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Sun Microsystems veteran David Yen - who has spent the past three years leading Juniper Networks Stratus R&D project that culminated in the launch of its QFabric data centre network technology in February - has joined arch rival Cisco to become general manager of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualisation Technology Group.

Cisco has made an oblique response to Juniper's QFabric data centre network announcement with a blog posting claiming it has been shipping data centre network products based on a fabric architecture for several years, but which leaves the definition of fabric unspecified.

Juniper has unveiled the fruits of its four year $US100m R&D Stratus project to develop a new single tier architecture for data centre networks, claiming not only that it enables massively increased efficiencies and lower costs but that it will usher in huge increases in available computing power by removing the limitations on multiple computer networks imposed by present day network topologies.