802.3ba aka 100Gb Ethernet

[DigeratiPrime]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.3ba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet

aka the EOL for Copper...

I thought this video was a good presentation of the standard

http://downloads.ixiacom.com/multimedia/EV...HSE_640x480.wmv

from http://www.ixiacom.com/solutions/higher_sp...sting/index.php

[CoffeeFiend]

For most purposes, good old Gigabit is still overkill (I just upgraded to a jumbo frame capable switch recently). 10 10GbE and beyond works great for backbones and such I'm sure, but I doubt we're about to see that in homes and SMEs anytime soon.

Newegg's only 10GbE NIC costs like $3000, a basic switch with a couple 10GbE ports will run you as much, and then you need some pretty fast drive arrays and servers to push data that fast... Sure, you could easily saturate it with several cheap servers/boxes if you tried (not with typical workloads).

[ripken204]

for nearly every purpose it is useless. i would like 2 have 2Gbit ports maybe, that would be useful for my fileserver.

[DigeratiPrime]

Well I was reading and I think you cannot use iSCSI with teamed adapters, and depending on how cheap they can pull this off it would make it competitive with FC (Fiber Channel). Plus upgrading an existing infrastructure would be easy. The only areas I can think where this is really useful is network storage and network video.

[cluberti]

Well I was reading and I think you cannot use iSCSI with teamed adapters, and depending on how cheap they can pull this off it would make it competitive with FC (Fiber Channel). Plus upgrading an existing infrastructure would be easy. The only areas I can think where this is really useful is network storage and network video.

You can, but only with current HBAs that support it (the switch must as well, although the HP ProCurve I'm using does this). iSCSI still can't hold a candle to fiber in high-volume environments, but in the home and SMB-type setups, it's more than adequate.