In this interview,
we talk with Tom Burns, the senior vice president and general manager
of Alcatel's enterprise network infrastructure group. Last
week Alcatel launched the OmniSwitch 6850 family of stackable
10/100/1000/PoE, 10-Gigabit workgroup switches, which are the first
Alcatel switches to provide Gigabit power over Ethernet (PoE).
The switch market is getting fairly commoditized, but Burns explains
how Alcatel will to try stay ahead of the price-performance
curve by adding new functionality like POE and security to its
switches.
