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Raptor Networks Technology Inc announced the industry's first fiber connected clustered or mesh switches for enterprise and high performance networking applications. Based on industry-standard high-speed enterprise switch technology, Raptor Network's fiber connected distributed-stack switches now operate as a common entity while allowing for a physical separation of up to 10 km between switches. A series of 10 Gb fiber links allow for up to 60 Gb of aggregate connectivity between geographically separated switches in various configurations. This technology is transformational to large enterprise and campus environments that require more affordable networking topologies and solutions for redundant, low latency connections between data centers or work groups separated by distances beyond those which today's copper links can support. Applications include, but are not limited to business continuity, simplified metro backbones, storage area networks and video transport. With Raptor Networks' new 10 Gigabit fiber connected distributed-stack switches, greatly improved and simplified building-to-building high-performance networking is now available. Tom Wittenschlaeger, chief executive officer of Raptor Networks, noted, "As we noted in our announcement of our patent filing yesterday, general availability of affordable high performance switches that may be geographically dispersed while acting as a single device completely redefine the topologies available to network architects seeking to configure next-generation scalable and fault tolerant domains. The options now achievable through this evolutionary leap forward may well redefine how networks are configured from this point on." The Raptor Networks 10 Gigabit fiber connected geographically distributed-stack switches are based on industry standard second generation Gigabit Ethernet switch technology that offers the industry's first complete multi-layer (Layer 2 through Layer 7) scalable and distributed-stack 10 GbE switches optimized for performance-centric networks.