Next-Gen Data Center Drives 10GE Switch Market Outlook
As we look forward to the coming year, the market for 10GE switches is expected to heat up—driven primarily by increased competition in the data center. This article in Network World notes an increase in large vendors like Avaya, IBM and HP that are challenging the current Cisco-centric paradigm, and they’re doing so by developing cost-effective data center bridging (DCB) switch fabric solutions.
To compete with Cisco on cost, these vendors will not be able to justify the large internal chip development model made famous by Cisco, and the result will be a heavier reliance on merchant silicon to keep costs down. However, for these fabric-based architectures to have the necessary performance, it is vitally important that the switches have extremely low-latency and high bandwidth along with advanced DCB features.
FocalPoint provides the combination of features necessary for large DCB fabrics designed for scaled out data centers that require cost-effective Ethernet switching solutions. With Fulcrum at the center of the switching architecture, vendors now have the merchant silicon solution they need to break through Cisco’s stranglehold on the data center market and legitimately shift the course of the data center evolution.
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