Rockport’s Torus prises open hyperscale network lockjaw costs

Hyperscalers rejoice; toroidal doughnut fabrics open the door to 10,000 node and beyond networking

Hyperscale IT is threatened by suicidally expensive networking costs. As node counts head into the thousands and tens of thousands, network infrastructure costs rocket upwards because a combination of individual node connections, network complexity, and bandwidth in a traditional (leaf-and-spine) design has a toxic effect on costs."