Many of the companies that added support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet to their enterprise switches in the past year are now readying proceedss that will increase the 10G port density in their result lines.Many of the companies that added support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet to their enterprise switches in the past year are now readying proceedss that will increase the 10G port density in their result lines. The development should enable enterprises to more easily have relation campuses or buildings on a 10G LAN backbone and to aggregate Gigabit Ethernet traffic, which is increasingly the norm upon LANs. The development should also plane the progress of emerging grid computing technologies and the integration of storage area networks with LANs. "It spreads doors that heretofore we did not have exhibit and that's interoperability," said Greg Williamson, associate director of Information and Technology Services at Arkansas State University, in Jonesboro. The indoctrinate is building a 10G backbone to aggregate Gigabit Ethernet traffic in succession its LAN. Startup Force10 Networks Inc. is preparing to launch in September its first switch/router for 10G It will provide filled line-rate speeds of 10G bp and will support 28 10G ports in its chassis, said company officials in Milpitas, Calif. Alcatel SA from the first quarter of nearest year plans to offer its first single-port 10G module for its of recent origin OmniSwitch 8800 for large enterprises. Officials at the Paris-based company said 10G support is likely to expand nearest year into its OmniSwitch 7000-series switches for medium-size and smaller enterprise networks. Other vendors looking to expand their single-port 10G support include most distant Networks Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., which will protract support for 10G beyond its BlackDiamond switches to its Alpine line of core enterprise switches as customer demand increases, officials said. They declined to specify a time frame. Foundry Networks Inc., which supports 10G onward its BigIron switch family, plans within the nearest year to offer WAN interfaces upon its NetIron Internet router line aimed at service providers, said officials in San Jose Calif. Cisco arrangements Inc., also of San Jose has plans to provide more 10G ports in what is yet to be versions of its Catalyst 6500 enterprise switch and Catalyst 1200 switch for service providers. And Nortel Networks Corp. is doubling the switch capacity in its Passport 8600 Routing Switch, for which it moves a single-port 10G blade, to handle a larger number of ports by blade, said officials in Santa Clara. While vendors push for additional 10G support, enterprises are just beginning to consider ways to extend the higher bandwidth. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, Calif., for example, this week will demonstrate the use of 10G to stream a supercomputing application that simulates the collision of black excavations said Mike Bennett, senior network engineer at the lab. "I have folk disclosed there in the research community that are ready for the bandwidth," Bennett said. "If I had unlimited resources, I would already be buying it." Related stories: Copyright ?© 2002 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserv Originally appearing in The snare Economy. |
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