PODCAST · technology

Daedaelus

by Steve Kompolt

Ethernet has been the cornerstone of networking for over five decades,adapting to changing technologies, applications, and economic realities.New data center and edge opportunities—such as directly linking chipletmodules in ultra-low-cost meshes, achieving extreme low latency byexecuting application actions at hardware speed in the network interface,and applying these techniques to distributed updates of persistent storageor to distributed, application-level transactions—push beyond theboundaries Ethernet established in an earlier era. These needs cannot bemet simply by extending Ethernet’s historical capabilities.