100 GbE

[xco]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Gigabit_Ethernet


can i have one?

 

[ricno]

can i have one?

Very unlikely. Even if you did manage to buy a 100 Gb card you will not find a switch with 100 Gb support.

Look at these enterprise switches, somewhat top of the line, and still only "architecture support for 40 GbE and 100 GbE", which means that they likely will have future support for this technology.

And both NICs and switches will probably not be cheap..

And what kind of CPU would you have that could possible manage to deal with 100 Gbit of network flow?

And also - what shall you send or recieve? At 100 Gbit/sec you could in theory transfer about 13 Gigabyte per second (not any protocol overhead included, but quite small). So which disks could handle 13 GByte per second?

This will not be for any PC at home for a while..

 

[xco]

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