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Teak Technologies Announces Availability of Its 10-Gb Congestion-Free Ethernet Switching Solution for IBM BladeCenter at Next Generation Data Center Conference and Expo

Posted on: Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 09:03 CDT

Blade.org founding member Teak Technologies announced immediate availability of its pioneering 10-Gb Congestion-Free Ethernet (CFE) switching solution for the IBM BladeCenter platform at the NGDC Conference and Expo here today.

The I3000 is optimized for high-performance connectivity in the access layer and combines ultra-low latency with rule-changing economics.

Teak's I3000 switching solution consists of two elements, namely, the L2 10-Gb CFE Switch Module (XcfESM), and the mezzanine, 10-Gb CFE Expansion Card (XcfEC). The XcfESM integrates Fujitsu's switching chipset and provides twenty 10-Gb CFE ports -- fourteen ports internal to the chassis and six external ports that connect to the network. Four external ports are accessible from the switch module itself and two from separate bridge modules.

Teak's 10-Gb CFE Expansion Card (XcfEC) for the IBM BladeCenter platform integrates Neterion's advanced ASIC featured in the company's family of 10-GbE Xframe V-NIC adapters featuring the Hyperframe suite of technologies designed to provide virtualization at the I/O level. The ASIC is based on a sophisticated state machine architecture that delivers the highest performance and reliability available, and as a result, enables complete end-to-end virtualized networks. Teak's 10-Gb CFE Expansion Card provides four 10-Gb CFE ports that can connect to any of four XcfESMs inside an IBM BladeCenter chassis.

Virtual Links

Teak's Congestion-Free Ethernet switching solution simplifies a data center network by consolidating physical links by up to a factor of four. Physical links can be consolidated because Teak's solutions eliminate packet loss, even in bursty environments, thereby making each link more efficient and allowing it to carry more traffic while delivering highly predictable and reliable application service-levels. Consequently, the I3000 can have four times as many 10-Gb/s virtual links for each external 10-Gb CFE port.

Dual Mode Operation

The I3000 operates in two modes and switches between them transparently. It automatically switches to the XcfE mode (Mode-XcfE) when an XcfESM detects a suitable 10-Gb CFE Expansion Card on a server blade, and at all other times delivers best-in-class performance in the standards-compliant 10-GbE mode (Mode-XE). The solution also supports a hybrid configuration consisting of a mix of 10-Gb CFE and 10-GbE expansion cards.

Interoperability

In another first for IBM BladeCenter, Teak Technologies also announced that its I3000 solution interoperates with all 10-GbE expansion cards currently available from NetXen, Chelsio, and Myricom thereby further expanding customer choice in both performance and range of supported features such as TOE, iWarp, and iSCSI. Interoperability across other 10-GbE expansion cards will be announced shortly. Additionally, the I3000 also interoperates with a range of switches from Cisco, HP ProCurve, Fujitsu, 3Com, Alcatel-Lucent, Extreme, Foundry Networks, Dell, Blade Network Technologies, and Nortel.

"Our goal is to interoperate with all best-of-breed solutions," said Sanjay Dua, chief marketing officer at Teak Technologies. "The I3000 design is future-proof and is carefully built for maximum flexibility in an open, standards-driven manner. We are keen on working with partners that share our industry-leading vision for simplifying data center networks and incrementally transforming them into a Congestion-Free Zone."

Teak's 10-Gb Congestion-Free Ethernet switching solution for IBM BladeCenter targets mission-critical applications including programmatic trading of public investment securities, enterprise-class block-level storage connectivity, high-definition mixed-media content retrieval, caching, and transport in IP-TV and cable applications, and high performance compute and database clusters.

"I am very pleased to see the progress our team has made in delivering a world-class solution for the IBM BladeCenter platform," said Carson Chen, chief executive officer at Teak Technologies. "We have assembled a top-notch team and will continue to focus our innovations in building practical solutions to challenging network-related issues facing data center customers."

Comparative Advantage

Targeted at the innovative IT manager who is already considering the merit of data center simplification through adoption of 10-GbE in the IBM BladeCenter platform, the I3000 offers a compelling alternative that combines best-in-class low latency switching with up to 16x price/performance advantage over comparable 10-GbE solutions.

Pricing and Availability

Teak's I3000 solution elements sell either separately or in combination. The L2 10-Gb CFE Switch Module (XcfESM) is listed at $9,799 and the 10-Gb CFE Expansion Card (XcfEC) at $899. In both instances, the Congestion-Free Ethernet operating mode is optional (Mode-XcfE Option) and sells separately. The XcfE option for the XcfESM lists at $4,819 and at $249 for the XcfEC.

The L2 10-Gb CFE Switch Module (XcfESM) is available today from Teak Technologies. All other I3000 interoperable 10-GbE expansion cards and switches sell separately from their respective OEM vendor's channels.

About Teak Technologies

Teak Technologies' pioneering 10-Gb Congestion-Free Ethernet (CFE) switching solutions unlock the promise of loss-free Ethernet thereby transforming a data center network into a Congestion-Free Zone. The company's switching solutions simplify networks that interconnect compute and storage end-points in mid-to-large, heterogeneous IT environments consisting of the world's leading blade server platforms, rack servers, distributed storage clusters, and IT processes. Teak's expanding portfolio of 10-Gb CFE and 1-Gb CFE switching solutions is at various stages of trial with Tier-1 OEMs, financial institutions, research universities, telecommunication carriers, and IPTV/cable service providers. More information about Teak Technologies is available at http://www.teaktechnologies.com/.

About Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of blade server solutions. The organization provides leadership to the blade market and fosters a thriving industry ecosystem focused on delivering valuable solutions to blade computing customers. For more information, visit the organization online at http://www.blade.org/.

Congestion-Free Ethernet, CFE, Congestion-Free Zone, and Collaborative Ethernet are trademarks or registered trademarks of Teak Technologies, Inc. V-NIC and Hyperframe are trademarks of Neterion, Inc. Xframe is a registered trademark of Neterion, Inc. BladeCenter is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective holders.

Copyright 2007 Teak Technologies, Inc.

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