On 9/27/12 5:58 AM, Darius Jahandarie 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
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote: 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.