Infiniband's Days Numbered

摘要

Brian Sparks, who co-chairs the IBTA working group along with Judd, says that the port cost for high-speed Ethernet currently makes it impracticable for many datacentres. The IB-TA's figures put 10Gbit/sec InfiniBand at $22 per Gbit/sec, compared with $85 per Gbit/sec for 10Gb/sec Ethernet. "We do not project 10GbE to become competitive until at least 2010," he says. Sparks also alludes to rumours of Cisco's forthcoming entry into the blade server market. "Cisco is doing things that make the server manufacturers do a double take. The likes of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and Sun are looking for a way to compete with Cisco's products, and see InfiniBand as a way to compete against Cisco, at a better cost," he says.