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What is 10GbE?

Ethernet is an open standard technology that has been around for over 30 years, continually evolving to become the dominant

choice for wiring homes and enterprises around the world. Today, more than 85 percent of all installed network connections and

more than 95 percent of all LANs are Ethernet-based.

The 10GbE specification was ratified by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) organisation in 2002 as IEEE

Std 802.3ae-2002 and whilst remaining fully backward compatible with 1GbE, it offers significant advancements, such as:

■ A ten-fold increase in bandwidth with data transmission speeds of up to 10 billion bits per second compared to 1GbE’s 1 billion

bits per second

■ Operates only in full-duplex mode as opposed to 1GbE’s half-duplex mode, which provides faster, lower-latency responses to

network transmissions (latency, being the idling time wasted by one component waiting for a response from another)

■ Designed to operate not only over local area networks (LAN) but also wide area networks (WAN).

10GbE adoption has now begun to accelerate, due to its cost-effective performance, proven flexibility, and wide applicability.

What are the market drivers and applications for 10GbE?

■ As Ethernet is an open standard, vendors such as BLADE Network Technologies, Chelsio and Qlogic are able to offer Ethernet-

compatible products with the features needed by customers at an af fordable price

■ Increased processing power with the adoption of multi-core processor-based server platforms has driven the need for greater

network bandwidth and more efficient processing of network traffic

■ Rapid growth in IP (Internet Protocol) traffic, with the increasing popularity of voice over IP (VOIP) and video on demand (VOD)

real-time applications has created a demand for high bandwidth, low-latency networks with predictable performance

■ The ever-increasing popularity of virtualisation means server resources are now fully utilised leading to increased network

traffic and so the need for more bandwidth to alleviate I/O (input/output) networking bottlenecks in data centres■ The requirements for data centres to reduce power consumption and reduce operational costs are also driving customers

towards converged networks. FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) allows the transmission of Fibre Channel protocols over

10GbE enabling networking and storage convergence, providing cost savings in initial hardware purchase, power and

manageability

■ Limited bandwidth and the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) processing overhead have limited the adoption of iSCSI

(Internet Small Computer System Interface) storage area networks. But now, iSCSI has a bright future, with multi-core

processor platforms delivering the performance required to handle terabytes of storage and 10GbE providing much needed

throughput

■ 10GbE meets network requirements for bandwidth-intensive applications, offers loss-less capabilities for storage devices, and

low-latency needed for High Performance Computing (HPC) in research and commercial environments.

What is the growing market opportunity for 10GbE?

The need to converge networking, storage and HPC in the data centre and the relentless rapid growth in IP traffic and its

popularity for carrying voice, data and video continue to drive the demand for greater network bandwidth. The need for high

performing converged networks has driven a market that will become a $2B total addressable market (TAM) in 2010.

Employing 10GbE to implement a single network fabric (comparison of a large computer network to a ‘weave’ or ‘fabric’) simplifies

network management and reduces components compared to current solutions like InfiniBand and Fibre Channel. With the

introduction of 40GbE and 100GbE over the next few years, analysts have projected the combined, worldwide sales of 10G, 40G,

and 100G ports on networking equipment to be strong over the next 5 years, with enterprises and service providers expected to

spend an accumulative $105 billion between 2008 and 2013.




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10GbE solution

In many cases today, different switching fabrics are being used for data centre networking, storage networks and high

performance computing. With a dif ferent type of technology being used for each, requiring its own tools and expertise to manage;

such as Fibre Channel for storage, InfiniBand for High Performance Computing, and Ethernet and 10Gb Ethernet for data

networking.

By using 10GbE as the single I/O fabric connecting servers, one can significantly reduce the amount of equipment and

respectively reduce the cost of operation by using less power, taking less space and easier/simpler administration.

Components of a 10GbE solution

The main components of a 10GbE solution are Host Bus Adaptors (HBA), that connect a host system (computer) to other networkand storage devices. Switches, the computer networking devices that connect the various network segments (logical divisions,

such as accounts, sales, research and development, etc,), and cables providing the physical links.

Host Bus Adapter (HBA)

10GbE HBAs from companies such as Chelsio support the iSCSI protocol, enabling them to support storage area networks

(SAN), as well as HPC, network-attached storage (NAS) and local area network (LAN) environments. So they can be used as

a single interconnect in any server, leading to the convergence of these heterogeneous environments into a single,

common network.

High-performance adapters, such as Chelsio’s T3 Unified Wire Adapters and QLogic’s Intelligent Ethernet Adapters also provide

TCP/IP protocol offload. By removing this processor intensive task from the host CPU it frees up processing cycles, significantly

improving the throughput of servers, server appliances, and storage platforms.

Switches

10GbE switches provide lossless, low latency, low power and low cost interconnectivity. Switches such as, BLADE Network

Technologies new VMreadyTM & SmartConnectTM RackSwitches family extends virtualisation by mirroring the benefits of server

virtualisation within the network. Save energy through rack-friendly cooling and alleviate management pain by removing

complexity through a simplified BLADEHarmony™ Manager.

Example of parallel networks for dif ferent purposes Example of a 10Gb Ethernet Storage Converged Network




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Cables

Like previous versions of Ethernet, 10GbE supports both copper and fibre cabling. There are five IEEE standards of copper

cabling such as 10GBASE-CX4 and 10GBASE-T for use in different applications and over varying distances up to 300 metres.

Seven optical or fibre standards of which there are two classifications based on distance, single-mode (SMF) and multi-mode

(MMF). For example,10GBASE-LX4 operates both modes with a reach of 300m in MMF and 10km in SMF, whilst 10GBASE-ER

only operates in SMF up to 40 kilometres.

What we offer

Avnet Technology Solutions, as industry-recognised specialists in storage products and one of the world’s largest storage-centric

value-added distributors offers unrivalled experience in the Storage market. Avnet is highlighting 10GbE with a comprehensive

line card, having identified the fastest growth segment within networking as a critical offering for their resellers.

Leading the list are innovators, such as BLADE Network Technologies, Chelsio Communications, QLogic and Emulex.

BLADE Network Technologies is the leading supplier of Gigabit and 10GbE network infrastructure solutions for blade serversand ‘scale-out’ server and storage racks. BLADE’s top-of-rack RackSwitchTM Ethernet networking family, with SmartConnectTM

and VMreadyTM management and virtualisation software, offers a 10GbE, low-latency, low power, and costeffective solution for

the most demanding data centre needs, from HPC to cloud computing and video on demand. The industry’s first green

networking product, RackSwitchTM, uses less power than two light bulbs and is uniquely designed to meet the needs of the

dynamic data centre, affordably and efficiently – allowing for virtual, cooler, easier data centre networking.

Chelsio Communications leads the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-

performance and proven ‘Unified Wire’ technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio offers

10GbE adapter cards, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing applications.

Chelsio’s unique offloading technology has been shown to deliver the highest performance for many applications, including

accelerating storage, such as iSCSI, NFS and CIFS. This acceleration in conjunction with Chelsio’s iSCSI Initiator/Target, Unified

Storage Server (USS) and Unified Storage Router (USR) provides customers with a complete high performance, feature rich

storage solution.

Emulex provides leading converged networking solutions for the data centre, it’s LightPulse LP21000 family of Converged

Network Adapters (CNAs) are intelligent multi-protocol adapters that provide host LAN and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity over

10Gb/s Ethernet using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Enhanced Ethernet functionality. Unrivalled scalability and

industry leading virtualisation support make the singleport Emulex LP21000 and dual-port LP21002 CNAs ideal solutions for

server I/O consolidation. Leveraging eight generations of advanced, field-proven Fibre Channel technology, the PCI Express-

based LP21000 family meets the robust interoperability and reliability requirements of corporate data centres.

QLogic is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs.

QLogic’s 10GbE Intelligent Ethernet adapters work in conjunction with new features in the latest vir tualisation operating

systems to break through I/O bottlenecks and boost virtual machine performance to meet the needs of virtualised data

centre environments.

Implementing NetQueue technology to eliminate queuing bottlenecks, freeing up processor resources to support heavier weight

applications on the vir tual machine (VM) or more VMs per server and supporting advanced virtualisation features such as

VMotion®. This combination of capabilities provides customers with a high performance virtual networking solution.

The products from these companies and those of other leading vendors such as, Myricom, Intel and Fujitsu enable us to provide

flexible, high-bandwidth, low latency, low power and low cost 10GbE solutions for your customers.




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How to Sell

10GbE allows scalable computing and storage systems to be linked by a high performance, low cost fabric. This presents a

compelling story to solve the enterprise’s needs for storage capacity, application performance, reduced cost by network

convergence and long distance connectivity. These capabilities also enable computing and storage resource to be deployed

efficiently to provide high availability and business continuity.

When looking to sell 10GbE solutions we must first target the correct markets that will be growth areas and can easily see

the benefits of 10GbE deployment. Currently there are 4 main applications & market sectors that that will see the benefit of

10GbE solutions.

HPC (High Performance Computing)

The benefit of 10GbE in HPC environments is two fold, firstly the additional bandwidth provides the performance required in HPC

environments and secondly it allows the use of a common dependable network access method to connect their servers.

High performance clusters are used for a variety of applications that require any form of simulation or Finite Element Analysis

(FEA) such as biosciences, geosciences, mechanical design, defense, imaging and financial modeling. In short any field that

requires intense, powerful compute processing capabilities.

From an interconnect perspective there are 3 main considerations that 10GbE delivers for a cluster to effectively serve

these applications.

■ High throughput

■ Low latency

■ Scalability.

Questions to ask

■ Are you running any high performance applications that require server clustering?

■ What network technology are you using for you high performance computing?

■ Are you using 1GbE for you high performance computing?

■ What are the main performance requirements for you high performance computing applications, high throughput/bandwidth,

low latency or scalability?

Finance

In financial markets, market data applications must deliver information at ever-increasing rates and with minimal latency.

Customers relying on market data feeds need timely and quick access to market data information so they can perform trading

calculations and execute trades. A delay of even a few microseconds can have a huge negative impact on a financial trading firm.

Applications run by financial firms require large scale server deployments with multi-core CPUs, more memory and low latency

means of transporting data across their network. Currently 1GbE networks are reaching their limits of bandwidth maintainability

and latency. When you also consider that these companies are deploying virtualisation and storage consolidation then the need

for a sustainable high performance network is greater. Scaling to 10GbE is a natural evolution for 1GbE networks and doesn’t

require expertise in deployment and maintaining separate network fabrics.

Questions to ask

■ Are there any bandwidth or latency needs that are paramount to your company’s success?

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How important is quick delivery of market data to your business?■ Do you find your existing network suffers from bottlenecks/bandwidth issues?




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Storage Networking & Data Centre Consolidation

Network consolidation or convergence contributes to an increasing need for storage consolidation. Currently large organisations

may deploy or have deployed various network technologies depending on the nature of applications they are running, each

network technology will have a unique architecture and require a dedicated management team. By deploying 10GbE as a

common interconnect you can achieve greater storage consolidation into one pool of storage that was once managed by

multiple technologies.

The growth of iSCSI on 1GbE networks, introduction and ratification of FCoE as an accepted standard and the ability of 10GbE

to provide enhanced performance of HPC applications has meant that one common interconnect is achievable in the form

of 10GbE. This is further endorsed by the release of new Converged Network Adapters (CNA’s) from Emulex and QLogic

which allow standard Ethernet, Fibre Channel and iSCSI traffic to be managed via a single HBA. This means companies now

have the ability to bring their entire infrastructure under one technology with one management team, reducing costs and

improving productivity.

Questions to ask

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What are your storage needs?■ What is your storage strategy?

■ Are you deploying any iSCSI solutions?

■ Will you be looking at network convergence/storage consolidation in the near future?

■ Will you be looking to deploy FCoE in the near future?

Virtualisation

In the past enterprise data centre environments have fully adopted the scale-out model server deployment model. As a result,

IT managers have seen their data centres expand from hundreds to thousands of servers running different operating systems,

applications and multiple storage technologies. As the number of servers and storage systems has grown, so have operational

costs, which include people, space, power and cooling.

In response, IT organisations are now shifting to virtual environments using products such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Vmware ESX

and DataCore’s SANmelody or SANsymphony, to change static data centre resources into agile, shared computing assets.

Virtualisation solutions can dramatically increase performance levels, maximise return on investment, and allow enterprises to

rapidly deploy and scale IT resource on demand.

Along with a drive to converge network technologies over 10GbE interconnect, 10GbE is an obvious choice for unifying network,

clustering and storage communications for emerging vitualised data centre environments. 10GbE provides both the bandwidth

and low latency required to guarantee the performance levels needed in a virtual environment.

Questions to ask

■ What network infrastructure are you running in your vir tual environment?

■ What types of applications are you using on your virtual machines?

■ Do you suffer from any bottlenecks/bandwidth issues when deploying virtual machines?

■ Are you having issues providing redundancy within your vir tual environments?



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