Daedaelus

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 chiplet modules in ultra-low-cost meshes, achieving extreme low latency by executing application actions at hardware speed in the network interface, and applying these techniques to distributed updates of persistent storage or to distributed, application-level transactions—push beyond the boundaries Ethernet established in an earlier era. These needs cannot be met simply by extending Ethernet’s historical capabilities.