Ethernet at 10 Gbps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 24, 2004 @05:00PM from the no-waiting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article talks about 10 Gigabit Ethernet and asks, 'But just how much data can a person consume?' Currently at work, we're working on a major project to re-architect our core application platform so that the different systems can be de-coupled and hosted separately. The legacy design implicitly relies on systems being in the same LAN due to bandwidth-expensive operations (e.g., database replication). Having this much bandwidth would change the way we design. What would you do with this much bandwidth?"

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Re:Way overkill by BusDriver · 2004-07-24 18:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Great post, all very true points.

However, I'd still mod you down. Juniper networks (layer3) and Extreme Networks (layer2) over that Cisco crap anyday! ;)

The company I work for is using GigE as a local metro area access method. Moving to 10gig will probably be one of the next things we do.
I can't see it being something normal users will ever need though, most people (by this I mean users) wouldn't notice if their network card was turned down to 10meg (as long as it was still full duplex)

Tim