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Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link?

Posted by simoniker on from the zoomity-zoom dept.

FuzzyDaddy writes "My company is planning on demonstrating a 2.5 Gigabit per second link to some potential customers in the next few months. Now, we have all the equipment needed to measure how well the link is performing, but we'd like to put together a cheap 'Gee Whiz' demonstration. Surely other /.'ers have put together similar demos in the past. What combination of computers, network adapters, and software have you used to demonstrate high data rate links to potential customers?"

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  1. hmm by B3ryllium · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I once used a pringles can, 100M of string, and some bubblegum to send a Manchester-encoded bitstream at 5mbps ... ... I am batman!

  2. LoC by lockne · · Score: 0, Redundant
    we'd like to put together a cheap 'Gee Whiz' demonstration

    Just OCR and ZIP all of Library on Congress and send it down the wire.

  3. If you can't think of an use for the tech ... by PaschalNee · · Score: 3, Redundant

    ... how are you going to sell it?

    Seriously if this 2.5 Gigabit per second link has any real business application for these customers then you should have no trouble thinking up uses.

    I get that you asked for a gee-whiz type application but if the faster line is sooooo good surely then surely there's something in your potential customers business that will benefit from it. Nothing more gee-whiz than a solution to an exiting problem or a new oppurtunity for them.