QsTenG 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Industry's lowest latency - 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch with flexible interfaces, copper CX4 and fiber XFP LR/SR.

Industry's lowest latency - 10Gb Ethernet Switch with flexible interfaces, CX4 and XFP LR/SRThe Quadrics TG201, 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch leads the market in ultra low-latency intelligent switching, delivering cut-through latency as low as 200ns. With its robust layer-2 switching capabilities and the ubiquity of Ethernet, the Quadrics 10 Gigabit Ethernet TG201 switch is uniquely placed to service the ever-demanding needs of the Data Centres, High utilization virtualized servers, Campus network core switching and storage consolidation.

QsTenG TG201 Features

• 480Gbps of throughput
• Fully non-blocking layer-2 switching
• Industry's lowest latency - 200ns
• Option to use fibre with XFP pluggable modules enabling LR/SR media
• Option to lower TCO by using CX4 ports for in-rack connectivity

Ethernet or Ether-not

Below is an extract from an interesting article on the Register by Timothy Prickett Morgan regarding Liquid Computing and their decision to embrace 10 Gigabit Ethernet:

"It is a testament to the architecture that you can switch out the communications system and not touch the architecture," says Miller. And like many others, Miller sees 10 Gigabit Ethernet moving ahead "at a breakneck pace" and InfiniBand being relegated to a protocol for HPC clusters, "even though some people are trying to make a go of it as a unified fabric." If InfiniBand can't get established in the data center, IQInterconnect, no matter how slick, had even less of a chance.

SO, in the meantime, if you need to buy a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch (24, 32, 48, 96 ports?) go and check Quadrics website, last November Quadrics announced $300 per-port price tag for its 24-Port CX4 10Gbps Ethernet Switch.