Whether the choice is iSCSI or FCoE, FocalPoint is well-suited to enable the convergence of storage and Ethernet in the datacenter.

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Overview

FocalPoint can be used in a variety of high performance switch fabric applications. Data center switches can be developed which take advantage of congestion management and low latency. Computer clustering and storage networking can show increased performance with FocalPoint's extremely low latency. Telecom systems can take advantage of FocalPoint's quality of service and congestion management features in backplanes as well as load balancing and aggregation systems. Click on the links below to discover more in each application area:

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

The extremely low latency of the FM4000 family make it ideal for computer clustering applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC). Using FocalPoint, up to 288 compute blades can be interconnected in a three stage fabric. This allows scalable high-performance computing to be achieved with less than 600nS blade-to-blade latency.

Datacenter

The advanced features available in the FocalPoint switch family help datacenter designers cope with the problems of scalability, space, power and cost as they evolve to meet increasing demands for applications such as networking, storage and computation.

Storage

FocalPoint has many advanced performance and congestion management features that make it an attractive solution for replacing the storage fabric, enabling the transition to a single unified datacenter fabric.

Telecom

With high density, high availability, quality of service and congestion management features, FocalPoint can support telecom applications including high-performance backplanes, aggregation, and load balancing.