Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

From: Gregory Maxwell (greg@linuxpower.cx)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 16:15:34 EST


On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Aaron Holtzman wrote:

> It would seem that David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com) said:
> > You are. It really is 1 billion bits per second. It can be full or
> > half-duplex. Perhaps you are thinking of the bandwidth, which is 500Mhz.
> >
> Bandwidth is the same as Fast Ethernet (62.5 MHz). Instead, four pairs
> are used, with 2 bits per symbol == 1000 Mbps.

Thats gig over copper, gig over fiber is quite differnt.

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