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Where's Our Terabit Ethernet?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-already-made-a-bandwidth-pr0n-joke-today dept.

carusoj writes "Five years ago, we were talking about using Terabit Ethernet in 2008. Those plans have been pushed back a bit, but Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe this week is starting to throw around a new date for Terabit Ethernet: 2015. He's also suggesting that this be done in a non-standard way, at least at first, saying it's an opportunity to "break loose from the stranglehold of standards and move into some fun new technologies.""

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  1. For those of you playing at home, a TB is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny



    For those of you playing at home, a TB is a lot more than you can ever use in a million years...unless you link off the pirate bay, then it's not quite enough.

  2. Re:Wednesday? by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, they just made an announcement that they reached 16Tbits/sec on Wednesday, sheesh. Use the bandwidth you have for something useful.

    Like porn?

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    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  3. Re:2015 by milsoRgen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, and I suppose we'll have flying cars by then too? And Windows will be smaller, faster and more stable!
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    I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
  4. Re:Wednesday? by milsoRgen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like porn? Pfff, 16Tbits/s of porn? Hardly. Only LOLcat pictures need that kind of bandwidth.
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    I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
  5. Re:but but but by plague3106 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The slashdot summary just about nailed it.

    So, are we at the start of the end times now?

  6. Re:Who needs it? by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

    One terrabit per second is roughly:

    81 lunabits per second.

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    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  7. Progress! by DragonWriter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Five years ago, we were talking about using Terabit Ethernet in 2008. Those plans have been pushed back a bit, but Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe this week is starting to throw around a new date for Terabit Ethernet: 2015.


    So, 5 years ago, Tb-E was 5 years away, and now its 7 years away. So by 2015, it should be about 10 years away, and by 2025 it should be about 14 years away, etc.