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We never really got mass market 10GbE. The controllers were too expensive. The cable requirements were quite high. And heat was an issue. It's coming sooner th

• ssl-3 4mo ago
  Man, I sure hope so. The implementation timeline is slower than it was in prior evolutions. After stepping up in networks periodically (coax, then twisted pair with hubs, then 100mbps dual-speed switching hubs, then finally non-blocking 100mbps switches), I finally upgraded to gigabit ethernet at home because that had became cheap enough. That last upgrade was 18 years ago, in 2008, and by that point I wasn't even an close to an early-adopter. And now, 18 years hence: It seems absurd that the next 10x improvement is still not quite ready yet.