Requirements & Performance Metrics for Next Generation Switch Fabrics

He has published several papers in the communication networks field. His area of research is focused on scheduling and quality of service (QoS) provisioning techniques for high speed switch fabrics and cable modems. About Zagros Networks Zagros Networks is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland focused on building silicon and software solutions for next generation metro and edge communications systems. Two leading venture groups, nationally recognized Mohr, Davidow Ventures and leading regional fund Novak Biddle Venture Partners, backed the company in its Series A round. The company is fundamentally changing the way system OEMs are designing their next generation platforms by providing the industries first rate-aware crossbar switching fabric and a unique software environment to leverage the power of this rate-aware architecture. Zagros' technology allows system OEMs for the first time to displace the use of costly, low performance shared memory fabric architectures utilized today when service guarantees through the system are an absolute requirement. The company's chipset is targeted at replacing all ASIC, shared memory and merchant crossbar architectures in systems today. Eight patents are pending or in process for the core intellectual property that enables our unique approach to not only guaranteeing bandwidth but also controlling latency, providing interflow isolation and enabling dynamic link provisioning.