[156864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Sep 28 03:25:30 2012
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:39:57 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFANWtX+svDY=cVZPieV3fbBiY6Qwu_H5AOd+STUUEMEKyY3AQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 9/27/12 5:58 AM, Darius Jahandarie wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>> http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/terabit-ethernet-is-dead-for-now/
>>
>> Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now
> I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons
> as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the technology
> that actually ended up in most places. Could this be the same thing
> happening?
>
40Gb/s appears to be doing just fine in top of rack switches and
datacenter distribution layer. Given that it's in most server NIC
roadmaps in the relatively near term it doesn't have significant
barriers to becoming the volume offering of choice. getting datacenters
off of om3/4 multimode distribution is a long project however.
