Merchant silicon gets Andy Bechtolsheim's vote as the technology for Ethernet switches. He writes that throughput and cost-performance factors make merchant silicon the winner, hands down. This is reflected in the fact that, according to him, most of the 10 Gigabyte (GB) switches manufactured in the current year are based on merchant silicon. Given the network scalability demands of contemporary datacenters, Bechtolsheim writes, only 10 GB Ethernet will do as the switch. He also comments on the features of Arista's 7050-64S and compares them to those of Cisco's Catalyst 6509, asserting that the features gap between the two is closing.
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Redundancy is sometimes the salvation of technology. Certainly in the case involving the supposed holdings of the Computer History Museum, without redundancy and YouTube, the "Sun Microsystems Founders Panel" (Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and moderator John Gage) would have vanished forever since the video disappeared mysteriously from the museum's web site during the confusion around the reorganization reflecting Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Now, in all their glory, the founding four, courtesy of YouTube, share their personal stories of the early days at Sun.
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Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim appears to have done it again with his new Arista 7500, a high speed switching device built with off-the-shelf components that is capable of using Ethernet in networking schemes. The Arista 7500 is designed to send data between thousands of servers for customers who demand extremely high computing performance, writes Don Clark in his WSJ blog "Bechtolsheim Thinks New Box Changes the Game Again."
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Darryl Taft with eWeek has assembled a slide presentation entitled "10 Reasons Why Sun is Still Relevant (an One Reason Why Not)". He states the questioning of Sun's relevance began when acquisition of the company started back in April with Oracle's proposed buyout. "But there are still a lot of factors that demonstrate how Sun's products and technology remain relevant and in demand in the IT industry," he writes. "This eWeek slide show illustrates why Sun still has a strong market influence."
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Andy Bechtolsheim's new firm, Arista Networks, is well positioned to capitalize on the burgeoning demand for 10GbE ethernet products that HPC users find essential to their operations. He told The Register's Timothy Prickett Morgan that "it is possible for some 25 percent of all servers in the installed base to have 10GbE ports by the year 2011." Said Bechtolsheim, "It is easier to forecast 10GE ports than revenues. This is one of the few areas in IT with predictable growth."
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