WHITE PAPER page 1 of 3 Netronome Systems, Inc. HOW SERVER-BASED NETWORKING IMPACTS TCO In a modern data center, servers are accountable for nearly half of the costs associated with operating a data center. Other data center costs include infrastructure, power consumption and hardware networking (cabling, switches, patch panels, etc). As a result, optimizing on dimensions such Gb/s per dollar and/or PPS (packets per second) per dollar are critical. Another way operators are optimizing cost is by maximizing their data center utilization of resources at a given time. Idle resources are the worst use of data center spending and generally viewed as money going down the drain. The way operators are solving this problem is by introducing software-defined networking (SDN) into their enviro

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