Wednesday April 06, 2005

Start the blitz

Well, it's been a busy few months putting the polish on our new Generic Lan Driver (GLDv3) framework, codenamed: Nemo. The code will be available to the general public through our Solaris Express program soon! As we get closer to release the team will go into more detail of some of the new features, but the big ticket items to look forward to are:

• Improved network performance
• VLAN support (802.1q)
• Trunking/Link Aggregation support (802.3ad)
• Lower cpu utilization for network traffic

We're also working on a demo for the Sun Labs Open House at the end of the month showcasing the technology behind Nemo. I don't believe it's open to the public but my understanding is that customers should talk to their Sun sales associate if they're interested. In either case, we should hopefully be able to talk about some of the performance results we achieve. Stay tuned..