Cavium announced it has completed its acquisition of QLogic Corp., a leading supplier of high performance networking infrastructure solutions. After the successful completion of an exchange offer for all outstanding shares of QLogic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium has been merged with QLogic, with QLogic as the surviving corporation and becoming a wholly owned […]
The broad ecosystem for data center storage is about to experience a major refresh with NVMe-related technology. From August 9-11, at the NVME Solutions Lab inside Flash Memory Summit, over 4,000 attendees will experience a broad range of new server, storage and networking products with NVMe inside. As of today, 24 companies will be exhibiting […]
By Asim Rasheed, Ixia Product Management The hot word du jour in networking these days is 25 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). Starting with data centers, this technology is fast supplanting 10GbE as the de-facto data center Ethernet technology. HOW DOES IT WORK? 25GbE uses single-lane 25Gbps link protocol that leverages existing 100GbE technology. What this means is […]
In its most recent Server-Class Adapter & LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) Long-Range Forecast Report, Crehan Research Inc. projects that much steeper server-class Ethernet networking price declines will result in a significant increase in bandwidth deployed, enabling the next phase of cloud services. The firm forecasts that the dollar-per-gigabit cost of server-class Ethernet networking bandwidth will fall to […]
IP-Maker, the French startup specialized in high performance storage technologies, released its new NVMe Express (NVMe) reference design, using a PCIe Gen3 interface. It is based on the low latency hardware NVMe engine designed by IP-Maker. “The IP-Maker team is excited to announce the availability of this new reference design” said Mickael Guyard, Marketing Director […]
Ina press release, the Ethernet Alliance applauded the IEEE Standards Association’s (IEEE-SA) publication of IEEE 802.3bp™, IEEE 802.3bq™, IEEE 802.3br™, and IEEE 802.3by™, noting their importance to Ethernet’s continued evolution and significance as an indicator of what lies ahead. “Ethernet is erupting in every direction. Whether you’re talking new markets like automotive or historic proving grounds […]
Brocade’s software networking strategy is to invest in an open, vendor-agnostic platform for SDN and NFV technologies. Our Virtual Application Delivery Controller, Virtual Router, and SDN Controller deliver an agile, innovative, programmable network. Customers have experienced an industry-leading performance of 80GB line-rate bandwidth and more than 100 million production hours with NFV.
LDA Technologies, an FPGA product design and manufacturing firm, today announced the release of LDA e4, the world’s first 25GbE capable networking enclosure for PCI Express compliant FPGA boards, piloting a new generation of data center devices specifically engineered for high-speed communication and financial FPGA applications. In addition to being board-agnostic and effortless to the […]
