
• Network speeds saturated at
around 1Gbps
– Features provided were limited
– Commodity networks were not
considered scalable enough for very
large-scale systems
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Bottlenecks on Traditional Networks
Ethernet (1979 - ) 10 Mbit/sec
Fast Ethernet (1993 -) 100 Mbit/sec
Gigabit Ethernet (1995 -) 1000 Mbit /sec
ATM (1995 -) 155/622/1024 Mbit/sec
Myrinet (1993 -) 1 Gbit/sec
Fibre Channel (1994 -) 1 Gbit/sec
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