Emulex joins 25Gb Ethernet Consortium

Emulex Corporation has joined the 25Gb Ethernet (25GbE) Consortium to drive industry standardisation. The 25GbE Consortium was formed by several networking technology companies to provide an industry-standard, interoperable Ethernet specification that will enable the cost-efficient scaling of network bandwidth delivered to server and storage endpoints in next generation cloud infrastructure.

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Emulex has worked with IEEE and other industry leaders to standardise 10GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE, and will participate in both the 25GbE Consortium and the IEEE Study Group and upcoming IEEE 802.3by Task Force for 25GbE with the goal of creating a single, cost effective and backward compatible standard for a single-lane 25GbE speed for server interconnects.


“The Ethernet community has thrived for more than 40 years due to open standards that provide a roadmap for the future and backward compatibility to protect existing investments. Now that 10GbE is more than 20 percent of currently shipping ports and growing at 19 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) through 2018, according to Crehan Research1, we must bring 25GbE to market in a way that doesn’t require forklift upgrades and ensures forward and backward compatibility between new 25GbE devices and the existing 10GbE installed base,” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing, Emulex. “We look forward to collaborating with the 25GbE Consortium members to develop interoperable solutions that increase the performance of data center networks and address the needs of the latest generation of Intel Xeon-based servers that demand more cost effective bandwidth while maintaining investment protection.”

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