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Vendor Unification Brings Innovation to Ethernet: Page 3 of 3

 

In both cases, the vendors have a proven track record of InfiniBand product development and end user deployments in environments that need low latency networks for high performance technical or business computing applications. The presence of these two vendors in the Ethernet market will cause traditional Ethernet vendors to ratchet up their investments and expertise in LLE if they want to compete for lucrative high performance computing business.

 

It's too early to tell if Fibre Channel and InfiniBand vendors can leverage the innovation they bring to Ethernet and sustain the competitive advantage needed to carve a place for themselves. But it's already crystal clear that end users are going to benefit from a fresh round of innovation and competition that network vendor unification is bringing.