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Myricom

• Myricom cards and switches that interconnect at speeds of up to 1.28 Gbps in each direction.
• It has two different forms: copper-based and optical.
• The copper version for LANs can communicate at full speed at a distance of 10 feet but can operate at half that speed at distances of up to 60 feet.
• The fiber version can operate at full speed up to 6.25 miles on single-mode fiber, or about 340 feet on multimode fiber.
• It has some different network configurations: direct point to point, hub-based, or switch-based.
• Its average latency between two directly connected nodes is 5 to 18 microseconds, a magnitude or more faster than Ethernet.
• Its switches can be connected in cascade, and this only increments the latency between segments.