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Technology Stocks : ATM vs. Gigabit
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To: Vincent Yaffnarro who wrote (2)7/22/1997 3:37:00 PM
From: Geof Hollingsworth   of 63
 
IMHO Gigabit ethernet is not going to "take off" in the LAN environment until it can migrate into the LAN itself (out of the backbone), and that's not going to happen until the earlier of:

1. Companies pulling fiber to the desktop, or

2. GbE becoming available over UTP.

The latter is the more promising route (again IMHO), but the challenges at the physical layer are formidable and the first standards are not likely to be set until sometime next year. The relevant IEEE committee just met a couple of weeks ago and from what I have heard, the progress (or lack thereof) was disapponting.

With regard to QoS, remember that while bandwidth and latency are related, they are not identical. Bandwidth you can buy; latency comes only from God (or whomever you credit with establishing the speed of light).
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