Open Compute and Facebook Announce Wedge 100 100Gbs Switch

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https://fossbytes.com/wedge-100-facebooks-latest-open-source-hardware-can-deliver-100g/

Facebook, et. al's open source Open Compute hardware project is delivering the spec for the Wedge 100 switch, an open switch that can 100Gb/s networking!

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http://www.networkworld.com/article/3132471/facebooks-100-gigabit-switch-design-is-out-in-the-open.html

Dashrender

Mark Stewart
There are a lot of companies where the corporate backplane is still running at 1 Gbps.

Well, most SMBs, if my thread is of any consequence, don't need more than 1 Gbps. But then he mentioned corporate, so perhaps he's trying to infer large businesses only?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Open Compute and Facebook Announce Wedge 100 100Gbs Switch:

Mark Stewart
There are a lot of companies where the corporate backplane is still running at 1 Gbps.

Well, most SMBs, if my thread is of any consequence, don't need more than 1 Gbps. But then he mentioned corporate, so perhaps he's trying to infer large businesses only?

The needs for speed is there even in a lot of SMBs. These days, saturating 10Gb/s isn't that hard. We use 10Gb/s at NTG for the corporate backplace which is often worth it when you have storage there.

StrongBad

These kinds of speeds would be great for implementing an iSCSI SAN or FCoE.