VMware recently released Update 2 for vSphere 6.0. Update 2 is full of new features for both ESXi and vCenter Server, including ESXi support for 25G and 50G ethernet speeds. Read this VMware vSphere blog for an overview of new features.
By Asim Rasheed, Ixia Product Management The hot word du jour in networking these days is 25 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). Starting with data centers, this technology is fast supplanting 10GbE as the de-facto data center Ethernet technology. HOW DOES IT WORK? 25GbE uses single-lane 25Gbps link protocol that leverages existing 100GbE technology. What this means is […]
In its most recent Server-Class Adapter & LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) Long-Range Forecast Report, Crehan Research Inc. projects that much steeper server-class Ethernet networking price declines will result in a significant increase in bandwidth deployed, enabling the next phase of cloud services. The firm forecasts that the dollar-per-gigabit cost of server-class Ethernet networking bandwidth will fall to […]
Eventually 25Gb Ethernet is going to displace 10GbE as the preferred server interconnect inside millions of data center racks. Epic migrations like this are sparked by a huge ecosystem of vendors exchanging products, defining reference architectures, and qualifying solutions needed by channel partners and customers to quickly assimilate new technology. For 25GbE, that process started on April […]
By Timothy Prickett Morgan There is never enough bandwidth in a datacenter that is the size of a football field and that is expected to work more or less like a single computer. While 10 Gb/sec Ethernet on the server and 40 Gb/sec Ethernet on the backbone is fine for many enterprises today, hyperscalers, cloud […]
Ixia continues to set the pace in delivering production-ready solutions that enable customers to successfully deploy 100GbE, 50GbE, and 25GbE, with the introduction of the new NovusTM QSFP28 High-Density 100GbE Load Module (Novus). This new solution from Ixia increases test flexibility and reduces capital expenditure by offering multi-rate Ethernet test ports that eliminate the need to […]
A recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries, revealed the Ethernet Switch market continues to fragment with Data Center Switches driving almost all the growth in the overall market through 2020. Data center sales for Arista, Huawei, and Juniper surged in […]
At Mobile World Congress, QLogic® introduced the new QLogic FastLinQ™ 45000 Series of Ethernet controllers, enabling 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100Gb Ethernet (100GbE)-based network connectivity on a single high-performance ASIC. The latest QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet-based technology is highly extensible and flexible, delivering a broad set of capabilities customized to address the needs of the […]
by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform How much of a premium do you think that networking behemoth Cisco Systems plans to charge for its 25G Ethernet switches compared to their 10G predecessors? How does zero grab you? Or even less than zero? That’s the plan, and this is surprising but competition will do that. […]
By Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Next Platform Now, QLogic is aiming at the hyperscalers and those who want to emulate them with a new line of server adapters, code-named “Big Bear” and sold under the QL4500 brand, that support the 25G Ethernet protocol that hyperscalers Google and Microsoft initiated back in the summer of 2014 […]
