10 Gigabit Ethernet Prices Falling

Force10 Networks Inc. next week will give 10 Gigabit-per-second Ethernet a shove down the price curve with a 44 percent reduction in the cost of its line cards.

Prices for the emerging high-speed networking technology, in use today mostly in educational, research and government installations, have begun to inch downward among the primary vendors supplying 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.

Since Extreme Networks Inc. introduced its 10 Gigabit Ethernet offering eight months ago, it has discounted its list price twice, according to John Erlandson, director of product management at the Santa Clara, Calif., company.

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