Redefining Datacenter Connectivity With Open Source Networking
The Next Platform, Thursday, November 30,2023
The face of modern networking is changing dramatically in parallel with the exponential increase in the volume of data traffic over the last several years. Enterprises and cloud service providers alike are struggling to handle that transmission workload, whilst simultaneously trying to contain costs. It's a tall order to deliver enough capacity and minimize latency without breaking the bank.
According to a recent study from global market research and consulting firm TeleGeography, global internet bandwidth has risen 29 percent over the last four years. The research also found that the average and peak international internet traffic increased at a rate of 30 percent between 2018 and 2022.
'Modern infrastructure needs to support escalating network traffic and data intensive applications, which is crucial for emerging Generative AI use cases,' confirms Saurabh Kapoor, Director of Product Management and Strategy for networking solutions at Dell Technologies. 'The demand for higher bandwidth with open standards based infrastructure is greatly desired by networking users as it provides them more flexibility, choice, and freedom for vendor dependency.'