We suggested doing research on 1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s network cards. Well, don't do too much. It's very likely that the infrastructure department already has a standard server profile for high-bandwidth systems. This is primarily due to the fact that 10 Gb/s is a very complicated standard compared to 1 Gb/s or lower. There are several different cable types available along with complimentary network modules, one or more of which are probably already deployed in the data center.
Just make sure that the infrastructure knows to allocate high-bandwidth resources if our calculations call for it.
