SC09

Modern data centers are the lynchpin of today’s successful enterprises and with so many developments happening in the industry its paramount for IT managers to understand what enables innovations such as cloud computing, cluster computing and virtualization. The networks of today must be prepared to meet tomorrow’s challenges of convergence, consolidation and application delivery performance.

The Ethernet Alliance’s demonstration, Ethernet:  THE Converged Network, showcased at SC09 Booth #1259 is a multi-vendor, multi-technology event that showed Ethernet’s ability to support high performance networking. This showcase highlighted how Ethernet delivers a high performance enterprise data center infrastructure while converging client messaging, storage and sever application communications over a unified network.

This interoperability event features the role, interaction and performance of a multitude of switching and routing technologies across layers 1 to 7. This real-world converged network demonstration supported:

• iSCSI

• Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol (iWARP)

• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

• 10 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP+, Short-Haul Copper, 10GBASE-T)

• Data Center Bridging (DCB)

• Virtualization

• Cloud Computing

Presentations from SC09:

• 10GBASE-T Overview
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Primer
• SFP+ Interface Overview
• iSCSI Primer
  
• iWARP Overview: An RDMA over Ethernet Technology
• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) Overview
  
• THE Converged Network
  
• SC09 Overview

SC09:  Ethernet THE Converged Network- November 09

Continuous reduction of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the ultimate goal for building next generation data center networks. Key technology transitions applicable to future data centers are network convergence and virtualization. The Ethernet Alliance multi-vendor, multi-technology showcase demonstrates a proof-of-concept converged network based on 10GbE showing its ability to provide high performance networking for various traffic types, including LAN, SAN and IPC traffic. This showcase highlights how network convergence takes advantage of high speed Ethernet to deliver client messaging, storage, and server application communications over a unified network while maintaining the same level of high performance delivered in separate networks. In addition data center interconnect technologies such as 10GBASE-T and SFP+ 10GbE Direct Attach Cables will be demonstrated.

Ethernet Alliance SC09 Demonstration | Ethernet: THE Converged Nework

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Attendees at the Ethernet Alliance booth will be able to see equipment from multiple vendors that support a complex, yet realistic set of 10GbE application environments. This demonstration showcases solutions as well as providing high level education on the advancements, versatility and deployment of Ethernet technology.  Participating companies include: