God Bless the folks over at Cisco. Their new "Nexus 7000" data center switch certainly appears to be able to bring about the end to the aggravating beast known as "network congestion". If this article turns out to be true, then bye bye congestion.
Cisco Systems Inc. introduced on Monday a new data-center switch that the company says can copy all the searchable data on the Internet in less than eight minutes, or run 5 million concurrent high-quality videoconferences between New York and San Francisco.
See what I mean??
If you think those numbers are crazy, look at these:
Cisco says that the new data-center switch would be able to copy all the searchable data on the Internet in 7.5 minutes, download Wikipedia's database in 10 milliseconds or download 90,000 Netflix movies in less than 40 seconds. It also can run 5 million concurrent transcontinental videoconferences using the company's Telepresence Collaboration systems, a company spokeswoman said.
I WANT that sort of power in my house....NOW!!! But I'm afraid I'd have to get the 100Mbps fiber optic service that Verizon offers to even think about having a switch like that to use. None the less though, ISPs need to seriously consider getting this switch when it is released later this year.
DismissedTM
