IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard

New submitter h2okies writes "CNET's News.com reports that the IEEE will start today to form the new standards for Ethernet and data transfer. 'The standard, to be produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, will likely reach data-transfer speeds between 400 gigabits per second and 1 terabit per second. For comparison, that latter speed would be enough to copy 20 full-length Blu-ray movies in a second.' The IEEE also reports on how the speed needs of the internet continue to double every year. Of what consequence will this new standard be if the last mile is still stuck on beep & creep?"

Re:Hype!

[keltor]

AC is 100% correct provided we're dealing with a local Access database and not Access fronting a SQL Server - in the latter case, all of the queries and what not take place on the SQL Server and not on the client. The latter case is not uncommon with Internal Applications that started off as an Access application and were later converted to run on SQL Server.

Re:We did this last time, and wasted a bunch of ti

[Anonymous Coward]

The confusion between 40G ethernet and 100G ethernet is vast. But the actual reason for the standard has nothing to do with time-to-market or technological limitations beyond 40G. The 40G ethernet standard is designed to run ethernet over telco OC768 links. This standard allows vendors to support OC768 with the same hardware they use in a 100Gbps ethernet port.