Teak Technologies
Teak Technologies has pioneered a new category of scalable and standards-compliant AZ-10GE and AZ-GE switching solutions that deliver breakthrough price-performance and transform data center networks into an Applications Acceleration Zone, a discontinuous innovation that stands to forever alter the Ethernet switching landscape.
Today, Teak Technologies is growing rapidly with an expanding portfolio of AZ-10GE and AZ-1GE switching solutions that are at various stages of trial with some of the world's leading compute/storage OEMs, financial institutions, research universities, broadband and mixed-media companies, telecommunication carriers, and IPTV/cable service providers.
Applications Acceleration Zones Scale Linearly Across the Data Center
Applications Acceleration Zone
An Applications Acceleration Zone is to a data center as a "clean room" is to a semiconductor facility - or, an "operating room" to a hospital. Operationally structured as a network overlay, an Applications Acceleration Zone offers an isolated environment with tightly controlled levels of prevailing artifacts that reduce application performance. An Acceleration Zone enables distributed and virtualized server- and storage-based applications to maintain their vital performance signs across a unified data center-wide network.
Deployment
LANs based on AZ-10GE (Acceleration Zone-10GE) allow performance-impacting traffic to cut through all networking artifacts including congestion. Innovative IT managers substitute AZ-10GE for ordinary 10GE in all mission critical applications with stringent requirements for performance, reliability, and predictability. AZ-10GE LANs have 4x fewer links - optimally utilized to their capacity, consume up to 4x less power, are simpler to manage, and reduce time-to-profitability.
AZ-10GE switching solutions can be deployed everywhere in the data center - from within a blade server chassis, to aggregating server- and storage-based application traffic at a rack-level in "top-of-rack," "adjacent-rack," and some "end-of-row" configurations, and then to scaling linearly across the entire access layer. Innovative Acceleration Zone portals, implemented via Teak's gateway appliances, also enable applications with ordinary 1GE and 10GE connectivity to participate in the Applications Acceleration Zone without requiring any fork-lift upgrades.
Applications Acceleration Zone Attributes |
10Gbps overlay network (AZ-10GE) |
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Isolated environment for delivering predictable application performance |
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It is Ethernet - just simply a whole lot better |
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All applications run unmodified |
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Complementary approach. Requires no fork-lift upgrades |
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Works with legacy 1GE and 10GE equipment |
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Uses portals or gateway entry points for legacy 1GE and ordinary 10GE applications |
AZ-10GE Performance Metrics
Performance Metric
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Ordinary 10GE |
Teak's AZ-10GE |
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IEEE Standards Compliant and Interoperable |
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Network Performance: |
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Goodput |
~2.5Gbps |
~10Gbps |
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Link Utilization at 10GE Goodput |
~25% |
~100% |
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Number of 10GE Ports |
4x |
1 |
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Price-Performance Advantage |
1 |
4x |
Link Performance / Watt |
1 |
4x |
Adaptability |
Low |
Very high |
Applications Acceleration: |
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Acceleration Factor |
0 |
Up to 3x |
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Predictability |
Medium and Erratic |
Highly Predictable |
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End-to-End Session Latency |
Unpredictable, Transient |
Low, Predictable, Stable, Adapts to large RTT delays |
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Performance Guarantee |
Limited |
Enforces SLA-driven performance metrics |