Reordering and Rethinking the Ethernet Roadmap

"Within a data center, there are two very important drivers: first, the speed at the access or server layer, and secondly, the need for conservation of pins on switching ASICs. Until early 2014, it was assumed that data center builders needing more server bandwidth than 10G allowed would jump to 40G," stated Dale Murray, Principal Analyst, LightCounting Market Research.