distributed workforces.
“The majority of network designers continue to be caught in traditional design practices,” said Mark Fabbi, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, speaking at the company’s Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco. “They continue to spend money on bigger and faster core networking technologies at their headquarters and large locations that don’t actually serve the user population.”
