Potential participants include users and producers of systems and components for telecommunications carriers, Internet exchanges, financial markets, data centers, multiple system operators (MSOs) networking systems, high-performance computing, network storage and servers and other individuals interested in future IEEE 802.3 Ethernet wireline standards.
The company also presented data from a SNIA SSSI total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator showing that a high performance storagesystem using the 710 series SSDs would be considerably cheaper in terms of overall costs (including operating expenses) than a HDD array using high performance HDDs.