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hardware vs software (was Re: draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-aes-ctr-00.txt)



On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Alex Alten wrote:
> What year it is also determines the expected data rate that most PCs use.
> This year it is still 100 Mbps.

No, this year it is still 10 Mbps.  100 Mbps is coming on strong, but I
doubt that it even has a majority of the jacks, let alone "most".  (A lot
of 10/100 interfaces currently run at 10, because that's what the local
network infrastructure supports.)  Don't confuse what's selling best with
what's used most; there *is* a time lag there, even though it's shorter in
computing than elsewhere.

The 10->100 transition is well underway but by no means complete, partly
because a lot of users don't *need* 100 that much.  It's only quite
recently that the costs of 100 have come down to the point that ordinary
users are buying 10/100 hubs and such by default, instead of by specific
need only. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net