| Stupid This is so stupid. No single computer right now could even use 100gbps, let alone 40gbps.
You have no way to get that speed into the computer to where it would be even usable. Your hard drive, and ram can't handle anything that fast yet. Any PCI-e card you use to get it in your computer isnt going at 40gbps.
So what is the point of even doing this. |
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| said by dlewis23:So what is the point of even doing this. TO BE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF BBREPORTS.COM!!!
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 RaptorNot a Dumptruck
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London, ON | said by supergirl:THE FRONT PAGE OF BBREPORTS.COM!!! Xerox?  |
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 BoogeymanDrive it like you stole itPremium
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Because a pipe that fat can hold 1500 HD feeds at the same time (According to the blurb on this from /.). Since right now the cable companies have to compress thier signals for HD due to not enough bandwidth, this could help us realize un-compressed HD, and numerous channels of it.
Remember, that bandwidth isnt just for internet use. |
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You are looking at this from an absurdly narrow view and should be careful what you call stupid.
This is not for just one PC it can be used to stream all kinds of data, phone, TV, music, videos etc. It would 'power' you whole house not just the PC in your basement |
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 DaSneaky1Done wall to block them allPremium,MVM
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The Lou | reply to dlewis23
Long haul, high bandwidth connections without the need of repeating....win-win.
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Okay, IT MAKES A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THIS SITE JEALOUS OF AN OLD SWISS LADY THAT DOESN'T USE THAT MASSIVE PIPE TO DOWNLOAD PORN FOR THEIR PENCIL-SIZED STYLUS!!! 
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said by Shark_615:You are looking at this from an absurdly narrow view That seems to be a recently added requirement to join.
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said by dlewis23:This is so stupid. No single computer right now could even use 100gbps, let alone 40gbps. If every component/protocol manufacturer/developer (of any field of the modern world) waited on his counterpart to develope a product that can use the higher end product, they would ALL be waiting on each other endlessly. Advancement would come to a stall, and there would never be any further developements ... of anything!
Don't think in the box.
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said by Shark_615:You are looking at this from an absurdly narrow view and should be careful what you call stupid. This is not for just one PC it can be used to stream all kinds of data, phone, TV, music, videos etc. It would 'power' you whole house neighborhood not just the PC in your basement
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| said by bent:would 'power' you whole house neighborhood
In other words, it would be "Tubes 2.0"
LMDAO !!!
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Memory bandwidth is measured in bytes and network connection speeds are measured in bits.
A 1333MHz FSB with dual channel DDR2 memory supports 12,800 MBps. A 100Gbps internet connection provides 12.5GBps. 12,800 MBps is equal to 12.5GBps (1 GB = 2^10 MB).
Therefore, modern computers can use 100Gbps internet connections in terms of RAM. However, connecting the connection to the northbridge would require a 32x PCI Express 2.0 network card and a corresponding 32x PCI Express 2.0 slot, both of which are not currently available, but will be available soon. Also, theoretically speaking, a 1.6GHz 64bit processor or a 3.2GHz 32bit processor would be necessary to process data at the rate it would be received.
Of course, this ignores the fact that these are full duplex connections, which would require that computer systems be able to receive and send at 100Gbps simultaneously, something that would require FB-DIMMs and 64bit processors. |
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said by dlewis23:So what is the point of even doing this. Her son, Peter Löthberg, isn't exactly a nobody. He's pretty much a optical guru and when he speaks, many companies that matter listen. Cisco went to him to help design some of their gigabit routers. When he installed the line it wasn't put in to be just an every day connection. It was for a proof of concept, this-is-what-we-can-do type of thing. It would be the equivalent of Bill Gates installing in his parents home a data center running Windows Server...will his parents ever use it to it's full capacity? Never. Is it something cool that maybe one day everyone will have the equivalent? Yeah. |
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