Keynotes

Summary form only given. The industry is undergoing a disruption to construct modern data centers and cloud designs. Denser server and storage, place demands on the networks to keep up with the bottlenecks. CPUs are faster, projecting to achieve 5 Ghz and CPUs are wider-with more cores. The advent of virtualization consolidates servers across workloads but also creates new challenges with network and virtual machine mobility. Traffic patterns between servers are shifting from northsouth to mostly east-west between servers demanding balanced performance. The next generation of switches mandates a system view of scale, latency, space and power. Arista Networks will discuss the new trends, design and technologies needed to build the next generation data center switch.