TUCSON, Ariz., May 14 -- At the BladeSystems Insight Conference here today, Teak Technologies announced the availability of a new category of top-of-rack (ToR) AZ-10 GbE switching solution, the R3000, purpose-built for orchestrating the performance of distributed and virtualized server and storage datacenter applications.

When deployed in an Acceleration Zone, the 20-port R3000 delivers performance of up to 80 ordinary 10 GbE links per Rack Unit on an equivalent basis. Each R3000 AZ-10 GbE port can be up to 4-times more efficient in application throughput and latency performance than an ordinary 10 GbE port on best-of-breed switches.

"Networks are no longer just about lines and feeds," said Carson Chen, CEO and chairman of Teak Technologies. "We are excited to launch the R3000 at a blade sever conference specifically to highlight the growing importance of network-orchestrated application performance improvements."

"Innovative networking solutions that improve price-performance will allow organizations to leverage virtualization and multi-core processors to their economic advantage and drive increasing 10 GbE adoption rate," said Neil Rickard, research vice president of Network and Communications at Gartner. "We are starting to see innovative solutions emerge in this market and are increasingly focusing our attention on this very important trend."

The R3000: AZ-10 GbE Top-of-Rack Standalone Switch

Designed as a server- and storage-access switch, the R3000 expands the Acceleration Zone footprint to a rack-level and may be used in "top-of-rack," "adjacent-rack," and some "end-of-row" configurations.

The R3000 offers the following capabilities:

• Acceleration zone-10 GbE switching mode: The R3000 is a member of Teak's growing portfolio of innovative AZ-10 GbE switching solutions, which implement a comprehensive suite of cutting-edge algorithms designed for accelerating applications performance over short- and mid-haul datacenter networks. Some of the R3000 technologies include Priority Pause-based flow control, end-to-end congestion notification(s), protracted drop, and inter-hop mechanisms for dynamic credit-based bandwidth management and reservation.

• High-performance ordinary 10 GbE switching mode: In this mode, the R3000 delivers best-in-class non-blocking line-rate, low latency switching performance.

• Simplification via unified I/O: In the AZ-10 GbE switching mode, the R3000 delivers optimal performance for throughput, latency and reliability, which simplifies application I/O connectivity at a rack-level, cabling, management, and overall network complexity.

• Virtualization and application mobility services: The R3000 is ideally suited in distributed environments that demand mobility of virtualized applications and software systems images across pooled server and storage resources on demand.

• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE): The R3000 works with all standards-based FCoE server and storage end-points and gateways. When paired with suitable FCoE-capable end-points, the R3000 improves load-invariant FCoE performance in stringent datacenter environments.

• Access-Layer Virtualizer (ALV): ALV enables the R3000 to serve as a host-proxy for all server and storage attach points across its ports. The ALV shrinks the Spanning Tree domain by one level thereby allowing distribution/core switches full access to R3000 bandwidth.

Applications Acceleration Zone

An Applications Acceleration Zone is to a datacenter as a "clean room" is to a semiconductor facility, or an "operating room" to a hospital. Operationally structured as a network overlay, an Acceleration Zone offers an isolated environment with tightly controlled levels of prevailing artifacts that reduce application performance. An Acceleration Zone enables distributed and virtualized server and storage applications to maintain their vital performance signs across a unified datacenter-wide network.

In a historical first, Teak's AZ-10 GbE technology allows Ethernet to operate optimally and reliably with full link utilization, no packet loss, and low latency while ensuring high levels of application availability and predictability. LANs based on AZ-10 GbE allow performance-impacting traffic to cut through all networking artifacts including congestion. Innovative IT managers substitute AZ-10 GbE for ordinary 10 GbE in mission critical applications with stringent requirements for performance, reliability, and predictability. AZ-10 GbE LANs have 4x fewer links -- optimally utilized to their capacity, consume up to 4x less power, are simpler to manage, and reduce time-to-profitability.

Scalability

AZ-10 GbE switching solutions can be deployed everywhere in the datacenter -- from within a blade server chassis, to aggregating server and storage traffic at a rack-level, and then to scaling linearly across the entire access layer. Innovative Acceleration Zone portals, implemented via Teak's gateway appliances, also enable applications with ordinary 1 GbE and 10 GbE connectivity to participate in the Acceleration Zone without requiring any fork-lift upgrades.

Self-Adjusting Performance

An Applications Acceleration Zone self-adjusts to maintain peak performance at all times while adapting to changes in application traffic mix/volume, network round-trip time (RTT), network topology, and equipment add/moves.

"Datacenter networks are set for transformation at a fundamental level," said Sanjay Dua, chief marketing officer at Teak Technologies. "A new era dawns where networks will increasingly orchestrate the performance of distributed and virtualized server and storage applications thereby optimizing the very design rules by which they are built. We are delivering such solutions at commercial-grade quality levels today. As solution providers, we are enabling our customers in making an evolutionary shift towards such applications-centric network architectures."

About Teak Technologies

Teak Technologies' pioneering AZ-10 GbE switching solutions transform datacenter networks into an Applications Acceleration Zone. These solutions deliver theoretically optimal performance levels and 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 AZ-10 GbE and AZ-1 GbE switching solutions is at various stages of deployment with Tier-1 OEMs, financial institutions, research universities, telecommunication carriers, and IPTV/cable service providers worldwide. More information about Teak Technologies is available at www.teaktechnologies.com/.

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Source: Teak Technologies