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		<title>Alta Architecture:  Microcode Capability Puts the “Flex” in FlexPipe™ Packet Pipeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Lee
In my last post, I introduced the new FlexPipe™ packet-processing pipeline, a high performance packet engine for Fulcrum’s Alta High-Speed Ethernet switch architecture that can provide sustained performance of a billion packets per second while maintaining less than 300ns latency.  In this post, I want to cover the microcode support built into FlexPipe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alta: An Introduction to FlexPipe™ High Performance Packet Pipeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Lee
A billion packets per second.  That’s the performance of FlexPipe™, the new packet-processing engine that’s part of the Alta high-speed Ethernet switching architecture announced by Fulcrum CTO Uri Cummings at Hot Interconnects last week.
What network switch needs a billion packets per second performance?  Let’s stop first to recognize just what we’re talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=578</link>
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		<title>Alta: The HSE Architecture for Where The Data Center is Going Next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Lee
At Hot Interconnects today, our CTO Uri Cummings outlined the next-generation Alta 40Gb switch chip architecture. Today’s architecture-level discussion gives us the opportunity to focus on key design issues that really make a difference in the performance of networks, but often get lost in the focus on speeds and feeds that occurs when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=573</link>
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		<title>Fulcrum News: Uri Cummings to Debut New Chip Architecture in Hot Interconnects Keynote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fulcrum Microsystems
The Hot Interconnects show is coming up next week, and Fulcrum co-founder and CTO Uri Cummings will use the opportunity to debut the next-generation FocalPoint chip architecture.  More to come about this in this blog, but if you are going to Hot Interconnects, plan to go to Uri’s presentation (Aug. 18 @ 3:15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=570</link>
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		<title>The New Low Latency Era for Cloud Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Lee
The market for cloud computing has taken an interesting turn with Amazon’s announcement last month of its Cluster Compute Instances service.  The announcement makes Amazon one of the most high-profile firms to deliver cloud-based HPC service and marks the growth phase of the market for cloud services that depend on high-performance, low-latency networking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=566</link>
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		<title>10G Ethernet to Your Set-Top Box Now a Reality</title>
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By: Gary Lee
Normally, we limit the focus of this blog to lossless fabrics for telecom and data centers.  But those worlds are ultimately impacted by bandwidth consumed by users like you and me.  So I thought this recent article in Wired was worthy of comment. It discusses how the bandwidth offered by Verizon’s FiOS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=560</link>
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		<title>Let the TRILL Ride Begin: First Example of Data Center Protocol Hits Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Lee
Here in Southern California, we’re used to thrill rides – from Magic Mountain to Disneyland (and sometimes the freeways in between) – there’s something for everyone.  Now, data center managers in need of more bandwidth are about to get their own “TRILL” ride.
TRILL stands for Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links, which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=557</link>
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		<title>Will OpenFlow Supplant the Need for DCBx?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Lee
There has been a lot of buzz lately around the potential of the OpenFlow Switching Protocol to be the control plane solution for the data center interconnect.  For those not familiar with OpenFlow, here’s how I described it in a previous post:
OpenFlow is described on its Web site as an open standard that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=553</link>
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		<title>Setting the Stage for HSE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Gary Lee
There’s a lot of buzz about 100G Ethernet, with customers saying they need it to solve pressing bandwidth shortages in the carrier network and in the data center.  Some vendors are also caught up in the frenzy and are claiming they can deliver it now.
But a recent press release from the IEEE should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=548</link>
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		<title>Packets Taking Over the Network</title>
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By: Gary Lee
In another sign that Ethernet is taking over in many parts of the telecom network, here’s an article from Light Reading.com about how T1s needed for backhaul networks may die as soon as next year, being replaced by Ethernet:
“Wireless network operators are requesting fewer T1s and more Carrier Ethernet connections for mobile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrummicro.com/blog/?p=544</link>
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