Woven Systems, Inc., a leading innovator of Ethernet fabric solutions, has announced the introduction of its EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch. The switch is the first of a new class of switches to meet the growing needs of next generation interconnect requirements and applications targeting multi-core servers, IP storage, data center grids, server consolidation and virtualization. With up to 144 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports, the EFX 1000 delivers the industry's highest port density solution - neatly packaged in an energy-efficient chassis that provides seamless setup and management for ease of system deployment and Active Congestion Management for optimal performance.
Until recently, network architect's options for scaling network infrastructure were limited, because of Gigabit Ethernet's limited scalability and the added latency and complexity of Layer 3 routing. Woven Systems eliminates Ethernet's scalability limitations with a low cost, massively scalable 10 GE fabric that delivers high bandwidth and low latency. Woven removes capacity bottlenecks with resilient, non-blocking multi-path fabrics scaling to over 4000 10 GE edge ports. To reliably assure high performance and availability across the fabric, Woven's patented vSCALE