Virtual links push to unify nets

摘要

Startup Neterion Inc. today will roll out a chip that lets systems split one 10-Gbit Ethernet link into as many as 16 virtual connections. The effort marks the latest milestone in a long quest to deliver a Swiss Army knife of networking capabilities for the data center in a single slice of silicon. Virtualization is seen as the next hot feature for the servers that drive the Internet and back-end business computing. Ultimately, server makers hope to meld the technology with many others in chips that handle a combination of networking, storage and clustering jobs.