Officially, the title is "Final Report for the 10 to 100 Gigabit/Second Networking Laboratory Directed Research and Development Project". Published in April 2001 and authored by Sandia employees from various groups: advanced networking, RF and opto microsystems, networked systems survivability and assurance. From the abstract: next major plateau is 10 Gbps. Distributed processing applications already require 10-100 Gbps. Visualization apps already require 1-10 Gbps. This project examined building blocks for a 10-100 Gbps network architecture: OS bypass, DWDM, IP switching and routing, optical amps, encryption, compression, ATM and OI forums, prototypes, ... Along the way, this 84-page report also highlights the current state of the art in high-performance long-haul networking for distributed applications. |