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Ethernet innovation pits power against speed
Achieving Ethernet speeds of a terabit per second and beyond means overcoming technical obstacles of optics, power and network architecture Credit: Dreamstime
While the move to 400G ethernet has so far been a largely hyperscaler and telco-network event, the ambition for those users, as well as data centre customers is ultimately to move to at least 800Gbps and possibly 1.6Tbps.
And while 800Gbps seems to be a solid goal for ethernet networking visionaries, the challenges such as the optics, power, and architecture required to make the next speed leap seem formidable.
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VMware APJ CTO Bruce Davie departs
Becomes the latest senior executive to leave virtualisation and cloud infrastructure vendor Credit: VMware
VMware Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) has seen another of its leadership team head for new horizons as Bruce Davie retires from the vendor.
Before its acquisition, Davie was a senior architect at Nicira, and prior to this was a Cisco Fellow, driving a variety of networking innovations.
According to his LinkedIn, Davie, who resides in Melbourne, has formed a new company named Systems Approach LLC, which will develop and publish open-source content related to computer networking.