[156809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Sep 27 10:48:13 2012
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:46:08 +0200
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@gmail.com>
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On 27/09/2012 14:58, Darius Jahandarie wrote:
> I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons
> as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the technology
> that actually ended up in most places. Could this be the same thing
> happening?
no. the IEEE working group was split between 40GE and 100GE and ended up
supporting both. As a result, the vendors ended up having to split time
and resources investigating both, which was to the huge detriment of the
industry. It's a good thing that they're deciding on a single spec, even
if it isn't as fast as some people might like.
Nick
