How far away (in terms of time) are we from having 10 gigabit ethernet at home? The technology's been available for a couple years now, but most of the etailers have only a very limited selection of (prohibitively expensive enterprise class) routers and NICs, and I couldn't find a single etailer selling Cat6a cables.
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Years and years. 10Gig-e are used by larger ISP's as backbone trunks. I don't think we as consumers have anywhere near anything that would use that much bandwidth. That would have enough bandwidth to stream uncompressed 4K and still have room on the same line for 50+Mb/s internet service. Besides, most 10Gb-e have optical connections anyway, and aren't copper wires in the traditional sense.
10 Gigabit Ethernet?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Peon, Sep 13, 2010.