Executive Insight: why distributed switching may be the way forward

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Distributed switching is one of the candidates for the next generation of network technologies. Richard Brandon, Chief Marketing officer for Intune Networks, explains why merging switching and transport onto a single platform and essentially going optical on the backplane - stretching it into a mesh of long-distance connections - makes lots of sense. Think of an optical cloud covering a metro area with switch ports at its edge.

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