HEPiX Technology Watch - Network sub working group

Mission

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

!HEPiX Technology Watch activity

Trends

• Network technologies evolution and its implications to HEP

Technology Watch

Traffic grow predictions

Monthly rates for previous years are on the wikipedia

Ethernet evolution

• Roadmap 2018
• Roadmap 2019

SDN and NFV

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)
    • Broadcom Tomohawk 4 hpcwire - nextplatform
• 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