NBN 1Gbps.???
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From: Rod Speed on 13 Aug 2010 05:56 Don McKenzie wrote: > Now I ask, what server will be able to deliver a download speed of 1Gbps, let alone have a network, and an individual > PC receive it at that speed? Am I missing something? Yes, no one ever said anything about a download speed of 1Gbps. > I thinketh we will just be waiting 10 times as long! > Just watching Charlie Brown, the so-called tech-guru on Chan 9 today show. He says Gillard is also offering the > filter, and Abbott isn't. Telling us as if it is a concrete fact. What do you expect from the today show ? > I doubt Charlie's credentials of being a guru somewhat, but why is he also pushing Gillard as bringing in the filter, > when other sources are now saying no? Conroy isnt saying that. > http://www.filter-conroy.com/ > http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/08/five-ways-around-the-filter-in-two-minutes/
From: terryc on 13 Aug 2010 08:17 On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:10:00 +1000, Don McKenzie wrote: > I feel the biggest bottleneck will be disk I/O speeds, but they will get > much better over a period of time as SSD technology takes over. Server disk I/O will be fine and there is always solid state. Priced any ramm chips lately. Additionally, server farms are real old technology.
From: keithr on 13 Aug 2010 18:40
On 13/08/2010 11:10 AM, Don McKenzie wrote: > On 13/08/2010 10:57 AM, terryc wrote: > >> The internet currently has the technology(multicast) built in to supply >> the same signal to as many of more customers at the same time. It is just >> a matter of receiving software and probably upgrading some intermediate >> boxen (if that). > > Let's have a look at the current world wide bandwidth stats: > http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ > > South Korea has the best figures in the world: > http://www.netindex.com/download/2,89/South-Korea/ > which is 32.22 Mbps. > > I feel the biggest bottleneck will be disk I/O speeds, but they will get > much better over a period of time as SSD technology takes over. > > Cheers Don... The company that I work for make big storage servers. By big I mean hundred to thousands of drives in a box. The drives can range from SSDs, to 15K rpm fibre channel, to 7.2K rpm SATA drives depending on the the required speed of access to the data. Each box is capable of servicing up to 64 1 gig ethernet or 4 gig fibre channel connections simultaneously. You just stripe your data across many drives and put in a big cache (up to 256 gig of mirrored RAM). The problem with how people look at the NBN is that they only consider home PCs, but business will be the main beneficiary. |