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White Papers (General)

These white papers are currently available for download.
Also see: HP Specific White Papers and IBM Specific White Papers

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General
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Clabby Analytics: Overloaded Networks and the Evolution of “Rackonomics”

  490KB

IDC: “Making the Case for Blade Switches”

  150KB

The Tolly Group: “Price/Performance of Integrated vs. External Switching”

 

IDC: “Making the Business Case for Blade Servers with Embedded Layer 2-7 Switches”

  267KB

NETXEN: “Linux Sockets Acceleration”

Maximizing Efficiency and Performance in the Data Center

 

NETXEN: “10Gig Chimney—Smoking the Competition”

How NetXen’s Intelligent NIC™ Works with Microsoft’s TCP Chimney Offload to Increase Network Throughput and Reduce CPU Overhead

 
Storage

Storage Area Network—Evolution

This paper examines the history of Ethernet against other competing networking technologies of the day, and proposes that factors including Ethernet’s ease of maintenance, price performance, and speeds of 10Gbps and beyond will drive widespread deployment of iSCSI SANs.

  225KB

Using BLADE Switches for iSCSI SAN Connectivity

This case study shows the TCO benefits of deploying a storage area network (SAN) based on iSCSI and blade switches from BLADE Network Technologies.

  408KB
Technology Bulletin

Blade Servers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Help Scale Video on Demand

Blade Network Technologies 10Gb Ethernet Switch module for the IBM BladeCenter H chassis is well suited for delivering VoD. This technical bulletin describes how combining the benefits of blade servers with the high amount of throughput needed for VoD IPTV make the IBM BladeCenter H an ideal platform for hosting VoD servers.

  125KB
Virtualization

NETXEN: “The Future of Ethernet I/O Virtualization is Here Today”

 
Technical Briefs

Recommended Transceivers and Cables for 10G Ethernet Switches

Blade Network Technologies’ Ethernet Switches use many different kinds of ports and transceivers. There is a mix of SFP, SFP+, XFP and CX4 ports for Gigabit and 10GbE connectivity. This document provides recommended Gigabit and 10GbE transceivers for use in these switches. It also includes some part numbers for recommended CX4 Cables.

  142KB

40G and 100G Ethernet

Just as 10G Ethernet is going through widespread deployment in the datacenter, the discussion has now shifted to even higher speed interconnects—namely 40G and 100G Ethernet.

  137KB

Fabric convergence with loss-less Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

This paper provides an overview of two important emerging technologies, Converged Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE and highlights how they combined to enable the evolution of Fibre Channel SANs to Ethernet. This allows the convergence of Networking, Storage and Clustering to a single low cost, easy to manage fabric.

  503KB

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