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When will we see consumer devices rated at above 1gigabit?
by iwwr 15y ago
When will we see consumer devices rated at above 1gigabit?
- wmf 15y agoIt's hard to predict; 10G prices have plateaued or increased in recent years, so maybe the answer is never or maybe there will be a dramatic price drop some day.
- absconditus 15y agoWhy do consumers need such a thing?
- Groxx 15y agoThere are a few places you can get gigabit fiber, even excluding Google's offering.
- absconditus 15y agoHow does this explain the need for greater than gigabit networking?
- cpeterso 15y agoNetflix
- ghshephard 15y agoThis Summer: http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10549 http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10549
- tesseract 15y agoThat is not an ethernet device. Consumer devices have had non-ethernet interconnects faster than 1 Gbps for a while now. (eSATA, USB 3.0, lots of internal interconnects such as PCIe.)
- zdw 15y agoIt comes down to there being logical use case scenarios for it. Most computers can't write to disk at 1Gbit/s, and the power and related infrastructure (multiple PCIe lines) required for a 10Gbit Ethernet transceiver is higher than for a gigabit one. When some application comes along that is greatly improved by 10 gigabit networking (rather than point to point like Thunderbolt, USB3, or SATA), then we'll see it happen.