http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15300004
Gigabit Ethernet has been coming with all the inevitability of Godzilla advancing on a night-shrouded Tokyo -- now we can feel the monster's hot breath. As applications become more data-intensive, and as the requirements for networking bandwidth grow, Gigabit Ethernet becomes a more likely alternative.
Even if you are not prepared to put the backbone in, you can easily and cheaply equip nodes with this capability, and then upgrade the backbone later. Alternatively, in new installations, the argument for having the capability in the backbone from the get-go is hard to ignore.
This article discusses the current state of play in this area.
Posted by jho at October 23, 2003 10:56 AM