Dune Networks Releases its Scalable Switching Fabric

Dune Networks, a start-up based in Agoura Hills, California with R&D in Israel, announced the immediate availability of its FE200 SAND switching fabric, a self-routing switching device that integrates 64 full-duplex 3.125 Gbps serial links. Dune's SAND chipset provides a non-blocking switching fabric, ingress/egress traffic management and scheduling. The design allows equipment to scale in terms of port rates, port densities and service types, without requiring changes to the core switching fabric and traffic management functions. The new FE200 device allows any port rate to be interconnected through the switching system. The FE200 fabric is a self-healing fabric. 1+1, N+1, and N-1 fault-tolerance schemes are supported. The FE200 fabric supports a graceful performance degradation scheme, guaranteeing interconnectivity regardless of functioning fabric capacity. Dune Networks said a system vendor could start with 10Gbps port rates and scale to 40 Gbps and higher future rates of 100 Gbps and 160 Gbps, all switched via the same FE200 device.