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IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard

Posted by timothy on from the time-has-come dept.

An anonymous reader writes "EEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba, a new standard governing 40Gbps and 100Gbps Ethernet operations. An amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the first standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds, paves the way for the next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching. The new standard will act as the catalyst needed for unlocking innovation across the greater Ethernet ecosystem. IEEE 802.3ba is expected to trigger further expansion of the 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet family of technologies by driving new development efforts, as well as providing new aggregation speeds that will enable 10Gbps Ethernet network deployments."

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  1. Much welcomed tech by mnmn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's interesting how this will increase the adoption of iSCSI storage, yet the original reason to go to iSCSI will be lost since fiber cables will have to be laid.

    Either way 1Gbit Ethernet is beginning to feel a bit like a bottleneck with storage and other bottlenecks being removed.

    It'll take some time between ratification and cheap D-Link switches...

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    1. Re:Much welcomed tech by whit3 · · Score: 1, Interesting

      It's interesting how this will increase the adoption of iSCSI storage, yet the original reason to go to iSCSI will be lost since fiber cables will have to be laid.

      That seems a tad disingenuous. The real reason for iSCSI was a
      Microsoft price structure that made a network file service very
      expensive unless it went in through the 'disk-on-SCSI-bus'
      back door.

      Linux and iSCSI was a way around the high cost of
      a MS server/client system. None of the Linux-only or Macintosh
      network systems were so encumbered, and worked
      quite well without any iSCSI.

  2. Re:Disc speeds by afidel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    100Gb isn't for server to server or server to storage connections today, it's for network aggregation (switch to switch ISL's). 40Gb is there for server to storage on some high end configurations.

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  3. Re:Disc speeds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    European internet exchange points (IXP's) such as LINX and AMS-IX are eagerly waiting 100GE. There's only so many 10GE interfaces you can aggregate together between large chasis-based switches.