2012 promises to be a huge year for 10 and 40GbE data center switching equipment. Once again, Ixia has teamed with the Lippis Report for the 4th round of open industry data center switch performance benchmark testing. The spring 2012 event will evaluate the forwarding performance and power consumption of 10/40Gbps switching fabrics in the context of high-scale data center clouds. Read more »
The Lippis Report recently published the first test results of a series of open industry benchmarking tests on several 10GbE switches targeted for use in public/private data center clouds. Included in the newly published online report are comparative vendor measurements from the first round of testing. The following data center switch vendors participated in the first round of testing at Ixia’s iSimCity:
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