Going to OFC/NFOEC? Plan to visit the Ethernet Alliance in booths #1253 and #2108.

At OFC/NFOEC 2011, the Ethernet Alliance is showcasing a live demonstration of some of the latest products developed for use in next generation data centers.  A live network will transport 100G traffic over an all-optical link, 40G and 10G traffic over both optical and copper links, and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) traffic through the network.  There will also be a static demo of storage over Ethernet equipment, test equipment, components, cables and connectors that are part of the Ethernet technology family being deployed into data centers and high performance computing environments. 

In addition, Ethernet Alliance member participants will also be holding intimate “Ask the Experts” Question and Answer sessions where attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions on a variety of Ethernet-related topics as well as hosting panel sessions. 

Panel Information:

The first panel will be on The Future of Higher Speed Ethernet and moderated by Charles Seifert, Ixia
 
Description:
Traffic demand in the network backbone continues to grow rapidly, driven by a number of popular applications such as IPTV, video-on-demand services, remote storage, IP data transit, mobile broadband services, VPN services, peer-to-peer streaming, etc.  While each application on its own has small impact, the cumulative effect of the growth in both use and application bandwidth requirements is having a huge impact.  This panel participants will discuss the capacity strain felt in these core networking and data centers and how higher speed ethernet technologies are meeting the need.

The secon panel will address Converging on Ethernet – New Storage Technologies for Greater IT Efficiency and Flexibility and be moderated by Jason Blosil, NetApp
 
Description:
Virtualization is increasing the requirement and opportunity to share more of the data center infrastructure.  Enhancements to Ethernet enable the converging of FC SANs to a common network technology with Data Center Bridging (DCB). Combined with storage virtualization, virtualization and enhanced Ethernet deliver new opportunities for increased efficiency and flexibility to address today’s and tomorrow’s IT challenges.

Stay tuned for more information, details and news. 

You can visit the Ethernet Alliance in booths #1253 and #2108.

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