and I thought 10gb/s ethernet was fast...
This is some sexy tech... but so far beyond most web server, horizontally scalable services that it's not funny. I'm looking at your Netflix. Though I admit it would make a dandy backend for their storage servers.
Having worked in ASIC chip simulation support for the past 12+ years, it's nice to have a fast network, but even more important to have lots of RAM on your systems.
John