Importance of 100 GbE: Live Demo over a WAN

At Supercomputing 2011 in Seattle Brocade continued a long-standing and successful tradition of engaging with the international community in high performance computing, networking and storage. Brocade's participation at this show promotes education through innovations created here and now in high performance computing. Brocade collaborated with research network innovators from Indiana University and Internet2 to demonstrate 100 Gigabit Ethernet transport over a wide area network spanning from Indianapolis to Chicago to Seattle. This marks one of the first live demonstrations of this magnitude and opens up the world to a wealth of life changing innovation. At the heart of this advanced network is the Brocade MLXe router, it's designed to establish the industry benchmarks for performance, scalability and investment protection for performance driven organizations. When installed in the Brocade MLXe routers, the new 100 GbE blades enable high performance computing networks to deploy the industry's first Terabit-per-second trunk, which utilizes multiple ports in a single logical link for greater bandwidth and reduced management. To put this in perspective, this technology can support the streaming of a half-million high-definition video streams over a single managed connection -- serving the equivalent of all San Jose, Calif. households -- and delivers more than twice the operational efficiency of competitive offerings.

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Science & Technology

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• Supercomputing 2010
• Phil O'Reilly
• Brocade
• 100 Gbe
• Indiana University