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IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard
An anonymous reader writes "EEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba, a new standard governing 40Gbps and 100Gbps Ethernet operations. An amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the first standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds, paves the way for the next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching. The new standard will act as the catalyst needed for unlocking innovation across the greater Ethernet ecosystem. IEEE 802.3ba is expected to trigger further expansion of the 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet family of technologies by driving new development efforts, as well as providing new aggregation speeds that will enable 10Gbps Ethernet network deployments."
I just finally upgraded all of the connections in my house to Gigabit Ethernet, you fucking clod you!
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Yes, but the porn was low-res and slow to download. So it's a double-edged sword.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I've been waiting to connect to my 8M Cable modem with 100GE for a while now. Finally, no more bottleneck!
Unfortunately there is no corresponding 100000Base-MrT
The MTU is still 1500 bytes though :(
In 10 minutes I can down load some porn, whack off, and be a sleep in 10 minutes. In those days it was hours just to get a 5 second clip.
Hmm. I could write that the above is an example of how user contributions on a site like Slashdot can offer recommendations to the average reader that are both informative and practical. On the other hand, I could write something to the effect that what you wrote provides more information than most of us asked for, or want.
I suspect both of those are too subtle, so I'll tailor my response to the wider Slashdot demographic:
"Ten minutes!??? You need to find better porn!"
For end users, 100gb/s is almost 'enough'. It's just a hair short (about 2.5x) of the speed needed to stream uncompressed video at the highest resolution anyone is likely to seriously consider, at 240hz. Once you hit that point, you just remote your applications to wherever the data is, and forget about moving data ever again, assuming, of course, that the data is close enough to you to avoid any latency issues for interactivity.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Yes, but the porn was low-res and slow to download. So it's a double-edged sword.
Still, I think you're underrating the merits of the slow reveal... I mean, as the image file was loaded byte by byte onto the computer's memory, filling the display with that lustworthy graphical data, gradually revealing more and more, until you had a naked woman on your screen in 320x200 glory, 1bpp plus 4 bit colors, foreground and background, per 8x8 character cell... The five minute wait for the elusive delights to be laid plain was like a striptease...
And when I say 5-minute wait, that's how long it took to load an image from disk. Modem would take longer. :)
Bow-ties are cool.
No, Overrated wasn't what I had in mind, either....