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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. Re:As if 1000BaseT didn't suck enough CPU cycles by Enry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There was an article in the Linux Journal a few months ago (February issue I think) that talked about intelligent network cards. They had an onboard XScale CPU and its own OS and TCP/IP stack.

    What would happen is the OS (Linux) would get intercepted at the socket layer and pass the data to the network card. The card would then handle the process of building the packet and all the remaining layers of communication.

    This allowed for a high amount of main CPU time left over for actually doing processing while the network card CPU was focused on handling the TCP/IP packet work. IIRC, you could saturate a 1Gb line with data at only 5% main CPU usage.