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Originally Posted by Kushan
That was a really interesting link and I read it all, but I'm still a little unconvinced. Their mean reasoning for 2.5G and 5G to exist is that wireless speeds have surpassed gigabit - and it's a worthy point. However, on the same slide they state this, they show that wireless speeds are going to go beyond 5Gbit in less than 2 years and faster still in 3 years.
It still seems like a bit of a pointless stop-gap between 10GbE? Then again, the cabling aspect is a worthy one and it's certainly better to be able to negotiate to 5Gbit if 10Gbit isn't possible on that particular cable. I suppose that's the real difference, having something inbetween for when your cabling isn't good enough. Still, it'd be nice if this just meant that devices started shipping with 10GbE capable ports that could just negotiate down, rather than trickling devices that do 2.5GbE and 5GbE. |
I'm not sure how seriously I can take an "Enterprise" vendor trumpeting 5Gbps cat videos as a use case for their technologies.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
10GBase-T has been around since 2006. If there were demand for it there would be more units produced and it would be more common.
You're complaining about 10GBase-T being an unnecessary incremental upgrade. I'm just pointing out that it is not. Something is needed to fill the gap as 10GBase-T hasn't come close to the levels of usage it was expected to originally.
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Probably because there's little benefit to it on edge devices partly because they never expected hard drives to be stuck at 50% more STR than they had 10 years ago. That, and the fact that it's not going to go anywhere
near a laptop or low-end home PC until it starts using less idle power than the whole PC.
On the other hand, I don't know a single datacentre core that
doesn't run on 10GbE already. Everywhere I know that actually
needs 10GbE has it, with many moving beyond.
Still, as I mentioned before I suspect the pricing and take-up may change significantly over the next couple of years thanks to certain very large, powerful companies bundling it into mass-market consumer gear at below-cost prices.
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Intel have been making 16 core CPUs, yes. How many people run applications that actually make use of 16 cores? I have a machine that has 16 cores, 2 x 8 core Xeon.
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And you call me a nutter for my 24-bay NAS with a single 4-core Xeon?
P.S. 22-core Broadwell-EP is due out in the next month or two.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
It's a lot pricier than it should be  |
Wanna guess how much one of these costs?
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/product...-2t/index.html