Comments on: Who Will Capture the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Crown?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:20:52 +0000

I find it interesting that people are all on about 10Gig Ethernet or 8Gig Fibrechannel when most people don't use the 2Gig they already have.

True story – an engagement I was on a few months ago had the customer upgrading from an older environment, so, as such, we ran a baseline health-check on their san and found that even during peak utilization they were running at no more than 30% on each switch. This means that of the 2Gigabit they had available they were using, on average, six-tenths of a gig.

Of course they *HAD* to go 4Gig, which goes to show you that marketing trumps engineering any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

4Gig, 8Gig, 10Gig, it doesn't matter. What matters is utilization, distance/latency, and ASIC layout.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:20:52 +0000

I find it interesting that people are all on about 10Gig Ethernet or 8Gig Fibrechannel when most people don't use the 2Gig they already have.

Of course they *HAD* to go 4Gig, which goes to show you that marketing trumps engineering any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

4Gig, 8Gig, 10Gig, it doesn't matter. What matters is utilization, distance/latency, and ASIC layout.

By: 3parfarley

3parfarley — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:15:19 +0000

It looks like Brocade and Foundry have been been working very hard, preparing for this. There might be a tiger in the tank at Brocade after all. I like the way they seem ready to take the bull by the horns. In the months to come we'll see how much conviction they have to follow up on this acquisition.