/. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

Thu Sep 27 20:42:15 UTC 2012

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:58:09AM -0400, 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?
>
> Everything I've read sounds like a repeat of the same broken decision
> making that happened last time.
>
> That is unsurprising though, the same people are involved.

If the vendors are saying costs will be prohibitive, are you willing
to pay significantly more for the interfaces to make them do it
anyways?

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com