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Woven threatens to make 10Gig E cheap and stable18 Apr 2007 04:58 Fibre Channel? Infiniband? Forget itOptions?By Gary McCabe
Posted Wednesday 18th April 2007 09:39 GMT
"Customers not so fond of start-ups have a few options to route around Woven. You can wait for 10Gig E costs to come down. Or you can hope that Fibre Channel over IP/Ethernet standards evolve quicker than planned." Indeed. Or, we can wait for Cisco to buy them. In about, what- June?!!? Gary Fulcrum-based?By Mark Harrison
Posted Wednesday 18th April 2007 13:28 GMT
Given its a 144 port switch, it probably uses a 24-port switch ASIC. Fulcrum has a 24-port 10GE switch ASIC. Broadcom has a 20-port ASIC. The Fulcrum ASIC is also used in Force 10's 24-port 10GE switch. OK. That covers the switch end of things . . .By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 19th April 2007 07:24 GMT
but what happens at the server end of the ethernet cable? I thought real 90 meter ethernet doing 10G was out of spec for PCI, and therefore there are no NICs that can do it. It's a power thing, aparently. PCI has power limitations that 10G NIC manufactures can't meet? Has this changed? The period for commenting on this story has finished |
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