Are you ready for 40 Gigabit Ethernet?

In a recent TechTarget article, David Jacobs argues that even smaller data centers and network backbones will undoubtedly require 40GbE.

The factors contributing to this trend include:

• Faster processors and increasing server computing capability
• Increasing virtualization usage and traffic from each server
• Applications, such as big data, with multiple components on multiple racks
• Mobile devices connected via 802.11n, 802.11ac or 4G putting pressure on backbones and data centers
• Convergence of network and storage data

As 10GbE takes hold, the network must be upgraded. Jacobs points out the result:  “Upstream links to the core and to other aggregation devices must then be upgraded to 40 GbE or, in some networks, to 100 GbE.”

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