Well, Cisco also makes the CRS-1, which they advertise as being able to handle up to 92Tbps. Of course, the fastest you can do over a single pair of fiber with this system is 40Gbps, which is an OC-768.
I just happen to work where the CRS-1 is built, and althou I can't go and start breaking NDA's. I can say that a system that is max configured for have a switching capasity of 92Tbps, spans across 72 linecard racks and 8 switch fabric racks (each rack being the size of a fridge), making the whole system seem more like a supercomputer rather than 1 gigantic router.
Promblem is most people arn't making web pages with a text editor anymore. Rather using some GUI driven web page builder like MS Frontpage, Adobe GoLive, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. With these you often don't have control over what tags get used where, and usualy the output is heavily optimized for one spacific browser (certanly true with Frontpage and IE)
And yes, people could go back and manualy edit the output and clean it up, but people are lazy and dont want to learn, hence why the bought the GUI driven stuff to begin with.
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Well, Cisco also makes the CRS-1, which they advertise as being able to handle up to 92Tbps. Of course, the fastest you can do over a single pair of fiber with this system is 40Gbps, which is an OC-768.
I just happen to work where the CRS-1 is built, and althou I can't go and start breaking NDA's. I can say that a system that is max configured for have a switching capasity of 92Tbps, spans across 72 linecard racks and 8 switch fabric racks (each rack being the size of a fridge), making the whole system seem more like a supercomputer rather than 1 gigantic router.
Promblem is most people arn't making web pages with a text editor anymore. Rather using some GUI driven web page builder like MS Frontpage, Adobe GoLive, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. With these you often don't have control over what tags get used where, and usualy the output is heavily optimized for one spacific browser (certanly true with Frontpage and IE)
And yes, people could go back and manualy edit the output and clean it up, but people are lazy and dont want to learn, hence why the bought the GUI driven stuff to begin with.