01-28-2008, 08:57 AM
"In his latest book, tech pundit Nicholas Carr put a name on a trend that's transforming information technology: As the world becomes more networked, he points out, computing power is undergoing "the Big Switch," moving off of desktops and into massive data centers, where it's cheaper and more efficient.
Now Cisco, whose name is synonymous with networking, is eyeing that migration to the data center, and working on a big switch of its own--the biggest, in fact, that it has ever produced. On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix in about 40 seconds."
Link: Forbes.com
Now Cisco, whose name is synonymous with networking, is eyeing that migration to the data center, and working on a big switch of its own--the biggest, in fact, that it has ever produced. On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix in about 40 seconds."
Link: Forbes.com