On May 5, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Robert Kubrick wrote:
I am preparing a presentation where I will discuss commodity
interconnects and the evolution of Ethernet and Infiniband NICs. The
idea is to show the advance in network interfaces speed over time on
a chart. So far I have collected the following *approximative* data
for Ethernet:
1990 --> 100Mbits/s
2000 --> 1Gbits/s
2010 --> 10Gbits/s
2020 --> 100Gbits/s
FWIW, your ethernet timeline might be a little too long. I could
swear I read an internet trade rag recently that was anticipating pre-
standard 40Gbps ethernet equipment by the end of 2010 (similar to how
you can buy pre-standard 802.11n equipment from a variety of vendors
now). My *guess* is that 100Gbps will follow much less than 10 years
later because there are already carriers today who need/want/would buy
it.
(note: that's totally a guess -- don't read anything into into based
on my email address; I'm in the unified computing/server group at
Cisco -- nowhere near related to the 40/100Gbps groups)
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
