new IEEE standard being finished up 40GbE and 100GbE

[Ganhyun]

So, after they finish showing this webinar today, it is supposed to be available on their website for viewing.  www.ixiacom.com is the website.

Its a pretty interesting webinar. They showed a chart/graph of a yahoo datacenter and man I wouldn't want to have to manage all that cabling. They also showed how the current limit of 10GbE for datacenter and core networks is one of the primary holdups of web growth. They showed a graph of data usage avg over core networks prior to youtube/xbox live/etc and then with such sites and the jump was enormous.  They already expect to have to make a Terabit Ethernet standard in the near future as well.

They even show a test of a draft of the standard with data sent. It's pretty cool.

[Eric P]

yeah all of this is neat, but as long as isp's start dancing towards restrictive bandwidth caps, this will essentially be worthless to most people

but yeah, data centers rule.  I love going to our CoLos.

[Ganhyun]

yeah all of this is neat, but as long as isp's start dancing towards restrictive bandwidth caps, this will essentially be worthless to most people

but yeah, data centers rule.  I love going to our CoLos.

true, but one of the reasons isps are edging to bandwidth caps is because of the dire need for this upgrade. If the core networks can go to 100 GbE and the mid-core, such as ATT, Qwest, etc, can go to 100GbE/40GbE, then that drives the cost of bandwidth down as there is more there available. It should also drive the cost of 1GbE and 10GbE hardware down for normal ISPs, many of which still use fastEthernet hardware (100MbE max).

But they forcast that by 2015 all major ISPs will be on 10GbE hardware and upgrading to 40/100GbE as the next standard they will work on 400GbE or 1TbE will be almost done.