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Get ready for the winner for the next five years ....... 10GBaseT
I have been predicting based on the history of all previous variants of the slower "baseT" ethernets it looks like yet again that 10GBaseT is following a similar path for second generation 10GBaseT. e.g. towards becoming the cheapest just good enough technology for 10gbps networks, and hence the wining network technology.
This is not a product recommendation by me but see data sheet on this 10GBaseT product as a demonstration of the trends
http://www.plxtech.com/products/10gbase-t/tn8020 as you will see for for this second generation product:
http://www.plxtech.com/products/10gbase-t/tn8020 as you will see for for this second generation product:
- Power is 2.5 W/port @ 30m and 3.5 W/port @ 100m
Supports up to:
- 100m on CAT6A and CAT7 cable types
- 55m on CAT6 cable, already deployed in many data centres
- 45m on CAT5e, the most commonly installed UTP cable type
In addition to the above and now its becoming clear that in the next five years 10GBaseT will be the winner in data centres there is a rush on at the moment to effectively tunnel most of the storage and network technologies into 10GBaseT frames in the data centre. e.g. network convergence
See some predictions on exponential growth for 10GBaseT port shipments at http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4218136/10Gb-s-Ethernet-and... .......... as the growth predictions materialise in the next two years this will create some interesting surprises for many data centre owners and operators who have configured their cabling/network topology with to many levels and ethernet hops (core sw + aggregation sw +edge sw) and the unacceptable latencies that will result. What will they do with all that multimode fibre they have installed for 40gbps using parallel "SFP" type optics.
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