Does TCP/IP have a future?

Posted by Roel Gloudemans on 29 September 2008 | 0 Comments

Tags: network, ethernet, IPv6, tcp, udp

Network Convergence is a hot topic nowadays. This is driven mostly by storage networking. The first products which can deliver Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) are starting to appear even now. There are a couple of drivers for developing Ethernet for storage networks:

• Ethernet development is ahead of Fibre Channel and Infiniband in terms of speed
  
• Common network layer simplifies infrastructure management
  
• Reduction in the number of network interfaces and thus initial hardware cost
  

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