Evaluating ethernet as a system-level interconnect

Systems engineers are using established communications standards, to evaluate Ethernet as a system-level interconnect. The established standards also help in improving the performance and reduce costs by consolidating interconnect stages across a number of systems. The use of an established standard to evaluate the Ethernet also reduces protocol inefficiencies, leading to increased throughput and overall system performance. Ethernet has been adopted a system-level interconnect standard, as it is significantly flexible. Developers also need to introduce higher-layer protocols for improving performance and reduce inefficiencies of the Ethernet. Another significant ways of reducing interconnect complexity and cost is to consolidate the data plane and control plane onto a single system.