Re: [STDS-802-3-BWA] STDS-802-3-BWA] Meeting Announcement
Chris,
I agree that Facebook is very interested in 10Gb on servers, just not on all
of them. Web servers may never need 10Gb connections. As long as the Web
presents primarily text and low density pictures (i.e. small GIF files), Web
servers will never need more than 1Gb connections. The caching servers may
need 10Gb at some stage as data types get more dense (e.g. higher quality
pictures, video). Database servers may need 10Gb at some point. However,
Facebook is adding new applications that will demand 10Gb connections (e.g.
facial recognition servers, video conferencing servers) where a lot of dense
data types (much larger files) must be rapidly moved into and out of the
server. For these emerging applications, 10Gb is extremely important, and I
am sure Donn is very keen on making 10Gb connections within Facebook's data
centers both cheap and low power. Copper (e.g. 10GBASE-T) will take a while
before it can fit Donn's low power needs, but the combination of today's low
cost transceivers and Direct Access (Twinax) Cables will fit his needs well
in the short term.
Regards,
Kimball Brown
VP Sr Datacom Analyst
Lightcounting, LLC
(408) 799-3500 mobile
www.lightcounting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cole [mailto:chris.cole@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:46 PM
To: STDS-802-3-BWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-BWA] STDS-802-3-BWA] Meeting Announcement
Dear Ad Hoc Participants,
During the Ad Hoc meeting in July, there was a discussion about the extent
of high end data center migration of server I/O from 1G to 10G. An example
was brought up of Facebook keeping their server I/O at 1G and not migrating
to 10G for network architecture reasons.
I checked with Donn Lee at Facebook and he commented that this used to be
the case but is now old information, and that they do care about 10GE on
servers. This is consistent with comments from other high end data center
operators who are migrating their servers to 10GE I/O.
If anyone has additional information in this area, it would be helpful if it
could be shared since high end data center server I/O is an important
bandwidth driver.
Chris
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To: STDS-802-3-BWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [STDS-802-3-BWA] Meeting Announcement
From: "John D'Ambrosia" <jdambrosia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:00:53 -0700
Dear Ad Hoc Participants -
The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Ad hoc will be meeting the morning of
Thursday July 21 during the IEEE 802 Plenary being held in San Francisco,
CA, USA.
Registration and meeting details may be found at
http://ieee802.facetoface-events.com/session/70/page. You are strongly
encouraged to make your reservations as soon as possible. Early Web
Registration: Before 6PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), Friday, June 17, 2011
(UTC: 1am Saturday, June 18, 2011)
I look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco!
Best Regards,
John D'Ambrosia
Chair, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment Ad Hoc