Facebook And Accton

This partnership doesn't offer big, immediate sales opportunities for solution providers, but it does provide a glimpse into what could be the future of networking. To grow its core social media business, Facebook needs to keep more people connected to its services at the lowest possible cost. The company has started designing and providing networking technology and collaboration tools to the enterprise with the launch of a new 100-gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Wedge 100 switch, its Workplace collaboration product and its newly-formed Partner Program. Does it mean that Facebook is the next HPE? No, but it does provide a clue that the connections inside and between data centers are speeding up and the price of the infrastructure providing those connections is falling fast. Providing connections and collaboration, not hardware or technology for its own sake, seems to be an enduring trend.