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Is There a Place for a $500 Ethernet Card?

Posted by timothy on from the yowza dept.

prostoalex writes "ComputerWorld magazine runs a story on Level 5 Networks, which emerged from the stealth startup status with its own brand of network cards and software called EtherFabric. The company claims they are reducing the load on the servers CPUs and improve the communications between the servers. And it's not vaporware: 'The EtherFabric software shipping Monday runs on the Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6, with support for Windows and Unix coming in the first half of next year. High volume pricing is $295 for a two-port, 1GB-per-port EtherFabric network interface card and software, while low volume quantities start from $495.'"

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  1. Is There a Place for a $500 Ethernet Card? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, there is a place for a $500 ethernet card, far, far away from this guy.

    1. Re:Is There a Place for a $500 Ethernet Card? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      pffft.... they don't have an ipod killer.
      They just lost my business.


      It's only funny if you see the site.

    2. Re:Is There a Place for a $500 Ethernet Card? by tcr · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ah, I see you have constructed a new EtherKiller.
      Your skills are complete.
      Indeed, you are powerful...

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      Information wants to be beer.
  2. yes there is a place for it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    right inside my computer :)

  3. Short answers: PHB's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Short answer;

    Where there are PHB's, there is overpriced hardware.

  4. Is there a place? by ChozCunningham · · Score: 3, Funny
    Only one place. Amongst gamers.

    "A $500 LAN Card? Oh my God, Stevie, thats almost as much as my GeForce9900XTLSI+ cost!" Said the kid with the Lone Gunmen T-Shirt.*

    "That's nothing, This 8-Track-ROM player off of ThinkGeekcost almost a cool grand" Stevie said, as the other nerds bowed around his glowing and chromed Frag Machine.

    *Lone Gunmen T-Shirts coming soon. 8-Track-ROM's, too.

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  5. Re:What good is such a fast Ethernet card... by cujo_1111 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you can't spell, you will fit right in...

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    If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
  6. Re:A rose by any other name... by Leers · · Score: 3, Funny

    "As lawyers at Level 3 begin salivating at thought of all of the potential lawsuits."

    Actually, salivation does not come till Level 8. However, at Level 3 you do get "Detect Potential Lawsuit." Don't worry, once you hit Level 3 you'll be a Level 8 in no time.

  7. Re:A look into the past by cymen · · Score: 2, Funny

    It won't just stop a linux router. It will stop other routers too.

  8. Re:30k is peanuts. spent over 10x that on 1 box. by B2382F29 · · Score: 2, Funny

    they were used to reduce the over-generation margin of the power companies

    By using up the excess power? :)

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