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Please contact:
Jeff Claudino
Director of Sales, Insider Research Services
619-229-9940
or via email at:
claudino@lightreading.com |
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| Data Center Switch Chipsets: Balancing Performance & Cost |
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The data center has quickly become the leading application for 10-Gbit/s Ethernet. Silicon vendors have responded to this market shift by introducing switch chipsets to address the particular needs of the data center.
Data center consolidation and growing traffic place severe strains on the network infrastructure in many installations. Rack-mounted servers, blade servers, and high-density storage systems can drive multiple 10-Gbit/s interfaces, and cost-effective silicon solutions are needed to allow system manufacturers to meet this demand. The networking technology used and the resulting data center performance depends heavily on the capability of the latest silicon solutions.
The introduction of these highly integrated switch devices and chipsets is giving the data center network a much-needed boost. Cost-effective top-of-rack switches with up to 48 10-Gbit/s Ethernet ports and highly capable modular switches are now available from both existing suppliers and new entrants. By using the latest switch devices and chipsets, these vendors are delivering systems that will make a significant difference to server and data center performance.
Data Center Switch Chipsets: Balancing Performance & Cost includes information and analysis on more than 50 high-speed switch chipsets and devices from 10 suppliers, covering 10-Gbit/s Ethernet, PCI Express, InfiniBand, and proprietary switching technologies. Switching technologies and their primary applications are detailed and compared, and key performance data is presented for the latest products. The report also includes a competitive analysis of vendor strategies for each high-speed chipset product sector.
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 Table of Contents (cci0109toc.pdf) |
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| Integrated 10GE switch devices are now available from four companies supporting eight to 48 10GE ports. These integrated switch devices can be used standalone in top-of-rack switches, stackable 10GE switches, and in larger systems based on ATCA or other platforms. The following excerpt shows the key features of these devices. All the devices provide four or eight classes of service and security features such as source filtering and denial-of-service (DoS) prevention. The latest devices integrate deep packet inspection (DPI) up to 128 bytes. |
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 Vendors covered in this report include: Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq: AMCC); Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq: BRCM); Dune Networks Inc.; Enigma Semiconductor Inc.; Fujitsu Ltd. (OTC: FJTSY); Fulcrum Microsystems Inc.; Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (NYSE: IDTI); Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRVL); Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: MLNX); and PLX Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: PLXT). |
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