Demand for high speed networking in data centers is growing rapidly driven by the massive shift to cloud services. 100G was in development for many years before there was widescale deployments in data centers. 400G was developed and deployed in hyperscale data centers relatively quickly and 800G will be deployed much quicker than many realize.
In this report, Heavy Reading examines the lessons from 400G deployments and how service providers can take advantage of the newest switches and 800G client optics to deliver ever higher bandwidths and network capacity in data centers.