10-Gigabit Ethernet Standard Approved

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.

Comments

With this annoucement

[SkyLeach]

It should be obvious that to burry copper is completely obsolete. Per yard, fiber should be cheaper to manufacture and bury.

10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody, so start building the infrastructure now and leave the telcos in the dust.

Will they do it? No. Why not? Because they think that they should bury the copper/fiber hybrid cable that they have been burying and come back and do it again later.

Burying cable is the most expensive part of telecomm.... retards.

Copper vs. Fiber

[jandrese]

IIRC the original Gig-E hardware (if not the original spec) was Fiber only as well. Eventually people started coming out with copper hardware to save on costs. In most cases, the only real advantages to fiber are the long cable runs and the immunity to interference in noisy EM environments (like your typical computer room). The downside is the cost.

Re:not obsolete

[monkeydo]

Please put down the CCNA study guide and back away slowly. Ever since the invention of switches most people haven't had to worry about collisions. We're talking about full duplex, 2 hosts on a collision domain. In other words no collisions. If you are getting collisions on GigE or switched FastE you are doing something very wrong.