Meat and potatoes connectivity, data center edition: Cisco blasts out more 1Gb, 10GbE switch fabric interconnects, expands FCoE offering

We tend to focus a lot on the cutting edge of communications interconnect technology here at ICW; meanwhile, it's also often useful to keep an eye on what the heavy hitters of "found everywhere" computer hardware for data interconnect keep blasting out: more switch fabric technology for firmly entrenched and widely deployed 1Gb Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet as well as increasingly advanced Fibre Channel FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) implementations. (Although: FCoE is increasingly in a category all by itself.) Following such routine product releases allows one to keep in mind the fundamentally trending, vastly diverse market for communications interconnect technology - whether for both practical everyday and "leading edge" comms connectivity, there are huge, basically intersecting markets for each type of hardware.