Switch Partners

Arastra

Arastra is a global provider of best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet products designed specifically for the data center. Founded in 2004 by well-known Silicon Valley veterans, Arastra's mission is to enable the Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet transition in the evolving data center market through hardware and software design innovations, cost-effective implementations, and a commitment to quality. The Arastra 7100 Series of Datacenter Ethernet switches features the industry's highest density 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching solution and the first with an extensible modular network operating system. With breakthrough price-performance, the Arastra 7100 Series enables 10 Gigabit Ethernet to be deployed everywhere in the data center, which can significantly improve server utilization and consequently data center power efficiency. For more information visit www.arastra.com

Performance Data

BLADE Network Technologies

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.—the industry’s first vendor to focus exclusively on serving the network infrastructure requirements of the rapidly growing blade server market. Their products represent a strategic control point in a blade server system. They are the gateway for all traffic directed to and from a blade server system. As a strategic control point, their products have a direct influence on a blade server system’s performance, high availability, scalability, manageability, security, and total cost-of-ownership. Their blade server switches serve as the network backbone of thousands of HP Blade Systems and IBM BladeCenters at some of the world’s largest enterprises. Enterprises across 25 industry segments use BLADE Network Technologies blade server switches! For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net.

Force10 Networks

Force10 Networks is the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks. Based on a revolutionary system architecture that delivers best-in-class resiliency and massive scalability, Force10's TeraScale E-Series switch/routers ensure predictable application performance, increase network availability, and reduce operating costs. Today, many of the world's largest Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks depend on Force10 Networks. For additional information, please visit http://www.force10networks.com

Performance Data

Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and Service Provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4 - 7 Web switches, wireless LAN and access points, access routers and Metro routers. Foundry's 7,100 customers include the world's premier ISPs, Metro Service Providers, and enterprises including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial, and manufacturing companies. For more information, visit www.foundrynetworks.com.

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Fujitsu

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. FCPA provides innovative solutions for the U.S. marketplace. For more information visit http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/products/new-technologies/xg700-xg1200/.

Fulcrum Microsystems

Fulcrum Microsystems delivers high-performance, standards-based interconnect devices for use in computing, storage, and networking applications that are differentiated from traditional switch chips by their lower latency, higher level of integration, and improved power efficiency. For more information visit http://www.fulcrummicro.com/index.htm.

HP ProCurve

The ProCurve Networking business unit of HP is a supplier of enterprise networking solutions comprising wired and wireless enterprise networking products, services and solutions - including WAN routers, Ethernet switches, routing switches, wireless access points and network-management applications - which allow customers to build networks based on open standards that meet current and future needs for security, performance and reliability. Recognizing the necessary migration of intelligence and functionality to the network edge, the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture gives companies a cost-effective, easy-to-manage strategy for achieving command from the center with control to the edge. ProCurve was positioned in the challenger quadrant in research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc.'s 2004 Magic Quadrant Report for Global Campus LANs. For more information visit www.hp.com/rnd/.

Quadrics

Quadrics is a leading developer of High Performance Interconnect technologies. Since its inception in 1996, Quadrics has established itself as a technology and performance leader in the Interconnect for High Performance Computing (HPC) market. Today, Quadrics’ products and solutions are part of some of the world’s largest supercomputer systems, including installations at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, CEA and Pennsylvania State University. Building on the skills developed to meet the extreme performance requirements of such systems, Quadrics has recently launched 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions, designed to meet the challenges of the next-generation high performance computing centres. Quadrics is a part of the Finmeccanica group, and is fully owned by Alenia Aeronautica. www.quadrics.com

Woven Systems™

Woven Systems™ is an innovative network infrastructure provider focused on designing and building massively scalable Ethernet fabric switching solutions for enterprise and Internet data centers. Woven offers the only solutions that dynamically use Active Congestion Management to automatically balance traffic for delivering the industry’s highest performance and lowest latency. In addition, the Company simplifies network operations with plug-and-play intelligence, ubiquitous interoperability, and automatic tuning and balancing — all conveniently packaged in an energy-efficient chassis. www.wovensystems.com