Networking news this month: Will
25 Gbps Ethernet be the next speed of choice? Read
here why there's a couple good reasons to think so:
"The next generation of Intel "Grantley" CPUs are due to ship in the
third quarter, and servers with these processors will be able to forward
data faster than 10 Gbit/s. In the high-density server farms of cloud
providers like Google and Microsoft, using multiple 10 GbE would require
twice as many Ethernet switches with their associated space, power, and
cooling costs."
And on the
Fibre Channel side of the market, CISCO quietly (and maybe reluctantly?) roles out a bunch of
16 Gbps products:
A new low-cost 16 Gbps switch (
MDS9148S) and a smaller model of the MDS 9710 director (
MDS 9106), a 192-port director in a 9U form factor!
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