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  • Additionally HCAs carry the ability to be used for not just interprocessor networks, attaching I/O subsystems, but also for multi-protocol switches such as Gbit Ethernet switches.

    Latest News from Virtualization Journal 2010

  • Additionally HCAs carry the ability to be used for not just interprocessor networks, attaching I/O subsystems, but also for multi-protocol switches such as Gbit Ethernet switches.

    Latest News from Virtualization Journal 2010

  • Well in Sweden so far, the national broadband traffic levels through the Internet Exchange Points have failed to increase, they lie steadily at about 100 Gbit/s.

    Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

  • “Right after the law came into force on April 1st, the Swedish national broadband traffic dropped dramatically from an average of 160 Gbit/s to about 100 Gbit/s,” they post on the Royal Pingdom, continuing »»»

    Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

  • It went online in December last year, and, “provides the fastest subscription based Internet speeds in North Carolina – up to 100 Mbit/s for homes, up to one Gbit/s to businesses,” says the Wikipedia.

    Time Warner stomps Wilson, North Carolina 2009

  • Considering they have a transfer rate of 1 Gbit/s, they could theoretically be used to watch uncompressed or nearly uncompressed high def video, but as the other two posters pointed out, streaming is the future.

    Michael Mann Wants to Do 3D, Martin Scorsese Praises Blu-ray (And Why That Praise is Short-Lived) | /Film 2009

  • Well in Sweden so far, the national broadband traffic levels through the Internet Exchange Points have failed to increase, they lie steadily at about 100 Gbit/s.

    Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

  • “Right after the law came into force on April 1st, the Swedish national broadband traffic dropped dramatically from an average of 160 Gbit/s to about 100 Gbit/s,” they post on the Royal Pingdom, continuing »»»

    Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

  • A 1 Gbit/sec ethernet connection is 1 billion bits/second or 125 million Bytes/second.

    Why are download speeds faster than upload speeds? | Sync Blog 2007

  • It went online in December last year, and, “provides the fastest subscription based Internet speeds in North Carolina – up to 100 Mbit/s for homes, up to one Gbit/s to businesses,” says the Wikipedia.

    Time Warner stomps Wilson, North Carolina 2009

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