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10 Terabit Ethernet By 2010
Eric Frost writes "From Directions Magazine: 'Because it is now impossible to sell networking unless it is called Ethernet (regardless of the actual protocols used), it is likely that 1 Terabit Ethernet and even 10 Terabit Ethernet (using 100 wavelengths used by 100 gigabit per second transmitter / receiver pairs) may soon be announced. Only a protocol name change is needed. And the name change is merely the acknowledgment that Ethernet protocols can tunnel through other protocols (and vice versa).'"
Tethernet?
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Imagine how much pr0n....er....um...I mean valuable business data you could get with this!
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
Gigabit ethernet, and 10 gigabit ethernet both have it in their specs to accomodate 100 ethernet and 10 ethernet. Therefore 10 Tb ethernet will be called 10000000/1000000/100000/10000/1000/100/10Base T for the OTHER technologies included. The chip will be bigger unless its fancy FPGAing with the FPGA code downloaded from the driver.
So to sell it as Ethernet they have to make it compatible as such. Or to make things cheaper, they will have to settle on a different name to sell cheaper 10Tb cards only. Cheaper 10Tb cards will sell more than compatible ones.
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My prediction for the year 2010... I'll still be on a 56k modem. :-(
Adidas To Bring Back Sneakernet
People/institutions with large storage arrays.
Lan parties are, in a lot of ways, hindered by bandwidth. We have a monthly thing in town here that is pushing the limits of the 100mb switches and GE backbone.
Watching multiple streams of HDTV video from the media server in your basement.
Networking processors from different workstations to provide a little more processing power.
And most importantly.
Haptic porn.
...to prevent the Slashdot Effect?
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I am an EE major and when I was going to university in the late 80s early 90s everybody was going on how fiber was the future and that we'd run out of capacity on copper RealSoonNow: who'd have thought about 10TERABIT ethernet back then! (heck, I was happy as a clam when my lab upgraded from coax to baseT so the jokers couldn't bring down my box by unscrewing their terminators...)
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Cheers,
-- RLJ
and then the aimbots and see-through-wall hacks become even more effective, as they can track every single player in the screen at all times.
:) Try to see-through that!
To solve the cheating problem "once and for all", you can render the picture on the server and just send that 1024x768 bitmap 60 times per second.
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(B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
Yeah, and I'm still behind 10mb/s in my office. Huzzah!
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Perhaps there will be 10 megapixel displays by then ;)