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IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 20, 2012 @07:04AM from the setting-the-bar dept.

New submitter h2okies writes "CNET's News.com reports that the IEEE will start today to form the new standards for Ethernet and data transfer. 'The standard, to be produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, will likely reach data-transfer speeds between 400 gigabits per second and 1 terabit per second. For comparison, that latter speed would be enough to copy 20 full-length Blu-ray movies in a second.' The IEEE also reports on how the speed needs of the internet continue to double every year. Of what consequence will this new standard be if the last mile is still stuck on beep & creep?"

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Hype! by fm6 · 2012-08-20 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Ethernet transfers never use more than a fraction of available bandwidth. So it's 2 blu-ray discs per second, 4 tops!
1. Re:Hype! by jeffmeden · 2012-08-20 08:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Unfortunately I have met several programmers who do exactly that. Usually recent refugees from homemade .csv land.
  Then they go on an epic bender of why SQL is not webscale and we need to use nosql solutions etc etc.
  I realize this sounds like a daily WTF post but I've also seen people implement sorting in the app instead of letting the DB do it. Madness.
  Why would I trust the lousy SQL server app to properly implement a superior bubble sort algorithm?
Wussies by Quiet_Desperation · 2012-08-20 07:22 · Score: 1, Funny

I will accept nothing less than 1 zillion bits per second.