Due to the use of 10G cables networks and future

If you were looking for another evidence of the dramatic shift in data center design and the migration to 10G cables, read the recently published “New Data Center Cabling Requirements” document that was released few days ago by Mark Fabbi(Gartner ID Number: G00205239).This document, provides the physical cabling requirements for a growing (maybe I should write “big”) shift in network design.In the past I spoke and wrote about the impact of QSFP+ TO 4 SFP+ 10G cables migration on the security pie market as it requires network and application security practitioners to look for new solutions that are capable to handle and/or secure and/or protect and/or monitor and/or inspect 10G (and beyond) traffic.The design of the physical cabling infrastructure is affected by the migration from the current dominating school of end-of-row network architecture to the future top-of-rack switching architecture. Due to the use of 10G cables networks and future migration to 40G/100G, new data Category 7/7A TERA centers will require much less copper.Fabbi recommends enterprises using a top-of-rack architecture to use copper in the rack and OM3 or OM4 fiber to connect to the core data center network. In addition, new data centers should overprovision multimode fiber cable by a factor of 4x in anticipation of a migration to 40 Gigabit backbones.