2550100 ALLIANCE

Program Overview

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2550100 Select Alliance Members as of August 1, 2015

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Market Dynamics

1Gbs

10Gbs

100Gbs

1Tbs

10Tbs

100Tbs

100Mbs

10Mbs

“I Felt a Great Disturbance in the Force” 1Pbs

25Gbs

50Gbs

Ethernet Speed Trajectory

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Disruptive Innovation Driven by Hyperscale CSPs

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Performance that customers can utilize or absorb

Disruptive Innovations

Sustaining Innovations

10G

40G

25G

50G

100G

25G Economics

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25G Technology 64 half-width servers 64 x 25Gb server ports 64 x 25Gb ToR switch ports 1.6Tb available bandwidth

10G Technology 64 half-width servers

128 x 10Gb server ports 128 x 10Gb ToR switch ports

1.2Tb available bandwidth

Quanta X300 Cloud Rack System

50% less server port cost and power 50% less ToR switch port cost and power

33% more bandwidth

Fastest Time-to-Million Ports Forecast for 25G

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2550100G Growth Forecast

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Sequential Revenue Growth 2014E 2015E 2016E 2017E 2018E 2019E

25 Gbps Ethernet GA 325% 547% 107%

50 Gbps Ethernet GA 895% 58%

100 Gbps Ethernet GA 1095% 5155% 308% 60% 32%

Source: IDC

How We Go to Market Together

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Early Access

Vendor Qualification

IT Evaluation IT Deployment

Vendor Solutions

Education

Educate other vendor, channel

partners and IT pros

Servers, Storage, NICs and Switches

IT evaluations.

Products in labs of IHVs, ISVs and

channel partners.

Tested, supported and listed.

Alliance & channel partners ready for

co-marketing.

IT deployments.

Create awareness of technical and business benefits of 25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet

Implement Efficiently for Faster Time-to-Sales

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Time-to-2 Million Ports

2016 2015 2014 2017

Education

25G

Early Access

25G

Solutions Dev Community

25G

End User POCs

25G

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2550100 ALLIANCE

A vehicle for faster time-to-sales

• The Way Data Centers are Wired is About to Change

• Driven by hyperscale cloud providers, general availability of 2550100G Ethernet will begin end of 2015

• The compelling economics of 2550100G Ethernet will drive a major network refresh in the enterprise too

• 2550100 Alliance

• The goal is to accelerate the readiness of vendors, channel partners and IT pros

• Complementary to the 25G Consortium and Ethernet Alliance

• Focused on getting products into labs, solutions developed, and providing field education about solutions

• Join Now

• Membership is free

• Simply send an email to alliancemembership@2550100.com with the following: “I am authorized by <company name> to enroll <company name> as a member of the 2550100 Alliance with the understanding there are no fees, and <company name> can withdraw its membership at any time.”

Executive Summary

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1. Contribute and attend technical training from other partners

2. Contribute and receive alerts about product availability, technical topics, and

company news

3. Contribute to and use www.2550100.com portal with contact info, product listings

and collateral from multiple 2550100G vendors

4. Contribute to and use early access programs offered by members

5. Participate in Solution test festivals allowing testing with multiple applications

running on 25G networks at a single event

6. Participate in co-marketing programs to educate channel partners and IT pros

Programs for 2550100 Alliance Partners

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Picking Up Where Industry Organizations Leave Off

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ABOUT THE 25G/50G CONSORTIUM The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium is an open organization to all third parties who wish to participate as members to enable the transmission of Ethernet frames at 25

or 50 Gigabit per second (Gbps) and to promote the standardization and improvement of the interfaces for

applicable products. The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium enables industry

participants to develop new technologies that function in accordance with the

Specification(s) outlined in the consortium agreement in order to benefit consumers

and the industry by facilitating accelerated adoption of 25 and/or 50 Gbps

technologies.

ABOUT THE 2550100 ALLIANCE The 2550100 Initiative is a set of programs

designed to: 1) Assist hardware and software vendors with early access to 2550100 networking products, and to work together efficiently to develop

solutions; 2) Assist channel partners with online and hands-on training, and with

early access to 2550100 networking products, so they may guide their

customers through the migration; and 3) Assist IT professionals with education, hands-on training and early access to

2550100 networking products needed to evaluate and deploy the new technology.

Standards & Specifications Go-to-Market

Vendor Neutral Web Portal

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Technical & Marketing Contacts

Product Listing

Company Listing

On-line Education

Events

Videos Presentations White Papers

by the members, for the members

The Ethernet Ecosystem Refresh Starts in 2015

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4 x 25 2 x 50 1 x 100

2550100 Switches

2550100 Block

2550100 File

2550100 Object

2 x 25

It’s a no-brainer • If you are going to support 25G in your server, storage, networking or software product,

this is the easiest way to work with your ecosystem partners

• You will be first in line for early access to 2550100G adapters and switches for your labs

• You will automatically be notified by alliance partners when products are available and

receive technical alerts about product changes

• You can contribute and/or receive technical training

• You can contribute to the www. 2550100.com portal with contact, product and availability

information from multiple 2550100G vendors

• You can participate in solution test festivals with other alliance vendors to efficiently do

testing with multiple vendors

• You can participate in co-marketing programs to educate channel partners and IT pros

Why join

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Join Now

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Membership is free

Simply send an email to alliancemembership@2550100.com

with the following:

“I am authorized by <company name> to enroll <company name> as a member of the 2550100 Alliance with the understanding there are no fees,

and <company name> can withdraw its membership at any time.” We will send you a “Welcome” email as confirmation.

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