NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: OPTICAL NETWORKING 09/15/04 Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED],
In this issue: * Line cards, mgmt. modules double Gig and 10G port counts * Links related to Optical Networking * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco IP Communications represents a major opportunity for businesses large and small. By eliminating the need to maintain separate telephone and data infrastructures, extraordinary benefits are often achieved. For information on the union of telephony and data on a single physical network and the security issues involved see the Special Report IP Telephony Security: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81113 _______________________________________________________________ CHECK OUT NW FUSION'S NEW WHITE PAPER LIBRARY NW Fusion's White Paper Library was recently re-launched with new features and improved capabilities! Sort NW Fusion's library of white papers by Date and Vendor, view white papers by TECHNCIAL CATEGORY, mouse over white paper descriptions and take advantage of our IMPROVED white paper search engine. CLICK HERE: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81155 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Force10 raises the 10G bar, again By Phil Hochmuth Force10 Networks this week refreshed its 10G switch product line, doubling the switching capacity and port densities on all its chassis. The new products are aimed at businesses or research centers that run high-end data center networks with hundreds of servers attached via Gigabit or 10G Ethernet. The upgraded management modules and line cards for Force10's switches will pack up to 672 Gigabit or 56 10G Ethernet ports into a chassis that supports over a terabit and a half of total capacity, the vendor says. The upgrades include new management and port modules for Force10's E1200 switch chassis, which has 12 slots for port modules and two slots for redundant management modules. The six-slot E600 and three-port E300 chassis also are being upgraded. Compared with its first-generation E-series predecessor, each respective device now supports double the backplane speed (the total bandwidth each device can move). The San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) can use that much bandwidth. The center is part of the Teragrid project - a supercomputing project that links research data centers across the country into one grid-computing infrastructure. Clusters in the Teragrid hosted at SDSC consist of hundreds of servers connected via Gigabit Ethernet to a single E1200, with up to 26 10G Ethernet ports linking the switch to other switches or to 10G servers also in the grid. SDSC uses 10G switches from Cisco, Foundry and Force10. Boxes from Cisco and Foundry Networks had caught up to Force10's over the last year, says Nathaniel Mendoza, a network technician at SDSC. He says the new Force10 line cards again put the start-up ahead of the more established players. "We'll be adding a ton of capacity, so having a lot of ports that are line-rate is key," Mendoza says. He says the center plans to consolidate some clusters from multiple switches onto a single E1200 with over 600 nodes. "You can't do that with any other switches I've seen." For the complete story, please go to: <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/091304force10.html?nlo> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Phil Hochmuth Phil Hochmuth is a Network World Senior Editor and a former systems integrator. 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