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Recommendations
HiperSockets is an excellent choice if you need to communicate across servers
running in multiple LPARs in a single processor.
These servers can communicate at memory speeds, bypassing all the network
overhead and delays. With HiperSockets, a maximum frame size can be defined
according to the traffic characteristics for each of the HiperSockets LANs. By
contrast, LANs such as Ethernet and token ring have a maximum frame size
determined by their architecture.
Because there is no server-to-server traffic outside the zSeries CEC, a much
higher level of network availability, security, simplicity, performance, and cost
effectiveness is achieved as compared with servers communicating across a
LAN. ...