April 30, 2014, Ethernet technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Trevor Hiatt from the Rapid IO organization and IDT described the recent developments in RapidIO that enable a low-latency fabric with Ethernet scale out. The combination of the two protocols provides an alternative to technologies such as SCSI and Fiber Channel in a network. Networking architectures are…
April 29, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Joel Goergen from Cisco discussed the drives for increasing the data rates for next generation Ethernet systems. The ongoing trends have to be balanced with the constraints of physics and economics to be viable. System interconnect has moved from 20 Mbps in a 2kW chassis to 25…
April 2, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—The opening of the summit looked at the emergence of software-defined networks (SDN) and the relationship to OpenFlow. Craig Matsumoto from Light Reading chaired the session. The emergence of SDN is a transforming force that is evolving to real use and investments. The overlay of OpenFlow offers…
April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John D’Ambrosia from Dell and the Ethernet Alliance described the efforts to develop 400Gbps Ethernet. These efforts are the start of something that will lead to improvements for everyone. The industry is getting involved in early standards developments and research. The ecosystem of Ethernet will change to…
April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Jane Li from Huawei projected the possibilities for Ethernet in the next 40 years. She offered a range of possibilities and extrapolated from current prospects and possibilities. Some trends from the present will be factors in future evolution. When Ethernet was developed 40 years ago by Bob…
February 22, 2012, San Jose, CA – This years ethernet summit focused on data flow in the network, virtualization and also delays/latency/packet loss in the datapath. As the networking world shifts from 10GbE to 40G/100GbE backplanes and interconnects for servers, a number of the data integrity issues have to be addressed. The first day of…