10Gb Ethernet Alliance is Formed

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.'"

Comments

Math on /.

[Idiomatick]

i'm worried they had to say 4 * 2.5 = 10 on /.

Re:Bonding for Unlimited Bandwidth

[Em Ellel]

yes, look up "etherchannel" or "bonding" Wow, that takes me back years. A little over 10 years ago, straight out of college and not knowing any better I purchased the "cisco etherchannel interconnect" kit for their catalyst switches. I had to work hard to track down a cisco reseller that actually had it (which should have been a clue). When I finally got it, the entire "kit" contents were, I kid you not, two cross connect cat5 cables. I learned an important lesson about marketing that day.

-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?

[Pinback]

In your case, you really do get to the internet via tubes.

Re:Awesome!

[mrsteveman1]

BECAUSE silly, you are supposed to be using quantum drives by now. Flip a bit on drive 1 in room A, and drive 2 in room B flips the same way.

Sheesh

Re:Fibre only?

[darkpixel2k]

Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of cable. You should have run conduit. That is the only way to future proof a home for data. When I renovated my last home, I ran conduit to every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data cables at all until the house was finished. When The house was done, I just pulled the phone, coax and Ethernet lines to the rooms I wanted. If and when fiber, or a higher quality copper is needed, it i will just be a matter of taping the new cable to the end of the old, and pulling it through.

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.

...but seriously--wouldn't jefferies tubes make working on the utilities a million times easier? (And cost a million times more...)