The evolution and future of Ethernet — is it the perfect predator?

Posted by on Apr 24, 2009

Sharks are so deadly and efficient that they’ve been called “the perfect predator.” That’s why I find it fascinating that they’ve been the top predator in the oceans for literally hundreds of millions of years, and haven’t changed much since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Why not? They didn’t need to! Their basic design was so good that it only needed tweaking to survive while...
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Honey, 10GigE shrunk the datacenter!

Posted by on Apr 24, 2009

With all the talk about speed and throughput, I think a lot of people look past the most concrete and immediate benefit of 10GigE: more compact, less costly data centers. Simply put, if each wire can carry 10x the data, you need 1/10 as many wires to connect all your servers and storage devices. The ratio isn’t precise, and it doesn’t extend to network equipment where devices have 24, 48 or...
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10GigE; What will fill the pipes?

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009

It seems to me that every time a new generation of high-capacity networking technology makes its debut, there’s an accompanying list of applications ready to use up all that bandwidth. It’s taken for granted that applications will always find new and creative ways to use up all the available bandwidth. I’ve been disappointed, however, with the list of interesting use cases for 10GigE....
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Will you and 10GigE live happily ever after?

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009

Over the past few decades we’ve seen network technology evolve from 10 Mbit Ethernet to 10 Gbit, with 40 GigE on the horizon and 100 GigE already being discussed. Is the network outpacing the capabilities of the computer? In many ways, yes. One of the dirty little secrets of today’s operating systems is that even in multi-CPU hosts all the interrupts from the network have to be processed on a...
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What exactly is a "message per second"?

Posted by on Apr 22, 2009

In the high-speed messaging world, performance is measured in some number of messages per second. We’ve had some questions via the website and in customer meetings asking us to clarify how we count msgs/sec at Solace. There are two key numbers on the website: 130,000 msgs/sec and 10 million msgs/sec. For full context on what they mean, read on. On the surface, it seems pretty simple. If I...
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You think you've got multicast storms now? Just wait for 10 GigE!

Posted by on Apr 22, 2009

Back in the early days of market data systems, 10 MbE networks were the standard. Multicast from the publisher to the subscriber was a clever way to optimize bandwidth to trading desks, because there just wasn’t enough bandwidth to send the data repetitively to each trader. The emergence of 100 MB and 1 GigE networks resolved some of the bandwidth issues, but the delivery bottlenecks just...
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10GigE enables world's fastest real world market data benchmarks

Posted by on Apr 21, 2009

In Nov 2008, we released a set of benchmarks for ultra-low latency market data distribution. The tests, run on an all-hardware architecture consisting of 1 GigE technology from Solace, Arista and NetEffect, showed the fastest real-world messaging benchmark performance ever seen — until today. In conjunction with the launch of the new 10 GigE version of our Network Acceleration Blade, we...
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Liftoff for 10 GigE content networks

Posted by on Apr 21, 2009

We kick off 10 GigE week with a product announcement. Today Solace announced a new 10 GigE Network Acceleration Blade (NAB), along with some new 10 GigE messaging benchmarks conducted with our partners Arista and NetEffect. As a recap, the Solace 3260 content router is a high-speed content routing chassis that houses a different set of hardware blades depending on the type of messaging or...
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Brace yourself: It's 10 GigE week!

Posted by on Apr 20, 2009

Each summer, the Discovery Channel dedicates a week of programming to Sharks, with the now infamous “Shark Week” celebrating all things Shark. Here at Solace, we decided that this week will be “10 GigE Week,” celebrating the emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. We’ve blogged about 10 GigE before, but never to the level of depth we will this week. So if you’re into...
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