AZ-10GE – Not Just Another Acronym – A Tectonic Shift!

Teak Technologies has pioneered a new category of scalable and standards-compliant switching solutions that deliver breakthrough price-performance and transform data center networks into an Applications Acceleration Zone (AAZ), a discontinuous innovation that forever alters the Ethernet switching landscape at a fundamental level.

Applications Acceleration Zone?
An Applications Acceleration Zone is an isolated data center network environment with tightly controlled levels of prevailing artifacts that reduce performance of distributed mission-critical applications.

An Applications Acceleration Zone is to a data center as a "clean room" is to a semiconductor facility - or, for the un-initiated, an "operating room" to a hospital.

Think of "germ-free." Think of "isolation." Think of "environmental pollutants." Think of "vital signs." Think of "life saving."

Clean/operating rooms are isolated environments with tightly controlled levels of contamination from pollutants. Isolation is just as critical while processing semiconductor wafers as it is for vital life saving purposes.

Collating the Concepts
AAZ enables applications to maintain their vital performance signs in distributed and virtualized data center environments.

LANs based on AZ-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.

Applications Acceleration Zone Attributes
- 10Gbps overlay network (AZ-10GE)
- Isolated environment delivers predictable application performance
- It is Ethernet - just simply a whole lot better
- All applications run unmodified
- Complementary approach. Requires no forklift upgrades
- Works with legacy 1GE and 10GE equipment
- Leverages portals or gateway entry points for legacy 1GE and ordinary 10GE applications

How Large is Large?
AZ-10GE switching solutions can be deployed everywhere in the data center - from within a blade server chassis, to aggregating rack server and storage traffic at a rack-level, and then to scaling linearly across the entire access layer. Innovative portal and gateway appliances also enable applications with ordinary 1GE and 10GE connectivity to participate in the Applications Acceleration Zone without requiring any fork-lift upgrades.

Acceleration Zone Scales Linearly Across the Data Center