Fujitsu unveils 10Gb Ethernet switch

Fujitsu has unveiled a new 10Gb Ethernet switch that the company says uses 30 percent less power than other switches in the product line. The XG2600 is part of the Fujitsu XG family of switches, and packs 26-ports that can be used to support Internet SCSI for storage applications, as well as for high-performance computing. The XG2600 comes in a 1U chassis, and will be sold for $18,000 after a demonstration at the Supercomputing Conference next week

While datacenters are hardly ripping out their 1Gb Ethernet installations, the use of 10Gb equipment is making inexorable inroads as they are increasingly chosen in the course of upgrading, or architected as part of network backbones. What Fujitsu has done is package a high performance switch into a small form factor, which uses less power.

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