Applications and initiatives like private cloud computing, virtualization, and mobility are placing increasing pressure on network infrastructure to be faster and more capable. Initiatives like software defined networking and protocols like Openflow can make the network more flexible and manageable, but they don’t really solve the problem of application performance where high-speed, low-latency requirements are the rule. Only by removing hops and their attendant latency from the network will we continue to see performance gains. Arista’s 7124FX switch uniquely puts customer programmable FPGAs at the edge of the network for microsecond application processing.
Network Computing