By Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Next Platform As for hyperscalers, Robbins said that Cisco had changed tack with them about 18 months ago and was “moving into a collaborative co-development mode” with these big consumers of switches and servers. We don’t think Cisco sells any servers to hyperscalers, but it certainly has ins at the service […]
According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries, specialized software on commodity servers will cannibalize other markets, such as storage arrays and network appliances. “Despite downward pressure from server virtualization and emerging containerization trends, which further boost the utilization of […]
By Timothy Prickett Morgan We have been talking about the impending and now delivered 100 Gb/sec speeds for InfiniBand used by HPC centers and for Ethernet to be used by hyperscalers that it is hard to remember sometimes that the enterprise is a significant laggard when it comes to network bandwidth. For a lot of […]
Multi-vendor feasibility event sees 86 percent success rate, shows unanticipated level of maturity in pre-standard 25Gb/s Ethernet equipment and cabling The Ethernet Alliance today shared details of its recent 25 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) technical feasibility event held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, N.H. With 25Gb/s technologies. The event produced […]
Mentor Graphics today announced the Veloce VirtuaLAB Ethernet environment supports 25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet. This support enables highly efficient, emulation-based verification for the massive Ethernet-based designs being created today. The huge surge in demand for connectivity has had a profound effect on the size of switch and router designs, making them among the largest IC […]
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Time: 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET / 15:00 UTC Duration: 45 min + Q&A Overview The first interoperability tests with 25/50/100GE technology are complete, and products are shipping. New 25/50/100GE fabrics will deliver higher bandwidth for improved application performance in the data center with reduced cost. These new fabrics […]
A presentation by Xilinx covering 25G technology and applications.
The UNH-IOL hosted a 40G and 100G Plugfest and 25G Feasibility event during the week of June 22 – 25, 2015. It was an interoperability event for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet devices, and for demonstrating interoperability of devices from at over 20 companies and cover a wide variety of port types including 40 and 100GBASE:-CR4, […]
Dell Networking has expanded its data center portfolio with the new Z9100, S4048, and the S3048, giving customers operating system choices with low latency and high density, flexible 1, 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE switching to address the shift to next-generation multi-rate, open-enabled architectures. The new flexible, open networking (ON) products help enterprise customers move toward […]
The transmission of Ethernet frames at 25 Gigabits per second (25GE) is making its entrance in the converged network adapter market. IHS(NYSE: IHS) projects around 2,500 25GE ports will ship in the fourth quarter of 2015, growing to 9 percent of all adapter ports shipped worldwide in 2019, according to the IHS Infonetics SAN and […]
