Punko; Ah the dream of universal 10M bandwidth, with no interference by others. It is coming. Remember when 300 baud was fast, and 1200 was a screamer. How blase we are now, 10MB/S, of course we now try to send cows over the line, and use the full 10MB/S, what you want some too?
With large nets, fully capable of giving all 10MB/S at the same time, we will approach the absolute server computer. Try it with 100,000 subscribers in Toronto, all using 10MB/S, that is 1 TB/S (1000 Gigabits/SEC). That all has to be input sorted, processed, results sent to each. A mighty task. Well step back 10 years, and we have the same with 300 baud. Are we that much faster? 300,000 times as fast?
I think we need another five years.
Have you heard of the Bay gigabit net? It runs as we speak between major Bay area users. 1000 times as big is what you envision.
OK we got it, what next? 400 MB/s ?
Gatescode will stay for a while, and even in the far future he will adapt to the needs for it's successor, and will make it. If others are cheap, so will he be.
Bill |
