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You dont really want to buy a 25W SoC and then blow a load more power on the networking. It might be expected you use 802.3ap.
by justincormack 13y ago
You dont really want to buy a 25W SoC and then blow a load more power on the networking. It might be expected you use 802.3ap.
- donavanm 13y agoI was thinking of solutions for 10s of gbs on todays x86 boxes. Dollars and power are both a budget, so it's all a tradeoff. WRT to the opteron A1100 yes, I could see your comment. Something like a box of A1100 blades plugging 802.3ap to a common backplane, a trident chip there, and then a bunch of (Q)SFP+ northbound. A couple hundred gbs for around 150 watts of networking. When I see A1100 I think an IO node with 10s of SATA disks attached. In that case Im only getting 10 or 20 per rack. A backplane makes less sense to me, running two DAC phys per box to a TOR I could see.