More data. More devices. More users. And more demands. What’s a poor network/data-center manager to do? Well, to quote Maverick and Goose in the movie Top Gun, “I feel the need… the need for speed!” And it seems more speed is an increasingly popular choice, according to the latest market research. While both Fast and [...]
The Lack of Innovation in the WAN
Dec 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
There are a number of differences between local- and wide-area networking. One obvious difference is speed: many IT organizations are in the process of upgrading their data center LAN links from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and they’re aware that 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps technology is under development. In contrast, due to the prohibitive [...]
There’s a storm coming – a data storm
Nov 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Is your WAN ready for 100 Gigabit Ethernet? Even if it won’t actually have to carry 100Gbit/s — which is probably just as well, given the potential cost of doing that — there is a good chance that it will be interconnecting 100Gig networks within the next few years. There are a lot of reasons [...]
The Changing IT Organization
Sep 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The pace of technological change is typically quite rapid. However, in most cases. a change in technology doesn’t cause a change in either the goals or the roles of the IT organization. For example, the ongoing adoption of continually higher speed Ethernet hasn’t changed how IT organizations design data center LANs nor has it changed [...]
Controlling Next-Gen WAN Costs
Sep 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
According to a new study from Information Week, “The Next-Gen WAN,” the biggest WAN game changer is the cloud, both public and private. Public cloud users will have to shift from the conventional WAN hub-and-spoke design to a distributed model, where services are delivered over Internet connections at each location, to reduce the load over [...]
Please Sir, I Want Some More!
Aug 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
To all those Olivers out there hungry for some more network, the IEEE feels your pain and is looking to enhance Ethernet. The global technical professional organization has formed the IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Higher Speed Ethernet Consensus group to help develop the next speed of Ethernet. The group’s launch in late August comes after [...]
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