10GbE: What the Heck Took So Long? 295
storagedude writes "10 Gigabit Ethernet may finally be catching on, some six years later than many predicted. So why did it take so long? Henry Newman offers a few reasons: 10GbE and PCIe 2 were a very promising combination when they appeared in 2007, but the Great Recession hit soon after and IT departments were dumping hardware rather than buying more. The final missing piece is finally arriving: 10GbE support on motherboards. 'What 10 GbE needs to become a commodity is exactly what 1 GbE got and what Fibre Channel failed to get: support on every motherboard,' writes Newman. 'The current landscape looks promising. 10 GbE is starting to appear on motherboards from every major server vendor, and I suspect that in just a few years, we'll start to see it on home PC boards, with the price dropping from the double digits to single digits, and then even down to cents.'"
Meanwhile (Score:2, Informative)
Everyone's still running off of ancient Cat3 wiring laid down when telephones were still analog.
Re:LACP (Score:3, Informative)
it's trivial to enable LACP to bond several 1 gbps links. no new equipment, no new cabling. that would have slowed down my 10 gbps deployment.
10x1gb != 1x10gb. Your LACP bond still limits a single stream to a single link. Even with multiple streams, you would have to have a lot in order of them to hash out to all the links.