I’ve been reading a presentation from Sharkfest 2012 where a engineers from Microsoft are presenting on their
Microsoft’s Demon – Datacenter Scale Distributed Ethernet Monitoring Appliance. The whole presentation is interesting but this particular slide caught my attention:
Merchant Silicon Evolution, 40GbE Arriving in 2015 & Impact on Data Centre Design
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Response: Intel SDK Update Boosts Data Center Switching Features
18th December 2012 by
Intel announces that their SDK for their premium merchant silicon FM6000 now supports VXLAN, EVB with VEPA and TRILL. This is faster than I expected to announce VXLAN and TRILL. In essence, these features are now vital for modern data centre switching. Assuming that vendors can rapidly integrate the SDK into their firmware OS, the [...]
