The Year In Networking

It was a wild and woolly year in the networking space, which itself is getting harder and harder to define. Do we mean infrastructure? Telephony? Voice? Data center? The answer is all of the above, really, and many of the big stories that shaped the year in networking in effect ensured that the definition keeps changing.

The year brought a lot of change to the space and it wasn't always easy to keep tabs on what either the big networking titans or the smaller upstarts were intending to do. But as macroeconomic factors like the battle for net neutrality, the federal stimulus and the dour economy kept everyone's nose to the grindstone, one big, macro-level story about the networking space stood out among the rest.

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