"Traditionally, achieving all of these goals has
required an expensive combination of atomic commitment
and replication protocols – introducing extensive coordination
overhead. Our system, Eris, takes a different approach.
It moves a core piece of concurrency control functionality,
which we term multi-sequencing, into the datacenter network
itself. This network primitive takes on the responsibility for
consistently ordering transactions, and a new lightweight
transaction protocol ensures atomicity."
So, moving integrity and availability mechanisms to hardware in the middle is a proven method. They even did a proof of it. Good to see that kind of thinking is being applied to networking hardware. A tech like this might have most impact at companies like Google that own some of the lines they use. Might even be a value-added service for Tier 1's if we're lucky.
Code can be found on GitHub https://github.com/UWSysLab/Eris