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10 Gigabit and Then Some
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Posted by: Tweaker
The 802.3 standards group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers last month approved the IEEE 802.3ae specification for 10 gigabit ethernet, with recent tests of the technology by the 10 gig ethernet alliance being run over fiber. This month, some researchers at Berkeley have gone a bit further, obtaining sustained 10.6 Gigabit Ethernet performance between a pair of Linux clusters, each at the ends of a set of Force10 Networks switches connected via 2 pairs of 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. More on the research can be found in this article at SuperComputing On-Line.
On June 17th it was announced that the final milestone in the IEEE standards approval process was reached last week when the IEEE 802.3ae specification for 10 Gigabit Ethernet was approved as an IEEE standard by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board.
With that announcement the speed of Ethernet operations, at least on paper, saw one heavy-duty increase. However, achieving a 10-fold increase in actual Ethernet performance is still a challenge that can only be met with very high-end equipment and expertise.
To say the test went well would be something of an understatement. The Berkeley team not only met its goal of demonstrating sustained 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance, they surpassed it, delivering a sustained data transfer rate of 10.6 gigabits per second.
Source: Super Computing Online
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