With all sights set on expanding bandwidth and speed, 10/40 gigabit Ethernet promises to capture a lot of attention this year. 40GE switches are the new muscle cars that are beginning to power leading-edge enterprise networks. Virtualization and network convergence is driving huge volumes of traffic across data center switching fabrics. The capacity and forwarding performance of this fabric is critical to ensuring timely delivery of service and application traffic, and the associated end-user experience. Read more »

High-frequency trading corporations and other organizations that conduct time-sensitive transactions rely on ultra-low latency Top of Rack (ToR) switches in their data center cloud environments. The Dell’Oro Group says that ToR switches generated more than $500 million in revenues in 2010 with the sector growing 300% in Q2 alone. To take advantage of this growing market opportunity, leading infrastructure vendors are all “racing to zero” and trying to differentiate themselves by delivering the lowest possible latency performance. Read more »