Traditional approaches to data center networking cannot satisfy the scale, bandwidth, latency and cost points required for evolving data center software architectures. Fibre Channel and InfiniBand ...

As the amount of data that we send continues to escalate exponentially, network switch fabrics must be able to scale from today's tens of gigabit/s levels to the terabit levels needed for tomorrow's ...

Hey all,<BR><BR>I'm reading/hearing about SAN switches some lately, and I've heard/read distinctions being made between Switch and Fabric. <BR><BR>I was under the impression that basically ...

At 230 pounds, the Brocade DCX Backbone would be on the lighter end of middle linebackers in the NFL, but it’s well built to fill the middle of a storage network. Unveiled in late January, the DCX ...

The SPI-4.2 interface has emerged as a one of the most popular physical interface for networking designs. Today it can be found on various products such as network processors, traffic managers, ...

Ideal for interfacing to multivendor traffic managers, network processors (NPU) and in-house ASIC implementations, the ENET Xe nonblocking switch fabric chipset offers a fast scalability of 1 Tbit/s.

If you're like a lot of design engineers, you want to design a high-performance communications system that's scalable, supports "five-nines" high availability (HA), and is low in cost—and you need to ...

Despite vendor pledges to support existing or developing industry standards, users are expected to deploy single-vendor data center and cloud switching fabrics from their primary suppliers. Standards ...

Astera Labs ALAB introduces a new portfolio of fabric switches, the Smart Fabric Switch portfolio, comprising the industry’s first PCIe6 switch. These are designed for heavy AI workloads in ...

Big Switch Networks said its data center switch fabric, Big Cloud Fabric (BCF), now supports VMware's vSphere integrated containers. Big Switch and other companies have been working to provide ...