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The Road to 100 Gigabit Ethernet
darthcamaro writes "InternetNews is reporting that a grassroots effort is being formed to push 100 Gigabit Ethernet into the mainstream. That's 10x faster than the current fastest Ethernet standard 10 GbE and 1000 times faster than "FastEthernet" but it's not going to be here anytime soon. From the article: '"A group of companies have formed to approach the IEEE to get a vote within the IEEE body to start a standard and that's really where we are," Garrison told internetnews.com. [...] The process then to becoming a full standard is a long and drawn out one that could take five or more years. Garrison explained that the first part of the standard will look at technical and economic feasibility, as well as LAN and WAN opportunities.'"
This won't help anyone, what with the plans to throttle services.
All the talk about multi-tiered service and restricting/blocking content is heating up. Who will benefit from this? Only the few that can afford to shell out for premium services. Us little people will all end up with dial up grade service despite the fact that we COULD have better, provided we are willing to mortgage our homes and sell our souls for better speeds.
I hope the people drag the scumbag parasite profiteers out of their ivory towers and burn them at the stake.
Will we ever realize the full benefit of high speed Internet? Doubtful. It will be priced out of range of mortals..
...adding a fiber adapter to motherboards as standard? With the limitations that wire has, is a fiber connection directly on your motherboard, or as a cheap alternative add-on card, that far off?
Verizon already offers Fiber To The Home in some markets. Imagine a direct fiber connection to your PC.
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True. However, GigE is used a lot on backbone connections within LANs. So even though your client is only seeing a 100Mb port, the switch it's plugged into probably uses 1Gb on its uplink side.
I think the reason you don't see more 1Gb client ports, is because most network architects want to have the backbones be some multiple of the client-link speeds, and 10Gb connections are cost-prohibitive. And if you don't have the bandwidth on the backbone to carry the traffic (and if most of the traffic in your LAN isn't internal, which is a fair assumption to make in a lot of cases), why bother buying Gig switches?
The biggest thing most people would get out of some new, ultra-fast Ethernet, would be that their computer's connection might eventually become an order of magnitude or two lower than it. So if you have 100Gb ethernet available to use for backbones, then putting every client in a LAN on GigE becomes more feasible.
In a home or small-LAN situation, I'd like to see more GigE, because it provides enough bandwidth (theoretically) to do full-resolution screen-sharing in near-realtime. VNC and the like are fine on 10 or 100Mb for remote administration and even regular office tasks, but it's not a way I'd want to play any kind of game, or even use as my main desktop for very long. But at 1000Mb/s, you could (again, theoretically) send a 1024x768x24 bit screen down the wire at 50 refreshes per second, without compression. Now that, to me, spells possibilities. Too bad I'm too poor (and barred by lease from drilling holes in the walls) to put it into my place right now.
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