Cisco Systems plans to introduce a network switch today for corporations grappling with rapidly growing Internet data transfers and the increased use of applications that draw on remote data storage, known as cloud computing.
The switch, the Nexus 7000, will provide a sharp increase in traffic capacity compared with the company’s current products, to 15 trillion bits of data per second.
Cisco…offered a range of examples to try to capture the significance of the increase in speed. It said the switch could transfer all 90,000 Netflix movies in 38.4 seconds or send a two megapixel digital image to every human being on Earth in 28 minutes.
Reports of the Web collapsing from overload may be premature?
Hell, I’d be happy if my ISP would give me 10mbit much less 100mbit, 1000mbit or 1000000mbit.
How fast is that in Libraries of Congress per second?
#2: Rougly 0.01 LoC/s
…D’oh. Gotta keep track of that decimal point. I mean 0.1 LoC/s, obviously…
>_<
SWEET!! hook it up at my house! i really thought there would be no solution to the bandwidth explosion (youTube and all them)
and all I can think of is the WWWIzard from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Anything that can get porn to my computer faster, has to be a good thing.
Amazing that a computer that is obviously from the mid 90’s could handle that kind of speed. And look at the lines coming out of the screen! It must be really fast to have lines!
I’ve got a brain cloud. Is that the same thing?
ah and now for the reality check…….
how many spam emails per second is this???
hhmmmmmm
I seriously doubt that this is fast enough to keep me happy
Still, “It’s not a truck…it’s a series of tubes.”
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/20/series-of-tubes-as-a.html
Welcome to the ‘real world’ Neo!
And the telcos’ excuse for not using that switch? The USA is too big.
More speed to throw most users faster against the wall
The biggest problems of most computer users center around their limited typing skills and system slow downs from spyware
Indeed most computer users proudly announce that their powerfull modern computers are “solitaire machines”
Where do I get that keyboard!
With the Telcos and Cable Cos as Internet Toll-takers, IT WON’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE !!!
WE NEED BYPASS !!!