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.'"

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Pointless

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There isn't really much point, very few internet connections are going to be over 10mbit/s let alone 1000gbit/s. The only application this is really going to have is transferring huge files, and even then, hard disks arn't fast enough to saturate the network bandwidth.