Arista Networks 7500 named as the 2010 Best of Interop Grand Prize Winner!

LightCounting analysts covered the Interop 2010 trade show in Las Vegas on April 24-29, 2010. Most noteworthy was the palpable surge in popularity of 10Gbps Ethernet products for line cards, switch/router systems and servers. The buzz on the show floor was, "Customers stopped asking about 10G and started ordering it now, and every other card shipped has at least one 10GigE port on it". An identified change from last year was the significant shift from systems showing vast arrays of 1Gbps RJ-45 Ethernet ports to vast arrays of SFP+ ports (not 10GBase-T) as exhibited by nearly every system and line card-supplier. Switch chassis with 300-700 ports of SFP+ were on display capable of supporting Direct Attach copper and optical transceivers.

Many switch suppliers showed QSFP sockets for uplinks including a few showing 40-Gbps active optical cables. CXP interconnects were noticeably absent as the industry seems to be centering on QSFP format for cost reasons. Many line card suppliers stated that their SFP+ sockets were mostly being filled with optical transceivers or Direct Attach copper interfaces, which are used for very short reach.

August 3, 2011

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