August 22, 2013, Hot Interconnects Symposium, San Jose, CA—George Papen from UC San Diego talked about the mixed optical-electrical datacenter and the changes in workloads that can benefit from this infrastructure. Current research indicates that the control plane and optical circuit switches can live together and work well. Scaling out the datacenter in big systems…
June 5, 2012, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Sean McCann from Qualcomm Atheros demonstrated the latest in wireless connectivity solutions. The use of hardware acceleration for the communications stack eliminates the lag and latency of Windows and other operating systems. Killer Technology was part of Bigfoot Networks in 2007, which was acquired by Atheros, and subsequently…
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…