Intel expects 10Gbit Ethernet to kick off in 2011
 

DURING THE INTEL Storage Solution Forums yesterday, the company was keen to point out that from next year we'll see widespread adoption of 10Gbit Ethernet in the server environment. The main reason for this coming uptake in 10Gbit Ethernet according to Intel is that it will launch a transceiver that will be implemented on server motherboards, rather than needing an add-on card.

Intel started with showing a graph of the uptake of Gigabit Ethernet and how it ramped up to 10 million ports within the first year and a half from the introduction of onboard controllers. Intel is expecting to see a similar ramp up once it launches its 10Gbit controller next year. A study by IDC suggests that by 2015 half of all Ethernet ports on servers will use 10Gbit Ethernet, although as always we'd take these kinds of predictions with a pinch of salt.

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