The 2012 Chairperson of the Ethernet Alliance’s Marketing Committee, Chauncey Schwartz II, has enjoyed a successful career in sales, marketing, and business management for more than 25 years. Last year he was actively involved in the Ethernet Alliance’s Ethernet in the Data Center Subcommittee. While putting together webinars and other events for the subcommittee, Chauncey [...]

During the course of my career, I have had the fortune to be involved at various points in the development and deployment of a number of technologies.  Each one had its own particular challenges and rewards, and each stage was necessary in a given life cycle.  I have drawn personal satisfaction at each of these [...]

As the American scholar Albert Bartlett said, “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”  Bartlett was mainly referring to population growth, but the IT industry is seeing unbelievable, exponential bandwidth growth today.  While human populations are growing at about 1%/year, bandwidths are growing at tens of percent [...]

On March 6 Intel® launched the Xeon® E5-2600 family of processors, formerly code named Romley. This is big news for data centers and networking. All the server manufacturers big and small from A to Z will be shipping servers based on Romley. In other words, this platform will be the basis for computing for the [...]

Congratulations to the group of individuals, who were successful at the IEEE 802 March Plenary at getting the IEEE 802.3 Reduced Twisted Pair Gigabit Ethernet PHY Study Group formed.  This effort seeks to define a new Gigabit Ethernet standard for automotive networks that would operate on fewer than the 4 pairs of UTP cabling currently [...]

The Ethernet Alliance has a huge booth (724) at OFC/NFOEC from March 6-8th and we’re filling it with some great technology and exhibits.  The theme of the booth is “High Speed Ethernet: From the Cloud to the Data Center” and we’re showing the latest 10 Gigabit Etherent (10GbE), 40GbE and 100GbE technologies.  Here’s a sample [...]

John D’Ambrosia, Ethernet Alliance Chairman, Chief Ethernet Evangelist, CTO Office, Dell On June 13, 2002, IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002TM, otherwise known as the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) standard, was ratified. Shortly after the ratification of this standard, the industry saw a new generation of networking and the explosion of the Gigabit Ethernet market.  These networking technologies [...]

What points will you be discussing during your panel at the TEF? My talk will be primarily focused on things that have progressed from R&D and are quite real in the things we are doing today in our data centers. We are currently in the process of building a brand new data center that, to [...]

Todd Roth is Vice President of Technology for Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. As part of Harris’ Broadcast Communications group, he is responsible for incorporating and leveraging critical enabling technologies, including Ethernet. Q: What is, in your opinion, the biggest connectivity [...]

  The Ethernet Alliance is proud to bring a cadre of end users together at the upcoming End Users Speak! Technology Exploration Forum (TEF).  While past TEFs were mainly deep dives into emerging technologies, this TEF – the 5th – has a different perspective as it seeks to gather input regarding the needs from the [...]