The rise of 400G in the data center

It is pretty amazing how fast datacenter hardware has had to innovate to keep up with customer demands and competition. It has not even been 10 years and the speed and capacity capability growth are amazing.

I would not be surprised to see in the next 5 to 10 years 10Gb fiber switches and cards as the regular entry level switch with 1Gb going the way of fast ethernet switches. Then on the high end 1Tbs or 5Tbs 54 port switches with 50Tb stacking interfaces on the backend as storage capacities keep going up per drive.