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100G has been around for a while and not that common in usage, other than extreme cases. 10g and 40G are still the most widely used ports. Considering that most
by pavs 9y ago
100G has been around for a while and not that common in usage, other than extreme cases. 10g and 40G are still the most widely used ports. Considering that most switches and routers have a minimum 10-20 ports (10g-40g), that's already a stupendous amount of BW - and on routers, you can always add more cards. 100g routers/switches are very expensive.
Unless you are pushing google/facebook/Comcast level traffic - there are very few use cases. Apparently, Google/Facebook uses their own network hardware.
- rnxrx 9y agoThis isn't really true in the market today. 100G switches have emerged at roughly the same cost per port as 40G from a couple of years ago and, indeed, can often accept both 40 and 100 gig optics. Even at list price the cost per port for 100G switching has been under $1K for more than a year. As a result it's actually fairly common to find new DC fabrics (read: inter-switch connections, not end hosts) being built with 100G because there's no significant economic disadvantage to doing so. That said, the pricing for inter-site 100G is still high enough that it hasn't commonly made its way to smaller organizations.
- kingosticks 9y agoGoogle, Apple and Facebook also use commercial network products for the points in there networks where they need to go fast, just like everyone else.