At the recent Ethernet Technology Summit, there was grousing going on about the need for more power-conservative switches, for more manageable switches, but most of all for faster Ethernet.
Facebook, for one, spoke of having 40Gbits coming out of each rack in the data center, and related how its 10Gb Ethernet fabric is not enough and won’t scale. There are new standards (100Gb Ethernet and Terabit Ethernet) but they are not yet finalized. Analysts suggest that there is a pent-up demand for 100Gb Ethernet, and the conference bore that out.
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