Leading connector manufacturer Teradyne has dismissed claims that the backplane market will move to switch fabric within the next few years. Tom Pitten, development engineering manager at Teradyne ...

Next-generation switches and routers are designing in nonproprietary chip sets that support 2.5- and 10-Gbit/s line speeds. This is the last Special Report that Ray Weiss, who passed away on New ...

As the speed and port density of switches and routers increase, the design strain on interconnect within these systems become more difficult. This article discusses the various options today's ...

Backplane Transceiver Markets in Dollars at $8.8 Million in 2003 Are Expected to Reach $22 Million by 2009 Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com ...

Typically, the system designer breaks an application down into functional elements, and identifies functional blocks such as SBC, Switch and I/O boards. These boards or modules will then be uniquely ...

The appropriate topology, chassis design, and cooling management yield scalable high-performance systems. If you're like a lot of design engineers, you want to design a high-performance communications ...

-or-<BR><BR>What to consider when buying new switches.<BR><BR>As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm in charge of tracking down a new switch to use for our production back-end network. We've gotten ...

A Wall Street analyst firm report says that Cisco is readying a Catalyst 6500 switch upgrade that will double bandwidth on the device, offering customers greater support for 10G Ethernet LANs. The ...