Their press release regarding today’s announcement of the finalized 1.0 specification is at:

https://ultraethernet.org/ultra-ethernet-consortium-uec-laun...

Their noteworthy features list is:

> Modern RDMA for Ethernet and IP – Supporting intelligent, low-latency transport for high-throughput environments.

> Open Standards and Interoperability – Avoids vendor lock-in while accelerating ecosystem-wide innovation.

> End-to-End Scalability – From routing and provisioning to operations and testing, UEC scales to millions of endpoints.

Skimming this, it looks like it's trying compete with Infiniband, but combining it with plain Ethernet?

So how long before hardware is available that supports this spec? Would the kit likely be cheaper than infiniband (or even ROCE) equivalents?

While currently it seems like the only (?) InfiniBand vendor is Nvida/Mellanox, there used to be more folks selling the gear. For example Intel used to sell switches (had some for an Isilon backend):

* https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/ne... (PDF)

Officially there are a bunch of folks in the IB alliance:

* https://www.infinibandta.org/member-listing/

This is cool, but I am more curious about what happens to all the cat 6a cabling in offices, where do we go after 10GBASE-T

Ethernet but for AI!