Dell’Oro Group – Return of the ‘Real’ InterOp—Campus Switching Brings the Excitement Back into

Historically, the InterOp trade show had its heritage in being a public demonstration of various vendors’ Ethernet switches working together.  In the days of old, you could see purple switches talking to dark grey switches talking to white switches, with some fanfare.  It was exciting as new speeds of Ethernet entered the market.  Over the past ten years, you would not have found such exhibits shown at the show.

But this week’s Interop show had an interesting twist, all found in a small booth.  The N-Base-T (2.5 / 5.0 Gbps Ethernet) alliance was a ‘plugfest’ with products and parts from Aquantia, Centec Networks, Cisco, CommScope, Freescale, Intel, Marvell, Microsemi, Tehuti Networks and Xilinx.  We found large spools of wire, lots of flashing lights and representatives from most of these companies, all demonstrating in a 15-foot wide booth, just large enough to hold up the N-Base-T banner. Read more.