Fulcrum Intros 10/40GE Switch

Saturday, 06 November 2010 09:23

Fulcrum Microsystems today announced the FocalPoint® FM6000 series of fully integrated wire-speed 10G and 40G Ethernet switch chips, which incorporate the company’s new and innovative Alta high-speed Ethernet switching architecture. One key new feature of the FM6000 series switches is Fulcrum’s FlexPipe™ low-latency packet-processing pipeline, which can parse, modify and apply multiple rules to traffic at more than 1 Billion packets per second in a completely deterministic manner. FlexPipe also can be upgraded in the field to support future data center networking protocols as they emerge. The FM6000 series devices are based on Fulcrum’s Alta switch architecture that, in addition to FlexPipe, features flexible 10G and 40G Ethernet port logic and third-generation RapidArray™ output-queued shared-memory architecture. Alta-based FocalPoint devices achieve unprecedented performance while maintaining low cut-through packet latencies of less than 300nS, regardless of configuration or features enabled. Fulcrum’s pioneering efforts in developing low-latency Ethernet switch technology has made FocalPoint the preferred data center fabric building-block for applications such as financial trading and computer clustering in today’s virtualized and high-scale data centers. Fulcrum Microsystems Inc.