in the end very little use of futurebus was attempted. the decade-long performance gap they gave the system had evaporated in the decade-long standards process, and conventional local bus systems like pci were close in performance terms. meanwhile, the vme ecosystem had evolved to such a degree that it continues to be used today, another decade on. custom implementations of the futurebus technology are currently used as backplane technologies for high-end network applications, enterprise class routers, high performance blade servers, and application with high demand-content such as video on demand.