ASRock WS-E/10G motherboard offers 22Gbps networking

[azrael-]

You might want to mention two additional "enthusiast" features, namely the possibility of using Xeon processors and the subsequent use of ECC memory. The latter is something I'd love on non-X-series motherboards (the former is usually possible), but Intel decided to scrap that feature, when it moved from Core2 to Core iXXXX processors. A lamentable decision...

[KendrickDM]

With a maximum 55 - 37 meters cable length you would have to have a server in every cabinet and distribute your servers through the building. There is relevence in this if you are streaming or playing media, i.e. every classroom in a school needs to play a HD media program to every pc without affecting incoming live youtube streaming, unfortunately the focus is on WIFI laptops and tablets, not LAN infrastructure at this time.

[DanceswithUnix]

While 55m may not be enough to string a wire the length of Bill Gate's yacht (even with a switch in the middle), it will do fine in my house

[8bit]

I'm thinking about my high-network-use work environment, but even there I struggle to see how this can possibly be useful... My office network connection is 1GBit to a router down the corridor, shared with a whole bunch of other people in the building. That router connects to the main servers along with a load of other similar routers on site. At no point can I use more than the minimum bandwidth between my closest router and the servers...

I can see the point of it in the server environment, marginally also for heavy users in a commercial/university environment, it seems so far ahead of most existing infrastructure that for an end user, especially in the domestic market, this is utterly pointless. Marketing it for domestic end users is pretty ridiculous!

Home VMWare environment maybe? Perhaps a home-brew media server for a number of client devices? Nobody thought anyone would ever need 1Gbps in the home until HD video came along, now it's becoming more commonplace on domestic broadband router/switch devices. 10Gbps will come and so will a day when we look back and wonder how we ever managed with 1Gbps home LANs.

[Agent]

Nobody thought anyone would ever need 1Gbps in the home until HD video came along

Well aside from moving files around the actual network faster (HD Video or any other files), streaming will not benefit from it, which is the way things seem to be going.

15Mbps can do 4k@60 fps with the new HEVC stuff.

Even if you go with x264 and claim something high like 50Mbps, you're still looking at a heck of a lot of unused bandwidth.

[bledd]

Can't wait for 10Gbe to become the norm.

Means I won't have to mess around with trunking at home.

[badass]

Well aside from moving files around the actual network faster (HD Video or any other files), streaming will not benefit from it, which is the way things seem to be going.

15Mbps can do 4k@60 fps with the new HEVC stuff.

Even if you go with x264 and claim something high like 50Mbps, you're still looking at a heck of a lot of unused bandwidth.

Indeed. it's the moving of huge files or huge other kinds of data around where you'll see the benefit at home.
For me, the best use would be removing the spinning disk from my computer to somewhere remote with no perceivable performance penalty.
Hopefully in the 3-7 years time when 10GbE starts appearing on motherboards in the sub £200 range and an 8 Port switch drops below £200, the die shrinks will mean that the motherboard and switch don't meaningfully affect the power bill and something fast enough to hold some spinny disks and deliver the data as fast as the disks can be read/written to.

[DanceswithUnix]

Indeed. it's the moving of huge files or huge other kinds of data around where you'll see the benefit at home.
For me, the best use would be removing the spinning disk from my computer to somewhere remote with no perceivable performance penalty.
Hopefully in the 3-7 years time when 10GbE starts appearing on motherboards in the sub £200 range and an 8 Port switch drops below £200, the die shrinks will mean that the motherboard and switch don't meaningfully affect the power bill and something fast enough to hold some spinny disks and deliver the data as fast as the disks can be read/written to.

You can already buy quite a bit of SSD storage for £200, and laptop spinning rust drives are really quiet it is only the 3.5" stuff that makes a din.

[Splash]

10GbE NICs have been dropping in price for a while. Switching on the other hand is still holding firm (especially 10Gbase-T, the fibre variants have come down a little in the last couple of months).

Like a few other posters I'd love a small, reasonably priced 10GbE copper switch for the home lab. I'm not holding my breath.

[tfboy]

I doubt the 10GB ports are for surfing t'internet!

I totally agree, but it's not what their marketing video is suggesting