Part 5: Bob Metcalfe - Toward Terabit Ethernet at OFC/NFOEC

The Internet is expanding at rates unimaginable even 10 years ago, and with new applications and traffic characteristics not envisioned at the start. I will walk through a roadmap to TbE, factoring in traffic drivers and volumes, key issues and tradeoffs, and the relative roles of packet and high-bandwidth optical circuit transport and switching. For example, will TbE simply hasten the routing of today's Internet Protocol (IP) packets, or will some form of lambda switching be needed to carry time-critical volume flows?

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[lasertuber]

Not sure where the insights were. Maybe i missed them. As a software professional, I can say that Video is not last driver. Its just the latest thing to try and squeeze onto the bus. Datacenters and applications route most of their traffic to local or private networks to avoid the internet.