Move signifies that Mellanox is now positioning itself as a low-cost alternative to competitors such as Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and Arista Networks.
Intel has acquired QLogic's InfiniBand intellectual property (IP) for $125 million in a strategic move toward exascale supercomputing.
Latest installment in the Ethernet Alliance’s TEF series is 1-day event especially intended to provide the Ethernet end-user community with an opportunity to voice its needs.
Infonetics Research says that Carrier Ethernet equipment sales trends have exceeded the company’s expectations.
4x28Gbps silicon photonics transceiver chip will be demonstrated to networking and computing OEMs at this month's SC11 in Seattle.
New 100G project provides a common electrical interface that allows the inclusion of other modulator technology that may offer substantial cost and size reduction for a transmitter assembly.
It would appear that the advent of 100-Gbps has not yet killed demand for 40-Gbps technology.
The Ethernet Alliance (EA) announced that Scott G. Kipp of Brocade Communications Systems is its new president.
Multichannel test option enables service providers to accelerate development and deployment of high-speed OTN-based transport and switching equipment for more cost-effective transmission of video and other high-bandwidth traffic.
A study group will look at ways to improve efficiency in multimode and singlemode 100G interfaces.
Emulex's VMworld demonstrations include advancedments in iSCSI over Data Center Bridging, Universal Multi-Channel, 16Gb Fibre Channel connectivities.
DPoE specifications define the methods for EPON equipment to be provisioned using DOCSIS systems and service concepts in support of Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined standards.
As the industry transitions to 100G and beyond, new agreements are needed to support the higher data rates through smaller form factors and reduced power consumption, say OIF members.
Article explores techniques for handling potential EMI vulnerability resulting from an increased number of signaling levels.
Force10's S4810 top-of-rack switch and the Solarflare SFN5122F and SFN5162F dual port 10GbE SFP+ server adapters are now being offered by distributors Avnet and Synnex.
40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet technologies may loom perpetually on the horizon, but most enterprise networks are still transitioning from Gigabit Ethernet speeds.
Executives from Tier-1 global IP network provider will host industry discussions on key issues at national and international engagements in Q3 2011.
Latest developments in FireWire technology include longer distances, faster speeds, and smaller connector options.
While GbE was sliding 6.5 percent, 10-GbE jumped 21 percent.
The companies contend that PCI Express as an interconnect for data centers using parallel optics will enable a variety of applications including storage, servers and GPU clustering.
Nathan Tracy, TE's global industry manager, data communications, will speak at the Ethernet Alliance's upcoming Technology Exploration Forum (TEF), focused on next-generation 100 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect specifications.
Brocade is working with the United States Army as part of the Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program (I3MP) at Fort Carson, CO.
Upcoming event will examine drivers for next generation interconnect specifications.
The next collaborative, vendor-neutral 40G and 100G interoperability test event is set for April at UNH-IOL in Durham, NH.
Backplane demo at DesignCon featured FCI''s AirMax VSe system, in conjunction with technology from National Semiconductor and Agilent.
Market is finally taking off with shipments of SFP+ optical transceivers driving early growth -- but 10GBase-T is nearly ready to challenge for ports.
Component compliance is to ISO cable and connector specs, which the company says are more stringent than TIA-568-C.2's.
The HyperShare platform provides a framework for system and chip designers to combine and leverage interconnect and switch fabric technologies, including HyperTransport, InfiniBand, Ethernet and PCI Express, in ways that make all network resources hardware-virtualized and sharable among nodes.
The High End Computer Networking (HECN) team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is leveraging Extreme Networks' 40 GbE modules in an ongoing and collaborative study of global climate.
The Avago CXP optical transceivers are compliant to both IBTA Infiniband MSA specifications for CXP QDRx12 and IEEE 100GBASE-S10 specifications.
Interoperability white papers detail test results of the group's Higher Speed Ethernet (HSE) and Ethernet in the Data Center plugfests.
The company will demonstrate what it bills as the industry's first InfiniBand FDR active optical cable at this week's SuperComputing 2010.
Latest release supports enhanced data integrity and SRIOV in KVM environments.
Panduit participated in the recent IEEE 802.3ba 40/100Gbps interoperability event that occurred at Ixia Corporation’s iSimCity lab in Santa Clara, CA.
Ethernet Alliance has elected Bruce Tolley, Solarflare's vice president of solutions marketing, as a director for 2010-2011.
Ethernet Alliance members gathered at Ixia’s iSimCity in Santa Clara, California to verify interoperability of test equipment, switches, routers, NICs, transceivers and cabling.
Vitesse notes that its VSC7111 is among the first IC semiconductor chips to support the PCIe Gen 3 8G protocol for the server market.
The deal offers shelter for Teranetics, one of a handful of start-ups in a slow, crowded 10Gbit/s over copper chip market.
Teranetics specializes in single- and dual-port 10GBase-T PHY silicon. Chips enable 10 Gigabit rates over the installed base of CAT6 and CAT6a structured cabling in data centers.
Dave Parry joins Solarflare with extensive experience leading teams that design and bring to market high-performance server and networking products.
The consortium is currently accepting founding member companies who will have an early opportunity to provide input into the testing process and have market-ready products as the high speed Ethernet standards evolve.
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has finalized two implementation agreements (IAs) addressing the key electro-mechanical aspects of a 100G long-haul transmission module.
In addition, Avago Technologies was added as a consortium member.
Ixia has assisted Deutsche Telekom in pre-deployment testing of 100 Gbps network links.
The new blades for the the NetIron MLX and DCX Backbone series are faster and offer more density for heavily trafficked service provider networks and booming server virtualization adoption in data centers.
Better yet, this boom doesn’t look like it will go bust anytime soon, according to market research firm LightCounting.
Zarlink has shed its Optical Products group to Tyco Electronics for approximately $15 million in cash.
A new report finds that quarter-over-quarter, from 4Q09 to 1Q10, the worldwide optical network hardware market decreased 14%.
Infonetics Research contends that service providers and enterprises have a strong preference for 100G technology if it is priced right, with less urgency surrounding 40G coherent technology and widespread acceptance of both 10G SFP+ and tunable XFP protocols.
The SAN equipment market is poised for strong growth, fueled by Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), according to Infonetics Research.
The end-to-end converged data center demonstration showcases a live setup of server virtualization and I/O consolidation over a converged fabric.
The company's 10GBASE-T uplink module (SMC10BTMOD) will enable dual 10G uplink capabilities and non-blocking stacking on the company's TigerStack 1000 26- and 50-port SMC89-series managed switches.
Mellanox adapters supporting the IBTA RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) specification will support Infiniband-quality latency over Ethernet, enabling more robust data center applications.
The company is betting that better economics will drive greater adoption of 40 Gigabit Ethernet vs.100 GbE to meet growing bandwidth needs in data center networks.
By MATT VINCENT, Senior Editor -- Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ:MLNX) has rolled out its 2nd generation of InfiniBand switches--as well as a proprietary cabling package--to support more users in the data center, networking and management, and server and storage channels.
The IEEE has approved work on IEEE P802.3bg, which will specify standards for a serial version of 40-Gigabit Ethernet (40G).
Greater bandwidth requirements, an increase in consumer demand for bundled services, and ambitious plans to upgrade traditional copper networks will trigger global FTTH/B subscriptions to reach 183.9 million by 2015, according to Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA).
OFS has published research on various designs for next-generation transmission fiber for coherent optical communications.
By Contributing Editor Stephen Hardy, Lightwave -- A few snippets from the presentations at the OSA/Lightwave Executive Forum...
By Contributing Editor Stephen Hardy, Lightwave -- Ciena put in the original stalking horse bid for the assets from the bankrupt Nortel, overcame Nokia Siemens Networks when the assets were auctioned, then bested its rival again in court.
Starting next month, QLogic's 5800V Series 8Gb Fibre Channel stackable switches will be available through EMC for a range of that company's SAN platforms.
By Contributing Editor Stephen Hardy, Lightwave -- AT&T saw this week's Verizon 100-Gbps trial and raised it 27 Gbps in live traffic. The carrier conducted the trial using Cisco's new CRS-3 Carrier Routing System.
The Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS), as its name implies, has three times the horsepower as the previous CRS-1 platform.
Emulex announced that its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture will provide 10Gb/s Ethernet integration into five enterprise-class and high-volume IBM server platforms.
Research and Markets (Dublin, Ireland) has added WinterGreen Research's report, "Worldwide Telecommunications and Communications Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2006 to 2012", to its offering.
The company has introduced its PureSpec-Ethernet verification intellectual property (VIP) product to support the preliminary 40/ 100 -Gigabit specification from the IEEE Ethernet Task Force.
With new capabilities, the FSP 3000 now enables operators to provide ultra-high bandwidth between data centers and remote backup locations.
The company has entered full volume production on the AQ 1002, its flagship low-power 10GBASE-T PHY solution.
AT&T leads the pack of those providing an increasingly strategic service.
Fulcrum Microsystems’ FocalPoint FM4224, a 24-port 10-GbE semiconductor device, is being used by Fortinet as the switching fabric for that company’s recently launched FortiSwitch-1000, a chassis-based 10-GbE data center switch.
EZchip Semiconductor Ltd., in Yokneam, Israel is sampling its NP-4 100-Gigabit network processor (NPU) for Carrier Ethernet equipment.
About two-thirds of these revenues will come from 40 GbE products, the analyst firm CIR believes.
Despite unsteady global financial markets, the worldwide telecommunications industry will continue to expand over the next five years as growth of wireless services in emerging markets offsets the spending slowdown in the advanced economies, says a market analysis report Insight Research.
It won’t take much of a cost per bit improvement for carriers to consider 40- and 100-Gbps technology, according to a survey conducted by Infonetics Research.
Alcatel-Lucent has reportedly enhanced its optical networking portfolio with coherent receiver technology that enables operators to deal with transmission impairments which become extremely severe at speeds of 100 Gbps and higher.
The similarities between the technologies at the heart of Intel’s Light Peak initiative and active optical cables should benefit the latter in the long run, Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) predicts in its new Active Optical Cables Market Report 2010.
Conducted over a period of four days using Nortel's commercially available 100G technology, the metro fiber network and bandwidth service provider sent production network traffic error-free over a 100G link spanning 600 km from New York to Boston.
NEC Electronics recently announced its development of a family of Industrial Ethernet physical layers (PHYs) for 10Base-T and 100Base-TX/FX, optimized for existing industrial Ethernet protocols used in industrial automation products.
Nortel says it has unveiled the industry's first commercially available 100G solution and announced that Verizon has deployed the system in its live customer network in Europe.
The two companies announced their participation in the successful operation of IEEE-compliant 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) optics.
The 10GBase-T PHY vendor got funding from New Enterprise Associates as well as existing investors Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Pinnacle Ventures, and Venture Tech Alliance.
Emulex Corporation and Blade Network Technologies, Inc. announced that the two companies are delivering the essential networking components for the IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric platform.
Test laboratory GHMT AG conducted analysis of two U/UTP, one F/UTP, and two S/FTP systems. Tyco says the results show shielded systems offer superior noise performance.
The Ethernet Alliance announced the results of the SFP+ subcommittee plug fest of 10G SFP+ direct attach copper products based on the SFF-8431 industry specification.
Special Reporting for CI&M by Stephen Hardy, Editorial Director, Lightwave -- Silicon photonics company Luxtera has expanded its portfolio with the new OptoPHY product line. The PCB-mountable optical transceivers are designed to compete with SNAP-12 and electrical interconnect for backplane and related 10G datacom applications.
Leviton has joined the Cisco Technology Developer Program as part of the program's Data Center Storage Networking solution category. Additionally, Leviton Fiber Connect's high density data center port replicated patch panel series, F8xLx-576, has successfully completed interoperability testing with Cisco 3.0.
Ixia’s new offerings are intended to enable equipment manufacturers, data center operators, and storage vendors to assess the functionality and performance of their Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), Data Center Ethernet (DCE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and SAN devices.
