Users lament state of Ethernet

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• Google
• Cisco
• Arnold Schwarzenegger

1. Vendors have a lot more work to do to make Ethernet ready for large-scale data center duty. According to users at the Ethernet Technology Summit here this week, Ethernet could be a lot greener and "fabric-friendly." This shows that recent efforts by vendors and standards organizations -- such as the Data Center Bridging work by the IEEE and Cisco's next-generation Nexus platforms -- to ruggedize and reduce the power consumption of Ethernet switches and routers for data center applications are still incomplete. "The biggest, baddest switch you can buy today is still too small -- woefully too small," said ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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