The long and winding road to 10 Gigabit + in the Home Network
Channel: LinuxConfAu 2018 - Sydney, Australia
Date: 2018-01-25

Joel Wirāmu Pauling

http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/54/

100 Base T was introduced in 1995 and it took only a few years for it to displace 10Mbit NICs and switches completely in consumer and business networks. Likewise 1000 Base-* was introduced in 1999 as a standard and since 2008 has been the De-facto choice of Wired Network Interfaces in consumer and home networks and associated devices.
More than a decade on, the humble Gigabit interface is still the fastest standardized port available to interconnect Consumer Equipment by and large.
10Gbit networks in the Datacentre have been the go-to server choice for some time - and QSFP28+ 100GBit is now starting to dominate the DC. Why haven't these technologies made it into Laptops and Desktops around the globe?
What options do you actually have for faster than 1GBit connections away from expensive enterprise situations?

This talk will cover the spectrum of options, performance tests, quirks and caveats relating to these questions. Including a focus on Thunderbolt3 kernel patches, USB3.0 and why the leap from 1000mbit to 10000mbit and beyond is taking so damn long.

This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.

linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/

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