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I concur that it sucks that Ethernet is in a rut for some reason. But even on 10G that's no picnic. Sure, that works for a single user, but add a few more peop

I concur that it sucks that Ethernet is in a rut for some reason. But even on 10G that's no picnic. Sure, that works for a single user, but add a few more people and it's not hard to run into trouble. Such a system can't for instance just drop frames when the network is overloaded which to me makes this more of a curiosity than something anybody would actually want to use in practice.

jdsully 6y ago
10G switches are old hat and can do full x-bar switching at 10G, unless your using very old tech got off ebay you shouldn't have issues. Trunk lines of 100G and higher are pretty common in core networks now, if your big enough to span a single switch. The main limit was we had trouble doing 10G over cat-5e copper with long distances. 2.5/5 solve that problem and 10g is possible with cat-6. Fibre has no issue with super high rates for network backhauls to aggregate all that traffic. With the exception of the copper standards all of this has been roled out in the datacenter for years and is pretty mature.