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Fulcrum Has Designs On 10G/40G Ethernet Switch Space: Page 2 of 2

According to a statement from Simon Stanley, an analyst and author of the Heavy Reading Components Insider Reports, the data center is one of the leading applications for 10GE, as data center consolidation and growing traffic place severe strains on the network infrastructure. They're predicting a steady increase in the port count of top-of-rack and other data center switches as blade servers add more 10GE ports. "The FocalPoint FM6000 lifts the bar in this emerging wave of high-performance, low latency, high port count merchant silicon to address this market," Stanley said.

Also announced at the Supercomputing was a Fulcrum partnership with Aquantia. Code-named Amsterdam, the Aquantia-Fulcrum reference platform is also based on the FM6364 switch and Aquantia quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY (physical layer) chips. The singleboard platform can be used to evaluate the performance and features of the bundled solution in a test environment or a live data center network.