Bridging the Ethernet-Ethernot Performance Gap

Ethernet seeks to reach the system-area-network performance of Ethernot networks by introducing 10-gigabit Ethernet and adding the hardware-offloaded protocol stacks that give Ethernots their performance edge. As this study shows, such moves might indeed be closing the gap. Recent developments could also empower Ethernet to penetrate the SAN arena, where it has struggled against the Ethernots´ serious performance advantage. Despite that, network providers have been reluctant to view it as a serious SAN interconnect because of Ethernets formidable performance lag relative to mainstream SAN technologies