Technology Backgrounder
10GbE 26-port switch
26-port 10GbE Switch Advantages in Blade Servers
Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.
October 2008
| Contents | |
| Introduction | 2 |
| Bandwidth Demand | 2 |
| Evolving Ethernet Market | 2 |
| Bladed PCs, Servers and Virtualization – Building Blocks for Next-Gen. Data Centers | 3 |
| 26-Port 10GbE Switch IC | 4 |
| Functionality Advantages | 6 |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | 6 |
| Summary | 8 |
Introduction
With multicore processors and virtualization pushing blade-server performance to unprecedented levels, I/O performance must catch up — but without increasing cost per port or power consumption. The only way to meet this goal is to use more highly integrated network switch chips that provide higher throughput per port.
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