10-Gigabit Ethernet Standard Approved

A little birdie brings news that that 802.3ae standard for 10 Gigabit/second Ethernet has been approved. Everyone out there with Gigabit Ethernet - you are now officially obsolete. The new standard is fiber only, no more of that nasty copper stuff.

Its not fair!

[GnomeKing]

*looks at his 14.4k modem*

*looks at the article*

*looks at his modem*

*cries*

Quite L0000ng

[Anonymous Coward]

And I'm just waiting for the new 10/100/1000/10000 NIC's to appear

...

iSpeed ... do you?
http://www.ispeed.com

I prefer copper

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi,
anyway, why use fiber, when you can have copper and squeeze it between doors, windows and everything that closes away the server's hum from a peaceful, quiet home? As far as I know, using fiber would be a *snap* between a door.
OK, having said this, 802.11 should rule. But too expensive. snif.

ineiti

Oh the possibilities!

[Yoda2]

Lynx [browser.org] will rock!!!

Mmmmm fiber

[Anonymous Coward]

Your network, brought to you by
Kellog special K. Make sure you get your fiber
every day.

What you can do with 10Gbps

[Jugalator]

Time to...

Download a typical 100K pr0n JPG: 0.00001 s
Umm...
Download a 650Mb ISO: 0.52 s
Hm...
Download 2 650Mb ISO's: 1.04 s
Eeh?!
Download 100 650Mb ISO's: 52 s
Wow!
Download 1000 650Mb ISO's: 8.7 min
Jeez!
Download an image of CowboyNeal: 12.31 hours
Bah... Tech still need to catch up.

No more copper-bandits

[.sig]

Maybe now those damn geeks will stop tearing the copper pipes out of old buildings to reuse as network cabling. Now its time to toughen security on our fiber!

Re:With this annoucement

[Hieronymus Howard]

10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody

Just like 640K is enough for anybody.

HH
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Re:Its not fair!

[Jugalator]

Upgrade to 56k, you cheap, whining bastard! ;-)

Re:Why Bother ?

[CausticPuppy]

Actually, physics won't allow you to use "unlimited bandwidth."

Slashdot Effect

[WolfDeusEx]

10Gigabit still woun't standand up to the slashdot effect

ah, the pleasures of a government job

[caveat]

that's the great thing about working at a national lab [bnl.gov] - in my office i have a gigabit network connection straight to the backbone (the advantages to being tech-savvy in a generally retarded department..."oh come on, the 100/1000 card is like $25 more than the 10/100...and it's not your money anyway"). wonder how long before they upgrade the network, those iso's take *forever* at 700KB/s...
yes, i know i'm not pushing my connection at all @ 700K, and i know 10-gig ethernet wouldn't make a rat's ass of a difference, but i like to gloat (/. on mozilla 1.0 takes, oh, 0.981 seconds to load and render)

Re:No more copper-bandits

[erpbridge]

Yup.... make sure to watch out for bandits trying to make off with Metamucil fiber supplements!

Re:In meaningful terms

[glwtta]

I thought the time honoured (and extremely relevant) measure of LoC/s has been officially replaced with HG/s (Human Genomes per second)? Mostly because it allowed for a lot more flexibility in making up figures that don't really tell you much, if I remember correctly.

Bandwidth bottleneck on motherboard - AGP?

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, now PCI is a bottleneck. Even 64bit PCI, quad-pumped, would still only support around 8Gb/sec... So I suggest that we repurpose the AGP port. We can go back to boring old PCI for the graphics card, so lets implement AGP network cards! Of course, it won't be the "Accelerated Graphics Port" anymore, it will be the... "Always Generous Pornography" "Accelerated Game Piracy" "Automatic Grits-to-Pants"

Re:not obsolete

[cheezedawg]

We're going to need something to replace PCI before we can use 10Gbit ethernet fully though.

Good point. We need something like 3GIO [intel.com]. Plus something has to be done about the bandwidth between the northbridge and the southbride. Right now it is at 266 MB/sec with plans to increase to 533 MB/sec.

Re:Slashdot Effect

[jdavidb]

Don't be too proud of this technical monstrosity you've constructed. The ability to transfer the Library of Congress in less than three hours is insignificant compared to the power of the slashdot effect.

Rats. It would have been funny if you hadn't gotten to it first. :)

What's so bad about copper?

[Rorschach1]

I can strip copper wire with my teeth, and terminate it with a Leatherman tool. Until I can do that with fiber, my network's sticking to good old-fashioned electrons.

1Gb obsolete?

[Gyorg_Lavode]

Man, now I'm really going to have to find what's pulling my network down to 10Mbps or I'll ever be able to face my friends.