Blade Network Technologies, a supplier of switches to IBM and HP for data center blade server racks, has unveiled two new 1U switches. The G8100 is equipped with 24 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and designed for emerging high-volume 10 GE applications, like aggregation; and the G8000 is equipped with 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and four 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for uplinks or stacking. It is designed for rack-level server connectivity. (Click to close this window)