On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:16:37PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Don Stewart wrote:
*Very* high performance can be expected, with throughput over 1G/sec observed in practice (good enough for most networking scenarios, we suspect).
Um... I wasn't aware that there was any harddrive or networking technology that goes this fast?
Anyway, I'll have to take a look at the package and see if I can figure out how to work it. It is likely to prove quite useful...
It's what we call "ironic understatement", I suspect. Anyways, a single-mode optical fiber (as thin as a human hair), can transmit data at around 1,000,000 Gbit/s. Good luck finding a sufficiently advanced line driver; the last time I ran the Linux configuation program, it prompted up to 10,000 Mbit/s, so we're probably at least that far... Stefan