Server manufacturers have been quick to roll out new models designed to run on Intel’s new Xeon E5 family of processors, aka Romley, which touts an 80% performance improvement over earlier Xeon versions. As surely as the knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone, a boost in server performance is going demand a bigger network pipeline. Networking vendors and other industry experts think the introduction of Romley is going to be a significant catalyst for adoption of 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity to replace 1GbE switches running in networks today.
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