Switches & Routers
Switches and routers are both fundamental networking devices used to connect devices within a network, but they serve different purposes and operate at different layers of the OSI model.
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Switches & RoutersFulcrum Has Designs On 10G/40G Ethernet Switch SpaceFulcrum Has Designs On 10G/40G Ethernet Switch Space
Fulcrum Microsystems has used this week's Supercomputing 2010 conference in New Orleans to release its Alta 1U Reference Platform, a single-board 10G/40G Ethernet switch reference design intended to speed time to market of high-port-count data center top-of-rack (ToR) switches. Code-named Barcelona, it is built on Fulcrum's low-latency FocalPoint FM6364 10G/40G Ethernet switch chip, and can be used to evaluate the performance of that chip in either a test environment or a live data center networ
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