What will be after 10G Ethernet?

The era of 10 Gb Ethernet per second is starting with a cost of 25% of the total 18 billion USD of Ethernet switching market share of 10G. What is next?

Although at a rate of 10 Gb / s it is now "oversized by the carpenter" for many people. But perhaps this is just a step in the development of speed, the future may be 40G / 100G or maybe a speed calculated in Terabit units, although there may be more stages of development. half.

Indeed, recently approved Ethernet 40 / 100G standards are emerging in the market. Extreme Networks, Force10 Networks and BLADE Network Technologies (makers of Internet access devices) all announced that they will support the new standard in their products.

Cisco, Juniper, Brocade and Alcatel-Lucent also started supporting the 100G Ethernet standard in their service routers. Verizon is working on using Juniper technology while AT & T has appreciated Cisco technology.

As for the support chip, Broadcom has announced devices for Ethernet 100G but it is still supported up to standard . Terabit. Fulcrum only announced the support of the 40G Ethernet standard at Supercomputing last November 16, they announced that it supports transmission of up to 1 billion packets per second or a full 72 10G Ethernet ports operating at speed. max.

And Intel also plans to include the 10GBase-T standard (an Ethernet standard launched in 2006 aimed at saving bandwidth and speed up costs) on its motherboards next year. This makes cheap 10G servers become popular, and boosts demand for 40 / 100G.

"People are talking about (40 / 100G Ethernet) as a future data center and they want to know about our plan , " said Bill Seifert, the company's technology director for solutions for Avaya data issues said. "In 2011, most CIOs will choose vendors for enterprise 10G switches. When bundling 10G data streams, 40 / 100G switches will be needed for data from rack to set. core switch. "

The fact that virtualization technology is increasingly widely used on servers everywhere also requires a faster network infrastructure.

Video transmission is one of the main causes of upgrading the transmission system. According to Juniper 2/3 of bandwidth traffic will be used by users to transmit videos and video-related services. According to Cisco, they said that 90% of Internet traffic will be used by users to transmit videos in 2014. Using a standard 100G transmission line will help download an HD movie in seconds and share the data. The science of terabytes will become easy between laboratories in the two hemispheres.

But these will not happen in the near future. Virtualization will push 10G to grow faster, but 40G will need to wait until the end of 2011, and grow in 2010, said Stephane Robineau, vice president of Alcatel-Lucent.

Extreme Networks says a 4-port 40G switch will cost $ 1,000 per port, not counting the optical part. With optical technology, the price per port will be 8000 USD.

With 100G, the price can be up to USD 100,000 to USD 800,000.