Ethernet Alliance - November 2011 Newsletter

ETHERNET ALLIANCE LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

Fresh New Look for EthernetAlliance.org! The Ethernet Alliance today lifted the curtain on its newly redesigned website. Cleaner and more streamlined, the new site offers a broad array of improvements and upgrades, such as more intuitive navigation. In addition to the sleek redesign, site visitors will find a host of valuable news and information, videos, and rich insight delivered by industry innovators and experts. Visit the new Ethernet Alliance website today at www.ethernetalliance.org.

Higher Speed Ethernet Technical Chair Nominations

The Higher Speed Ethernet Subcommittee is looking for a Technical Chair to work alongside our current Marketing Chair, ea logo Dave Schneider. We have received interest from Dan Dove of Applied Micro to fill this role and wanted to open this opportunity up to the membership. If there are others who have interest in taking on the role of Technical Chair, please email Ethernet Alliance Administration at admin@ethernetalliance.org with the following by EOD Friday, November 18th :

Name/Company
Bio
Statement of support from your management

All bios will be circulated to the HSE subcommittee prior to their next call which will be occurring the week of November 28th. If there are any questions please contact admin@ethernetalliance.org.

SAVE THE DATE! "The End Users Speak" Technology Exploration Forum

The Ethernet Alliance will host its next Technology Exploration Forum (TEF), The End User Speaks, to be held Thursday, February 16, 2012. This Forum will give the end-user community the opportunity to voice their needs for Ethernet in their network architectures & applications. These opinions will fuel the TEF Logo

discussions of the day as the Ethernet industry gathers to hold a lively discussion regarding the future direction & evolution of Ethernet.

Potential areas of discussion include:

Ethernet in Future Data Centers
Ethernet and the Heart of the Internet
The Role of Power in Networks
The impact of "Content" on Server Connectivity or "Broadcast's Bandwidth Demands"
The IEEE and Ethernet's Future
And more

The TEF will bring together experts in the Ethernet industry to discuss and explore these areas. In addition to the Ethernet Alliance's own broad membership, which includes end users, system and component vendors, this event will also be open to non-Ethernet Alliance members. Together, participants will provide a broad set of backgrounds to enable lively discussion.

If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact admin@ethernetalliance.org for more information.

We look forward to seeing you there!

UPDATE FROM SC11

Ethernet Alliance kicked off the first day of SC11 exhibition with four live interoperability demonstrations by thirteen member companies. Thank you to Amphenol, Aquantia, Chelsio, Cisco,

Dell Force10, Intel, Mellanox, NetLogic, Panduit, QLogic, Siemon, Spirent and Volex for a great show start!

If you're in Seattle, please stop by our booth on the 6th floor, #5101and check out our latest Ethernet technologies such as Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol (iWARP), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), 40 Gigabit Ethernet, and 10GBASE-T.

ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT

Ethernet Technology Summit
February 21-23, 2012
Doubletree by Hilton
San Jose, CA

The Ethernet Technology Summit focuses on the use of Ethernet throughout the networking space. This includes the emergence of 10-Gigabit Ethernet as a key LAN technology on the desktop and in data centers. It also covers the ongoing standardization effort for 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet. It also includes the use of Ethernet as a carrier backbone and transport method, as well as in wireless, industrial, embedded, and storage applications. To meet carrier needs, the Ethernet ecosystem must include quality-of-service guarantees, management tools (so-called operations, administration, and management or OAM), performance analysis, high availability, scalability, security, and service-level agreements. Other topics of interest include low power systems, power-over-Ethernet, Ethernet as a home networking technology, backplane Ethernet, and embedded Ethernet.

Ethernet Alliance members are being offered discounted passes if they would like to attend this event. To obtain the discount code, please email admin@ethernetalliance.org.

In This Issue

Upcoming EA Interoperability Events

Upcoming EA Events

In the News

Social Networks

UPCOMING EA INTEROPERABILITY EVENTS

40Gb Modular Interfaces Plugfest

March 26, 2012

UNH-IOL

UPCOMING EA EVENTS

SC11

Booth #5101
November 10-14, 2011
Washington State Convention Center
Seattle, WA