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 straight answer though that was half a year ago -but it would be really cool to connect hard-drives directly over continents adam -----Original Message----- From: Tom Hill [mailto:tom@ninjabadger.net] 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.