10G Ethernet is here to stay; demand for 100G increases

摘要

Give businesses a big data pipe and they'll find a way to fill it. At Lightpath, we can certainly testify to that adage. No sooner did many of our customers cross the 1 gigabit threshold and they start getting hungry for even more bandwidth. In fact, sales of 10G Ethernet lines to our customers nearly doubled in 2013 versus the year prior. There was a moment when it seemed the next bandwidth jump would be to 40G. While the industry is still in the early stages, it's become clear that we're moving full steam ahead to 100G. Deployments have already begun. Just this past March, Lightpath announced that a media and entertainment company is using our 100G optical transport service to move large volumes of video. Across the industry, deployments will continue to ramp up as demand for ever more bandwidth increases.