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10-Gigabit Ethernet Standard Approved

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-pr0n dept.

A little birdie brings news that that 802.3ae standard for 10 Gigabit/second Ethernet has been approved. Everyone out there with Gigabit Ethernet - you are now officially obsolete. The new standard is fiber only, no more of that nasty copper stuff.

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  1. Its not fair! by GnomeKing · · Score: 5, Funny

    *looks at his 14.4k modem*

    *looks at the article*

    *looks at his modem*

    *cries*

    1. Re:Its not fair! by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

      Upgrade to 56k, you cheap, whining bastard! ;-)

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  2. Oh the possibilities! by Yoda2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lynx will rock!!!

  3. What you can do with 10Gbps by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Time to...

    Download a typical 100K pr0n JPG: 0.00001 s
    Umm...
    Download a 650Mb ISO: 0.52 s
    Hm...
    Download 2 650Mb ISO's: 1.04 s
    Eeh?!
    Download 100 650Mb ISO's: 52 s
    Wow!
    Download 1000 650Mb ISO's: 8.7 min
    Jeez!
    Download an image of CowboyNeal: 12.31 hours
    Bah... Tech still need to catch up.

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  4. Re:With this annoucement by Hieronymus+Howard · · Score: 3, Funny

    10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody

    Just like 640K is enough for anybody.

    HH
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  5. Re:Why Bother ? by CausticPuppy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, physics won't allow you to use "unlimited bandwidth."

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  6. Slashdot Effect by WolfDeusEx · · Score: 4, Funny

    10Gigabit still woun't standand up to the slashdot effect

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  7. Re:In meaningful terms by glwtta · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the time honoured (and extremely relevant) measure of LoC/s has been officially replaced with HG/s (Human Genomes per second)? Mostly because it allowed for a lot more flexibility in making up figures that don't really tell you much, if I remember correctly.

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  8. Bandwidth bottleneck on motherboard - AGP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, now PCI is a bottleneck. Even 64bit PCI, quad-pumped, would still only support around 8Gb/sec... So I suggest that we repurpose the AGP port. We can go back to boring old PCI for the graphics card, so lets implement AGP network cards! Of course, it won't be the "Accelerated Graphics Port" anymore, it will be the... "Always Generous Pornography" "Accelerated Game Piracy" "Automatic Grits-to-Pants"

  9. What's so bad about copper? by Rorschach1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can strip copper wire with my teeth, and terminate it with a Leatherman tool. Until I can do that with fiber, my network's sticking to good old-fashioned electrons.