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10Gbit to the Home by 2010
womby writes "Nihon Keizai Shinbun report (Japanese) that NTT, Fujitsu and the Japanese Government are forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010.
'The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010.' A complete Translation is here, if my blog gets beaten into the ground try the Coral Cache Link."
'The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010.' A complete Translation is here, if my blog gets beaten into the ground try the Coral Cache Link."
As for bus throughput, SATA is 150 MB/sec, PCI in its various forms ranges from 133 MB/sec to 533 MB/sec. PCI-X is about 1GB/sec, and PCI Express finally breaks the 1.2 GB/sec barrier if you use the 8x or 16x variety.
Of course, if you gave the NIC a Hypertransport bus link directly to the CPU, you could also do this now. But Hypertransport is definitely cutting edge for home users. I wouldn't call it "easy".
Given hard drive limitations, you'd better be streaming all that data into RAM, or you'll never keep up. :)
There will never be a time when slashdotters will give up on urban legends about Bill Gates saying X something will always be enough for everyone.
Give it up, please.
Eh? That's not true at all.
Linux Distros are the same size today as they were 6 years ago. 1-2 main CDs for the main installation along w/ supplemental apps CDs which don't really count.
Most desktop apps like Office are still only 1 CD (600-700 megs). XP Home/Pro... 1 CD. Win2k3 1 CD.
Warcraft 3 - 1 CD. Doom 3 - 3 CDs. Riven (1997) - 5 CDs.
There hasn't been any increase whatsoever in the size of warez/apps/porn/whatever. The only thing has has changed has been the introduction to downloading DVD media like PS2 games or movies. Even still those only take a few hours to download on a 4Mbps connection.
We're talking 10Gbit in another 6 years. I highly doubt most apps will even double in size.. and even if they did, a common 2-5 CDs is nothing on a fast connection like that.
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No, there wasn't. But I do remember the day when I purchased my first box of ten 5.25" floppy disks. Ten of them, when I'd been using one for an entire semester. My $DEITY, I thought - I'll never need all this.
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The minimum possible latency when chatting or gaming with someone on the opposite side of the planet will always be greater than 133ms (40000km circumference / 300000 km/s speed of light *1000ms/s).
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