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10 Terabit Ethernet By 2010

Posted by timothy on from the holy-patootie dept.

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).'"

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  1. What about latency? by Brahmastra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bandwidth is good, but what about latency? Ethernet has traditionally suffered from high latencies and doesn't work very well for High-Performance-Computing-Clusters. Myrinet and other ridiculously overpriced networking hardware works much better for clustering. I wish terabit ethernet does something about ethernet latency so that efficient clustering becomes a little cheaper.

  2. Salad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is that article actually supposed to be about? Seems like a scrambled mess of acronymic buzzwords with no actual content to me.

  3. LAN or Internet? by blixel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article is already slashdotted so I can't read it. So what is it refering to? 10Tb LAN speeds? If so - who cares? My existing 100Mb (200Mb switched full duplex) LAN is hardly the weakest link.