About Dune, about the legacy of Zuma and Charlottes Web, and whatever happened to the Aranea 2?? MRV's possible strategy for continuing to play in the SuperRouter/GodBox space.
Keep you eye on the ball M1 –
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Dune Networks Unveils the SAND™ Scheduled Switch Fabric
Dual Device Chipset Opens the Door for the First Time to 7-10 Year Datacom Product Life Cycle while Offering Full Switching and Traffic Management Capabilities
Agoura Hills, Calif.—October 8, 2002— Dune Networks, a leading developer of networking devices, unveiled today its SAND™ (Scalable Architecture for Networking Devices) scheduled switch-fabric architecture. Dune’s SAND chipset provides a complete solution for non-blocking switching fabric, ingress/egress traffic management and scheduling. SAND extends the product life cycle of Internet and storage networking platforms for up to ten years. It is the first switch fabric that allows system vendors and network service providers to build a platform that can dynamically scale and enhance port rates, port counts, and service schemes.
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Dune Enables 10-15 Years Switch Lifecycle with First SAND™ Device FE200 Fabric Element, the Engine of SAND Scheduled Switch Fabric, Switches any number of ports, of any rate with any type of service scheme
Agoura Hills, Calif.—March 24, 2003— Dune Networks, Inc., a provider of next-generation switch-fabric and traffic manager devices, announced the immediate availability of the FE200, the SAND™ (Scalable Architecture of Networking Devices) switching device. The FE200 is a self-routing switching device that integrates sixty-four (64) full-duplex 3.125 Gbps serial links. The FE200 allows Internet and storage platform vendors for the first time to build future-proof systems that truly scale. Dune Networks is currently shipping the FE200 in sample quantities to its customers.
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Marvell® Introduces Complete Multi-Service Fabric Chipset, Enabling System Vendors to Develop Service Platforms and Extend Product Life Cycles
New Prestera™-FX Fabric Chipset Provides Increased Scalability and Supports Multiple Traffic Types to Implement Comprehensive Service Schemes
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Sunnyvale, California, (June 23, 2003)— Marvell® (NASDAQ: MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications and storage solutions, today introduced a complete Prestera™-FX multi-service fabric solution targeted at enterprise core switches and metro edge routers. This two-chip architecture, the Prestera-FX930 fabric access processor and the Prestera-FX9130 fabric element, provides increased scalability for the enterprise backbone to support Gigabit desktop switches, and supports multiple service types to implement comprehensive Service Level Agreement schemes. With these enhanced capabilities, system vendors and network service providers, for the first time, are able to develop advanced service platforms with increased user connections as well as bandwidth, extending their product life cycle.
With network capacity and SLA requirements constantly evolving, the network operator typically finds that the network must be overhauled by buying entirely new equipment. The Marvell Prestera-FX multi-service fabric solution allows for the development of truly scalable systems with increased port count and rate to extend the life cycle of the product, thus decreasing network ownership costs. The Prestera-FX multi-service fabric chipset scales in the number of ports it supports, enabling switching systems to expand up to thousands of ports especially with the deployment to Gigabit to the Desktop, without affecting the initial system investment. In addition, the Prestera multi-service fabric solution also provides seamlessly connecting ports of increasing rates—from Gigabit (G) and 10G ports, to 40G and 100G Ethernet ports, without changes to the backplane, chassis design or fabric architecture.
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Take the complete sum of the Lightreef and the Aranea datasheet feature lists, extend the specs by an order of magnitude or more, add Prestera and some extra features... and you have the Sand 1.2tbs machine.
>>Gobi 640gbs--1.2Tbs Reference Design<<
M1 you should ask MRV if they intend to use the “Marvellous” Dune technology in MRV’s next gen OS routers.
The advantage is now that with this type of technology all of MRV’s switch routers would match from medium to heavy enterprise machines all the way up to hyperefficient terabit monsters and even god boxes (switchrouters that can handle any current and future types of traffic) and right down to the lowliest Optiswitch.
For once, their timing might be right…….. |
