Switch Partners

Arista Networks

About Arista Networks: Arista Networks, previously known as Arastra, based in Menlo Park, California, was founded to deliver scalable networking interconnects for large-scale datacenters and cloud computing. Arista offers best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions for Cloud Networking^TM that redefine scalability, robustness, and price–performance. At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System (EOS^TM), pioneering new software architecture with self-healing and live in-service software upgrade capabilities. Arista's team is comprised of seasoned management and engineering talent bringing over a thousand man-years of expertise from leading network and server companies. For more information, please visit: http://www.aristanetworks.com

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BLADE Network Technologies

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.—the industry’s first vendor to focus exclusively on serving the network infrastructure requirements of the rapidly growing blade server market. Their products represent a strategic control point in a blade server system. They are the gateway for all traffic directed to and from a blade server system. As a strategic control point, their products have a direct influence on a blade server system’s performance, high availability, scalability, manageability, security, and total cost-of-ownership. Their blade server switches serve as the network backbone of thousands of HP Blade Systems and IBM BladeCenters at some of the world’s largest enterprises. Enterprises across 25 industry segments use BLADE Network Technologies blade server switches! For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net.

Brocade

Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets. It’s no wonder that Global 500 companies rely on Brocade technology to keep their businesses running around the clock. Brocade has pioneered the technologies that enable highly reliable and secure data center connectivity. Today most of the world’s data flows through Brocade equipment and data center networks built on Brocade technology. For more information please visit www.brocade.com

Force10 Networks

Force10 Networks is the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks. Based on a revolutionary system architecture that delivers best-in-class resiliency and massive scalability, Force10's TeraScale E-Series switch/routers ensure predictable application performance, increase network availability, and reduce operating costs. Today, many of the world's largest Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks depend on Force10 Networks. For additional information, please visit http://www.force10networks.com

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Fujitsu

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. FCPA provides innovative solutions for the U.S. marketplace. For more information visit http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/ethernet

Fulcrum Microsystems

Fulcrum Microsystems delivers high-performance, standards-based interconnect devices for use in computing, storage, and networking applications that are differentiated from traditional switch chips by their lower latency, higher level of integration, and improved power efficiency. For more information visit http://www.fulcrummicro.com/index.htm.

HP ProCurve

The ProCurve Networking business unit of HP is a supplier of enterprise networking solutions comprising wired and wireless enterprise networking products, services and solutions - including WAN routers, Ethernet switches, routing switches, wireless access points and network-management applications - which allow customers to build networks based on open standards that meet current and future needs for security, performance and reliability. Recognizing the necessary migration of intelligence and functionality to the network edge, the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture gives companies a cost-effective, easy-to-manage strategy for achieving command from the center with control to the edge. ProCurve was positioned in the challenger quadrant in research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc.'s 2004 Magic Quadrant Report for Global Campus LANs. For more information visit www.hp.com/rnd/.