Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

Tom Hill tom at ninjabadger.net
Thu Jan 28 13:05:32 UTC 2016


On 28/01/16 09:44, Jérôme Nicolle wrote:
> 
> Le 28/01/2016 01:51, Baldur Norddahl a écrit :
>> > Will we also get 2.5 Gbps fiber optics? SFP modules should support it?
> Why wouldn't you go straight to 10G ?

The 2.5/5G standards were born *entirely* on the rationale that someone
wanted to get more out of the existing Cat5/Cat5e installed in
buildings, so yes, you should go to 10G if you're on fibre. :)

-- 
Tom



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