Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking?

[David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>]

Steven Schnell sez:
> >     
> FDDI is a finished standard and no more bandwidth upgrades are planned.
> Ethernet, however, is now in the gigabit range.  It may be extended to
> operate in the multi-gigabit range, if the IEEE decides the frame format
> and the media access method will work at such speeds.  Products based on
> GbE are in use today.  A NAP can drop in one or two GbE switches, connect
> them to existing GIGAswitch/FDDIs, and scale (somewhat) from there.  Come
> to NANOG this next week to see how this can be done.

See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html
for an application of Packet Engine GbE.

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