Welcome to the HEPIX/TechwatchNetwork web

HEPiX Technology Watch - Network sub working group

Mission

• follow technology trends
• analyze implications for HEP
• foreseen possible shortcoming

This sub-WG is part of the !HEPiX Technology Watch activity

Trends

• Network technologies evolution and its implications to HEP

Technology Watch

Traffic grow predictions

For Geant, see e.g. slide x in this presentation
Cisco prediction 2022 PDF

Monthly rates for previous years are on the wikipedia

Ethernet evolution

Roadmap 2018

SDN and NFV

Has own HEPiX working group, meetings are listed in indico

Hardware

NICs

short summary with longer explanation here

and so on

• • switches
  • routers
  • white boxes and their OSs
  • DWDM
  • Network Chips
    • Silicon photonics (e.g. Intel)
• Security
  • Firewalls
  • Deep packet inspection boxes (FPGAs)

Sources

• https://www.lightwaveonline.com/index.html
• https://ethernetalliance.org/
• https://www.nextplatform.com/category/connect/
• https://www.lightreading.com/
• https://www.itworld.com/category/networking/
• https://www.ptc.org/

Documents

• Documents and other material is attached to this page

Produced material

• Presentations at conferences
• Working material can be stored on the CERN box project hepix-techwatch-network (not public)

Meetings

• HEPiX Techwatch Indico