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Quadrics, the leading developer and supplier of high performance interconnect, announces today the new family of product based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Quadrics' QsTenG takes Quadrics' technology and expertise developed in HPC and applies it to the rapidly growing 10 Gbps Ethernet market. QsTenG's first instantiation is a compact (8U) switch for 8-96 ports. Follow on products will increase the switch size first to 160 and then to 1600 ports. The highly integrated Quadrics 10 Gbps switch is ideal for bandwidth intensive applications such as high performance compute clusters, grid-based computing systems and storage networks. Quadrics' HPC driven latency focus led naturally to the development of a high port count layer 2 switch. Fast cut-through routing provides QsTenG with port-to-port latencies of 0.5 to 1.5 microseconds. At the same time, the use of the 10GBASE-CX4 physical layer enables 10Gbps Ethernet to run over low cost copper cables making it applicable to server clusters and storage networks. Cristoforo Romanelli, Quadrics' CEO, stated: "Quadrics' mission is to maintain its leadership as the supplier of the highest performance interconnect to the supercomputing community, while at the same time exploiting its expertise in high performance networking in the wider field of standards based solutions. By having two families of products, Quadrics is meeting the requirements of the most demanding customers in both supercomputing and in the commercial data centre. QsNet's new generations for the high-end requirements and QsTenG based on 10Gbs Ethernet, Quadrics is defining the future of High Performance computing.