10GB Ethernet demand continues

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SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire - May 12, 2008) - BLADE Network Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in network virtualization for servers and storage, announced that GameVee.com, formerly GeeVee.com, is operating its new Web 2.0 user-submitted game-play video community using IBM BladeCenter equipped with BLADE’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches. On GameVee.com, the fastest-growing game-play video sharing website, users can upload their own game-play videos and share them with other gamers around the world. Using a large set of Web 2.0 features, they share, promote, communicate and network around their videos.

“Hosting quality videos can be difficult and very stressful on our underlying network infrastructure, but BLADE 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches ensure we’ll have ample bandwidth for our ‘bloaty’ video content,” said 20-year-old Jason Bradicich, Founder and CCO of GameVee.com. “When someone is staring at their screen, a matter of seconds makes a huge difference in their experience of GameVee.com. That’s where BLADE’s switches ensure that we can get top performance from IBM BladeCenter and our custom LAMP — Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP — open source software environment. Building a video hosting site completely from scratch is not for the faint of heart, but we have a great team of developers and BLADE’s service has been superior, which is vital because any problems are magnified by the fact that GameVee.com’s technology is so cutting edge.”

Very cool, the need to scale up the infrastructure as more and more content, new media and rich media come online (like BBC’s iPlayer etc), continues, whether we talk 10GB Ethernet for content delivery, for virtualization network capacity etc or hpc applications will depend on your business, your constraints.