Aricent and Marvell Team Up for 'Top of Rack' Switches Webinar

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Aricent®, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, announced today that it will be hosting a live webinar on the Data Center Ethernet market with Marvell. The webinar will be broadcast on August 11, 2010 and will be moderated by TMCNet senior web editor, Patrick Barnard. Aricent and Marvell will focus on the key trends in the data center market.

The Data Center Ethernet market is highly competitive and segmented. This webinar will show how to break into the market and focus on "Top of Rack" switches – a key component to start the migration of Data Centers toward a unified Ethernet-based core. To build these unified switches, equipment manufacturers must address a range of new mandatory requirements and feature enhancements to differentiate their Data Center solutions.

The webinar topics will include:

• Usage of Infiniband and Fiber Channel together with Ethernet
• Key networking devices in the chain: Types of switches: Top of Rack (ToR), End of Row (EoR), Ethernet Core Switches, etc.
• ToR Switches and their importance in enabling Datacenter Ethernet
• Mandatory as well as additional requirements for the ToR switch
• Hardware and Software considerations to meet requirements of ToR switches

WHEN:

• The live webinar will take place August 11, 2010 at 9am PT

WHERE:

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=226922&sessionid=1&key=3F47619E7C2FFEF6E96608706B3BECD0&partnerref=aricent&sourcepage=register

WHO:

Rajesh Kumar Sundararajan, assistant vice president, Aricent

Rajesh Kumar Sundararajan is the assistant vice president for Data Communications products at Aricent, focusing on routing and switching solutions including Aricent's widely deployed Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS). Sundararajan has over 16 years of industry experience in strategizing, managing and developing software for communications and network applications across multiple technologies which include ATM, LAN switching, Carrier and Metro Ethernet. Prior to Aricent, Sundararajan was employed at Wipro Technologies. He holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, India and a Masters in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Shalabh Kothari, senior product line manager, Marvell Semiconductor

Shalabh Kothari is a senior product line manager at Marvell Semiconductor focusing on Ethernet solutions for Datacenter, Enterprise and Service Provider systems. Prior to that, he managed a series of Metro Ethernet Access and Aggregation products at Riverstone Networks. Kothari has over 12 years of multifaceted technology experience including consulting, service provider deployments, strategic marketing, product management and ecosystem development. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California.

About Marvell: Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit http://www.marvell.com.

About Aricent: Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company's investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com.

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