[148029] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vitkovsky, Adam)
Fri Dec 30 04:59:55 2011
From: "Vitkovsky, Adam" <avitkovsky@emea.att.com>
To: Tom Hill <tom@ninjabadger.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:58:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: <1325188667.2646.4.camel@teh-desktop>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Actually an a Cisco presentation on Nexus 7k I asked whether it's possible =
to transport the FCoE over let's say EoMPLS or VPLS and did not get a strai=
ght answer though that was half a year ago
-but it would be really cool to connect hard-drives directly over continent=
s
adam
=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hill [mailto:tom@ninjabadger.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:58 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 10:06 -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> yes, let's get something with say fixed sized packets, ability to have
> predictable jitter and also, for fun, no more STP!
> Ethernet is too complex, maybe something simpler? I hear there's this
> new tech 'ATM'? it seems to fit the bill!
Pfft. Everyone knows that Fibre Channel's going to replace everything...
The minute we get those 128Gbit/sec transmission characteristics,
Ethernet's gonna be as good as RS-485.
