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Force10 Networks is extending its S-Series family with a new S55 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switch fore data centers.
The 1 RU unit delivers non-blocking, line-rate switching performance as well as support for the Force10 Open Automation Framework to make virtualized data center environments more responsive and manageable. It provides 48 GbE access ports and up to four optional 10 GbE uplinks.
http://www.force10networks.com
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about Ethernet. Here is what it replaced:
Token Bus (802.4) served 1982–1990. What ultimately replaced it?
Token Bus (802.4) formed a logical token-passing ring over a physical coax bus, so factory-floor stations got deterministic, collision-free access (favored by GM's MAP initiative). Its job passed to Ethernet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
