Scaling to 100GbE: Drivers and implementation

摘要

The sustained high growth of Internet traffic has important scaling implications for IP backbone network capacity, individual core router size, router-to-router link bandwidth, and the optical transport networks used to carry this traffic across the WAN. A number of new applications in a variety of industry verticals are feeding the continued traffic growth in the core. Rapid consumer adoption of downloadable video content, facilitated by ultra-broadband access networks, is driving the need for higher speeds in carrier, cable multiple-system operator (MSO), and content delivery networks. And in enterprise networks and data centers, new trends such as file and storage virtualization, combined with new data sets like high-resolution imagery and video, require higher-speed interfaces.