QLogic: Ready to get excited about an Ethernet adapter?

Prepare to get excited about an adapter: QLogic’s multi-protocol FastLinQ 45000 Ethernet controllers use an ASIC with up to 100Gbit/s Ethernet speed, RDMA and NVMe over fabrics support to virtually abolish external storage array network latency and support network virtualisation. The ASIC’s CPU offloading and high speed …

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Estimated cost?

I know the old saying: "when you have to ask, you can't afford it..."

But for the rest of us, when articles are introducing new products, it would be nice to know a ball-park figure of cost. Is that too much to ask? I'm always curious to know what bleeding edge technology costs (and what a company thinks it's worth).

Is it: a) 1 banana, b) 2 bananas c) 5 bananas or d) a 2nd mortgage on your flat...

(FYI 1 banana = ~USD $1000, non-inflation adjusted, of course)

[Pavlov's obedient mutt]

Re: Estimated cost?

twelvty! bananas!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Estimated cost?

Nobody seems to have a price. Although, interestingly, everybody else, including QLogic, has a different picture. It's a board with a heatsink and fan, two CXP receptacles or similar, and a narrower PCIe connector.

[future research]

Re: Estimated cost?

1 banana for one of these

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/20/mellanox_infiniband_ethernet_isc

been around for 3 years so tested and available.

[Justin Clift]

Re: Estimated cost?

Also cheap on Ebay, so good for home labs. :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like this might be of interest to the boys at EMC's DSSD department with its NVMe capability.

[Mikey]

Awesome!

Yeah, I can't wait to get a couple of these babies when the availability of 100Gbit internet connections become the norm! And, given the timeframe of THAT happening, I have plenty of time to actually save up for them too... assuming I live to see the year 3000...

[Brian Miller]

"If I can't buy happiness..."

"Then I'll just have to rent it!" And I'm guessing that this adapter will be over $3000. Their 10Gb adapter is about $275, so for an order of magnitude more speed, the price will also be at least an order of magnitude more. Cutting, bleeding, spending edge.

[nilfs2]

It costs about tree fiddy

[John Sager]

Far too many acronyms

I think I know stuff about networking, but I would have to spend a couple of hours with Wikipedia to really understand this stuff. Could we please have a little bit more value-add in the explanatory department rather than just a regurgitated press release.

[Tom 13]

Re: Far too many acronyms

LOL! IIRC, YMMV but yes WTF?