Mark Wright wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
MB=>But no one needs gigabit Ethernet to the desktop.
MB=>-- Mike
 MW> Oboy, heres one of those famous quotes like "640k should be
 MW> enough for anybody" (Bill Gates) or was that 512k...
 MW> The way bandwidth requirements are increasing, give it 2
 MW> years.
Well, I didn't say that no one would EVER need gigabit Ethernet to the 
desktop.  I can't imagine a growth rate in data that would justify this sort 
of bandwidth: the need to transfer this much data presupposes that you would 
have some way to generate and store it, which I don't see happening soon.
I would be willing to bet that no one in the real world (outside of 
government and academia) would need gigabit Ethernet to the desktop within 
two years.
 
-- Mike
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