Force10 Networks Issues Statement Supporting IEEE Passing Its P802.3ba 40 And 100 Gigabit Ethernet Standard

Force10 Networks, a data center service provider, announced it has released a statement commending the IEEE and its Task Force for ratifying its P802.3ba standard for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). 

The ratification sets a needed standard as dynamic data center setting impose aggregating more traffic at 40 GbE and 100 GbE speeds. Employees of Force10 Networks played an important role to help begin the standard ratification process by indicating how, through a variety of Ethernet use cases, their customers believed there was a need for higher Ethernet speeds. 

We commend the IEEE for their efforts as the standardization of 40 and 100 GbE is a key step, from a bandwidth viewpoint, toward converging storage, compute and network wealth on to Ethernet technology, said Henry Wasik, president and CEO, Force10 Networks. The standard is a necessary yardstick and an important step from which clients can build low-latency solutions capable of handling network traffic well into the future. 

According to Force10, the consent of 40 GbE and 100 GbE is probable to help drive initiatives by data center managers and service providers to modernize its respective networks. Going forward, even as they task their network to perform greater, they want smaller amount network layers to manage and less uplinks required in the network since consolidated I/O will perform much better with increments of 40 GbE. These configurations can transfer from 4 x 10G uplinks and move to 2 x 40 GbE, doubling bandwidth while reducing port count by 50 percent.