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The Road To Terabit Ethernet
stinkymountain writes "Pre-standard 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products — server network interface cards, switch uplinks and switches — are expected to hit the market later this year. Standards-compliant products are expected to ship in the second half of next year, not long after the expected June 2010 ratification of the 802.3ba standard. Despite the global economic slowdown, global revenue for 10G fixed Ethernet switches doubled in 2008, according to Infonetics. There is pent-up demand for 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, says John D'Ambrosia, chair of the 802.3ba task force in the IEEE and a senior research scientist at Force10 Networks. 'There are a number of people already who are using link aggregation to try and create pipes of that capacity,' he says. 'It's not the cleanest way to do things...(but) people already need that capacity.' D'Ambrosia says even though 40/100G Ethernet products haven't arrived yet, he's already thinking ahead to terabit Ethernet standards and products by 2015. 'We are going to see a call for a higher speed much sooner than we saw the call for this generation' of 10/40/100G Ethernet, he says."
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I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I mean at some point doesn't it become impossible to move electrons or modulate data any faster?
Nah, at that point you just place the whole ethernet infrastructure within a subspace field, modulate the deflector dish a little bit and you'll be off and running.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
News at 11.
+1 Insightful; until now I never truly understood why people wanted more bandwidth.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
All *we* had was an acoustic coupler. And an Ohio Scientfic. S-100 bus. 8k of memory IF you were looky. AND we read the bits as they came over the phone AND typed them in ourselves.
And you tell that to the kids today and they won't believe you. Bah. Spit.
Personally my home LAN is outgrowing GigE
Uhh... seriously, *WTF*. What do you have, a dozen teenage boys streaming HD porn 24 hours a day from a central server or something?
Ok, but I warn you, the size of the news letter increases exponentially every day.
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
The other day I had a small business for a client and was amazed to discover that they were running a significant network through a 10Mbps hub. Being able to upgrade that to a (rather affordable) Gigabit switch was quite satisfying.
...we'll be able to use our monthly bandwidth allowance in under one second. Hooray?
mmmm...forbidden donut
Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
Wait, what? There ARE TRON fanzines? Hummm I must get my Terabyte gear NOW!
Cloud computing.
Stop the brainwash
Warez, pr0n, and MP3's. That's all. Take those away and we might as well be using 300 bps modems.
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I thought The heading was "The Road to Terabithia" :)
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You first ;)
Didn't anyone else think 'Bridge to Terabit Ether'?
What a missed headline opportunity.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?