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Todo o mundo High-speed Ethernet is quickly becoming the networking norm as customer data-center servers grow to handle a ton of traffic from new, smarter applications, IoT devices, video and more.
According to IDC in the first quarter of 2018 overall 100Gb Ethernet revenue increased 83.8% year-over-year to $ 742.5 million and port shipments grew 117.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of this year. Researchers at Dell'Oro Group said they expect to see somewhere near 12 million 100G Ethernet ports ship this year compared to about 1 million 100G Ethernet ports shipped in 2016.
The need for increased data-center speeds is being driven by many things - the tremendous growth of hyperscale networks from players like Google, Amazon and Facebook, but also by the price / performance of 100G products, said Sameh Boujelbene, senior director at Dell ' Oro Group.
A recent study from PwC went a bit further in explaining how and why the network might need more speed. “Workloads are becoming less monolithic as companies branch away from the traditional enterprise data center. They are becoming more distributed, more mobile, and more like the workloads typically associated with hyperscale environments, ”PwC wrote. “… Almost all major workloads shifting from on-premises to public cloud in the next 1-3 years. Applications will be more tied to the network, and the network will become more critical given the distribution / dynamism of the workloads. ” | 