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- ↑ "Allied Telesis Introduces Industry-First Line Rate Terabit Switching Fabric for its SwitchBlade® x8100 Ethernet/IP Switching Series" . Retrieved 2014-05-30.
- ↑ "Allied Telesis Unveils SwitchBlade x8112 Platform" . Retrieved 2013-07-18.