Andrew Schmitt from Nyquist Capital has posted some
notes and observations [1]from the LightReading Ethernet Conference on Oct. 15-17. This includes a summary of the keynote from Level 3 (LVLT) senior VP Jeff Tench on trends in their Gigabit Ethernet business.
Andrew shares a number of interesting data points from the presentation. Here are a few highlights:
- Level3 has 500 active 10GbE ports today.
- Customers are approaching them looking for 10GbE hookups as they consolidate data centers into a single location to reduce costs.
- (Growth of edge connections) is driving a need for very large, cheap 10GbE switches with 64 to 512 10GbE ports. This was echoed by Equinix (EQIX) two days later at the Gilder Telecosm.
When a data center consolidation reduces the number of facilities, it concentrates more bandwidth-apps in a single location. For companies consolidating a network of data centers, a consolidation also can extend the geographic distance between data centers and create lag issues (as reported by the
Defense Contract Management Agency [2]). That’s where the bigger pipes come in handy. Read more at
Nyquist Capital [1].
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] notes and observations : http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2007/10/25/lightreading-ethernet-conference-notes/
[2] Defense Contract Management Agency: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Oct/16/data_center_consolidation_for_defense_unit.html
[3] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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