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Hmm, that's interesting. We never did 25 and went to 40 and 100. Well, 10 for normal hosts, 40 for top of rack switches and heavy i/o hosts, and 100 and beyond
by nocarrier 10y ago
Hmm, that's interesting. We never did 25 and went to 40 and 100. Well, 10 for normal hosts, 40 for top of rack switches and heavy i/o hosts, and 100 and beyond for future TOR and aggregate switches.
- scurvy 10y agoIt's mainly cost savings due to the simplicity of 25gbps ethernet vs 40gbps. This article has a good run-down: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/25-Gigabit-Ethernet-Why-that-why-now-and-whats-next http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/25-Gigabit-Et...