Focus on Fasternets: Speed Zone Ahead

摘要

It may be a cliche to say that everything in the networking industry is changing, but that doesn't mean the truism isn't true. Still, there's more going on here than the mere pondering of platitudes: I believe a fundamental shift has occurred in the forces driving the very structure of enterprise networks. Network designers have traditionally looked to the desktop as the main impetus for change: Higher-horsepower processors, more memory, deeper storage, faster block transfers between bus and CPU—you know the drill.