short answer .... yes Long Answer...
As a business consultant with many major industries the maximum speed is never the issue. Just like in web based applications you don't buy one super computer and hope it works. Looking at scale is important. I like to call it "The Business of N+1" where a company or group can add and remove one unit of any resource as they see fit. So spending X dollars extra for N+1 scale will always get the vote. The potential maximum is also dependent on the end points. You can install a gigabit network card in a PCI slot but the math says that it can't transport full wire speed. Often switches and fiber transceivers can't work a full speed. As I was taught as a child, follow the money and buy two of everything important. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Simón Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, we'll be running it through an underground conduit between the > buildings, which allows for future upgrades, but would prefer to make > an informed choice up front to avoid having to replace the medium when > the fairly predictable march of bandwidth needs hits the "it'd be nice > to have 10G over these strands now..." point. > > We're planning to have the fiber terminating into SC or LC connectors > on our network rack, and using standard GBIC/SFP modules in our > switches. > > Could you write a book on theoretical future technological > improvements in fiber-optic transceiver technology, and their effect > on the effective bandwidth cap of current standard fiber-optic cables? > ;-) > > Simón > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this > in mind before posting. > -- ~ Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] http://lathama.net ~ _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
