By Nick Lippis, Industry Analyst and Consultant
Mark your calendar for February 1, 2011, at high noon ET, and point your browser here to view the test results of the industry’s first 10GbE data center network fabric evaluation in live HD video streamed over the internet. You don’t want to buy data center switching equipment until you have seen the results of the Open Network Performance and Power Consumption Evaluation of 10 GbE Data Center Fabric Switches.
Nick Lippis, industry analyst and consultant will present the results of one week of testing 10GbE Top of Rack and Core switches at the state-of-the-art Ixia iSimCity lab in Santa Clara, CA. Mr. Lippis will present details on the following products:
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 10K
Arista 7500 Series Data Center Switch
BLADE Network Technologies, an IBM Company
IBM BLADE RackSwitch G8124
BLADE Network Technologies, an IBM Company
IBM BLADE RackSwitch G8264
Force10 S-Series S4810
Hitachi Cable Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR
Juniper Network EX Series EX8200 Ethernet Switch
Voltaire® Vantagetm 6048
It is our hope that we can remove performance, power consumption and latency concerns from the purchase decision, allowing IT business leaders to focus on other purchase considerations in their data center switching procurements.
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