ADC: We're Ready for 40/100 Gigabit

ADC (ADCT) issued a press release stating its support of the recently ratified IEEE 802.3ba standard for 40 and 100 Gigabit networks. In addition to fiber and copper cables, the vendor supplies optical distribution frames to data centers.

40 Gigabit InfiniBand is already selling, but many of those links are for short-reach copper interfaces. On the Ethernet side, many data centers are still upgrading from Gigabit to 10 Gigabit, so the standardization is more of a technical milestone than a major business development.