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justincormack on Jan 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improving Linux networking performance

There was an attempt to do that with 2.5G, but it has been relegated to backplanes and was never formally standardised.

donavanm on Jan 23, 2015 [–]

The atom server boards released last year actually have 4x 2.5g lanes. As far as ive seen everyone just uses 4x 1g serdes on them instead of the hybrid 10.

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