The rising scale of cloud computing, Big Data, and mega data centers has network administrators continually scrambling to recalibrate capacity requirements and balance those requirements with budget limitations. The traffic created by increasing numbers of tenants, applications, and services in data centers pushes the limits of standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) links. This challenge has led to the development of new Ethernet technologies, optimized to fine-tune network capacity to meet bandwidth demands of today and tomorrow...
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