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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. Who needs it? by mollymoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    One terrabit per second is roughly:

    6 x as fast as 32-bit 2.8GHz HyperTransport
    16 x as fast as x16 PCIe 2.0
    60 x as fast as 20GFC fibre channel
    400 x as fast as SATA-300
    700 uncompressed 1080p HDTV streams (24bpp, 30fps)
    15 million telephone calls

    Other than the LHC, who the hells needs that kind of bandwidth?

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