Sun Neptune 10 Gigabit 10Gb Ethernet Network Bottleneck Solutions: Bye Bye Network Bottlenecks. Sun's new Project Neptune attacks the network bottleneck problem with the industry's first multithreaded 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for massive performance acceleration.

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Networking may well be the most important interface on today's computer and server systems. Yet, the explosive demand for increased network services has created major bottlenecks at the network interface. The rule of thumb is this – 1 gigabit of bandwidth requires a gigahertz processor. If you have a 10Gb Ethernet coming in, you need a 10 gigahertz CPU to perform that functionality. That's a lot of power and overhead to handle basic filtering.

Hal Stern, Sun's Vice President of Global Systems Engineering welcomes three distinguished guests to this edition of Innovating@Sun. Distinguished Engineers Shimon Muller, Erik Nordmark, and Ashley Saulsbury, join Stern for a lively technical discussion around Project Neptune and today's networking issues. Topics of discussion include:

• Project Neptune: the industry's first multithreaded 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology enabling massive acceleration in application and networking performance across X64, SPARC, and CMT architectures
• How fast is “fast?” (hint: Sun's Neptune technology has two 10Gb Ethernet ports that can also run at 1G speeds if necessary).