HP Servers Gain 10GB Ethernet Ally

By Doug Barney

NetXen, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA, has a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to provide NICs for HP’s entire line of BladeSystem servers. The potential ubiquity of 10GB could signal a shift in the entire networking market. For years enterprises simply made better use of the bandwidth they had. That’s why caching, QoS, load-balancing and traffic-management products were so popular. For many, smart bandwidth was a better deal than big bandwidth. But just about every technology advance — as long as it is not too disruptive — eventually wins us over. Inevitably, we will all have at least 64-bit processors and operating systems for our personal computing. And 10GB Ethernet over the long run will eventually win everywhere.

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