At the same time, the Sunnyvale, Calif., firm announced a new 64-bit chip for high-powered "desktop-replacement" notebooks. The 32-bit/64-bit AMD64 processor 3700+ offers 32-bit performance and compatibility with emerging 64-bit software.
All of this activity is bound to increase the pressure on enterprise and service-provider networks to deliver high-quality, high-speed services and prevent network elements from acting as bottlenecks in multi-media data flows.
"Administrators are going to have to deal with increased content flowing over fixed [wide-area] capacity networks, while LANs and data centers will have to make sure that their edge devices can handle the increased throughput that 64-bit processors are going to feed into the network," says Mark Weiner, vice president of worldwide marketing at NetScaler Inc.
Wise network administrators will plan accordingly and simultaneously update their network infrastructure, to ensure that the network doesn't become the bottleneck for the 64-bit server future.
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