The goal is millions of transactions in real time. Not an easy feat without a new class of networking gear and new architectures. It is changing and challenging traditional constructs for High Frequency Trading (HFT) markets. It creates an insatiable appetite to shave every n...
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The race to zero latency in Cloud Networking
February 1st, 2010Is 2010 the Year of 10Gig?
January 6th, 2010As 2010 begins and we celebrate the onset of the next new decade, I would like to wish my readers a happy new year and also pose a question asked many times before.
Will 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) reach the inflection point in the datacenter this year?
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Evolution of Switching Architectures in Cloud Networking
December 3rd, 2009As we wrap up this year, I do sense that the architectural shift in the datacenter environments has begun to change traditional constructs. As I said at the beginning of the year in January 2009, two tiered cloud transformation was one of my new-year resolutions and I predicte...
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Scalable Techniques for Multi-terabit Cloud Networking
November 2nd, 2009Current data center network designs are very compromised. They are based on blocking multi-tier designs with 50:1 over-subscription using the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) to prevent loops and enable device redundancy. Link Aggregation, LAG, was introduced to distribute network...
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