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Software-Defined Network Switch Reference Design at IDF
September 11, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Recep Ozdag from Intel and Gershon Schatzberg from Wind River presented a reference design for software-defined network platform switches. Software-defined networking expands the network virtualization to network functions and enables data-control plane separation. Virtualization has driven utilization rates in datacenters to over 50 percent and has enabled large…
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Hybrid Datacenter Networks
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…
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Fabrics and Interconnect at Hot Chips ’12
August 28, 2012, Hot Chips Conference, Cupertino, CA—The improvements in the core compute functions moves the data bottleneck to other areas of the systems. Three papers describe the on-going efforts to improve the data transport functions within a system. Ronald Dreslinski from the University of Michigan talked about a self-arbitrating crossbar for networks on chip…
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Arista Networks Rolls out 10G Switches with Copper
May 2012 – At a small gathering in San Francisco Arista Co-Founder and industry luminary Andy Bechtolsheim their new high density Arista7100T auto-negotiating 10GbaseT switches. Available in a 1U rack form factor, the 24 port and 48 port switches feature a low cost cabling up to 100m with Cat6a connections and up to 55m with…
