What is old is new agian
Channel and Communication controllers were the basis of big iron mainframe architectures.
One cannot help but think that whoever decided to use the name "SNA" has both a good sense of humour and history.
InfiniBand and 10GbE break data centre gridlock
Data centre network pipes are getting choked up. Imagine Germany minus the autobahns or the US without interstate highways and you get the picture - cities trying to send goods and people by road to other cities and the single carriageway roads jamming up, consigning everybody to gridlock. What were quaint little cottage …
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In other words....
"Data centre network pipes are getting choked up. Imagine Germany minus the autobahns or the US without interstate highways and you get the picture - cities trying to send goods and people by road to other cities and the single carriageway roads jamming up, consigning everybody to gridlock."
Or in other words, "like the Uk motorway network on an average day"!
Mine is the one with the Cones Hotline flier in the pocket.
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