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Blade Network Technologies, the data-center server-switch company spun off from Nortel two years ago, this week unveiled a line of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches for rack-level network virtualization.
The 1U RackSwitch line is designed to perform server virtualization within the network. It also is intended to save energy through "rack-friendly" cooling, simplify management and provide fabric convergence through support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
The vendor makes blade switches for blade-server systems from IBM, HP and NEC. Blade claims leadership in this particular market, having installed more than four million ports connecting more than 800,000 HP, IBM and NEC server blades, with products deployed across 26 market segments.
RackSwitch switches are a key component of the Blade's strategy to reduce the total cost of ownership of data-center infrastructures by enabling scale-out from the server rack -- a strategy the vendor calls "Rackonomics." Rackonomics is positioned as a method of virtualization and scaling that's an alternative to those offered by such large data-center switch vendors as Cisco, which are anchored by large core switches -- for example, Cisco's new Nexus 7000.
Blade claims large core switches are more expensive to deploy and operate, and use power inefficiently.
"The Cisco approach is not too appealing to the server people, that's for sure," says Dan Tuchler, vice president of strategy and product management at Blade. "To rip and replace with a Nexus 7000 is a pretty costly thing. We should leave [virtualization] control to the server guy and leave the network to the networking guy. That's an easier approach to swallow."
The switches are the RackSwitch G8100 and G8000. The G8100 is a 1U top-of-rack switch equipped with 24 10G-Ethernet ports, and is designed for emerging high-volume 10G-Ethernet applications, clusters that require latency of 300 nanosec or less, or 10G-Ethernet aggregation.
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Welcome to the PartyBy Omar Sultan on April 24, 2008, 1:58 pmIts always nice to see new entrants into a segment. There are, however, a couple of incorrect assertions that should be addressed. Cisco does not advocate the...
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competitorsBy Anonymous on April 23, 2008, 3:52 pmSomeone should inform Mr.Tuchler that before making comments about the competition, do a quick search and find out what they are selling, I just did a quick search...
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competitorsBy Anonymous on April 23, 2008, 3:52 pmSomeone should inform Mr.Tuchler that before making comments about the competition, do a quick search and find out what they are selling, I just did a quick search...
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Nexus 5000By Anonymous on April 23, 2008, 3:24 pmDid Dan Tuchler forget about Cisco's new 10G TOR switch, the Nexus 5k?
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