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Networking start-up Woven Systems has reminded us that great ideas can come in small, cost-conscious packages. The 26-person firm has developed a 10-Gbit/s Ethernet switch that outperforms Fibre Channel, while undercutting the price of rival Ethernet hardware. Woven expects its switch, due out in the third quarter, will find a …

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  1. Gary McCabe

    Options?

    "Customers not so fond of start-ups have a few options to route around Woven. You can wait for 10Gig E costs to come down. Or you can hope that Fibre Channel over IP/Ethernet standards evolve quicker than planned."

    Indeed. Or, we can wait for Cisco to buy them. In about, what- June?!!?

    Gary

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Really?

    Harry Quackenboss?

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  3. Mark Harrison

    Fulcrum-based?

    Given its a 144 port switch, it probably uses a 24-port switch ASIC. Fulcrum has a 24-port 10GE switch ASIC. Broadcom has a 20-port ASIC.

    The Fulcrum ASIC is also used in Force 10's 24-port 10GE switch.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    OK. That covers the switch end of things . . .

    but what happens at the server end of the ethernet cable?

    I thought real 90 meter ethernet doing 10G was out of spec for PCI, and therefore there are no NICs that can do it. It's a power thing, aparently. PCI has power limitations that 10G NIC manufactures can't meet? Has this changed?

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