BLADE's 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch Outperforms Competitors

BLADE Network Technologies recently announced that its 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch products can provide high cooling, low latency and price/performance advantages for International Business Machines (IBM) System Cluster 1350 data center building blocks like the IBM (News - Alert) iDataPlex.

 

BLADE Network Technologies is a supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet network infrastructure solutions. Providing blade server networking, BLADE Network Technologies has a customer base of over 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies in almost 26 industry segments, and an installed base of over 1,000,000 servers and 4.6 million switch ports.

 

Although BLADE’s RackSwitch has already been integrated into the cluster computing solutions of IBM, embedded blade server switches from BLADE have also been provided by IBM under the Nortel (News - Alert) name to the IBM BladeCenter. As per the evaluation carried out by the Tolly Group, the BLADE RackSwitch G8100 can beat the Cisco 4900M as it displays twice the throughput that Cisco (News - Alert) 4900M can offer.

 

Additionally, the RackSwitch G8100 is said to lower latency by 12.4 times, provide increased energy efficiency by 2.7 times and demonstrate almost 6.5 times better price performances.

 

"BLADE's RackSwitch is the ideal switch for IBM System x environments because its design is a direct result of BLADE's heritage as the leading manufacturer of blade server switches and unique approach to Rackonomics for cost-effective provisioning of data center networks one rack at a time," said Dan Tuchler, vice president of Strategy and Product Management, BLADE Network Technologies.

 

"In addition to its extremely low latency and line-rate throughput, BLADE's RackSwitch also employs airflow and other design efficiencies with the HPC-class data center environment in mind," Tuchler added.

 

The joint result of BLADE's 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch and IBM's System Cluster 1350, iDataPlex as well as other blade server systems is said to be advantageous for high performance computing (HPC) environments.

 

Specifically for HPC environments that need 10 Gigabit Ethernet line rate bandwidths that have low latency and high energy efficiency along with good price/performance. Keeping such features in mind, BLADE RackSwitch products are said to be the only switches that have been designed such that they can match IBM's iDataPlex airflow.