10Gb Ethernet Alliance is Formed 173
Lucas123 writes "Nine storage and networking vendors have created a consortium to promote the use of 10GbE. The group views it as the future of a combined LAN/SAN infrastructure. They highlight the spec's ability to pool and virtualize server I/O, storage and network resources and to manage them together to reduce complexity. By combining block and file storage on one network, they say, you can cut costs by 50% and simplify IT administration. 'Compared to 4Gbit/sec Fibre Channel, a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet-based storage infrastructure can cut storage network costs by 30% to 75% and increases bandwidth by 2.5 times.'"
Math on /. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bonding for Unlimited Bandwidth (Score:3, Funny)
-Em
P.S. In all fairness to Cisco the cost of the kit was about same as you would expect to pay for two cross connect cables in a retail store. Not that I would have bought cat5 cables at a store.
Re:Fibre only? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Awesome! (Score:3, Funny)
Sheesh
Re:Fibre only? (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of conduit. You should have run jefferies tubes. That is the only way to future proof a home for everything. When I renovated my last home, I ran jefferies tubes between every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data or power cables at all until the house was finished. When the house was done, I just crawled in a jefferies tube and pulled cables to the rooms I wanted. If and when my ODN needs a speed upgrade, it will just be a matter of entering the jefferies tube, reversing the polarity on some colerful widget embedded behind a panel and everything will be just fine.