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Re:Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch by dsr_ on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @04:13PM (#9035740)
One of the great things about computing is that stuff which was insanely high-end N years ago is high-end of affordable now and will be commodity in another N years.

And N years after that you get that functionality for free along with your new TV.

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Re:Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch by juliangoldsmith on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @04:24PM (#9035802)
I'm not entirely sure what I'd do with 1.28 Tb/s of switching power.

Though, 30 years ago, in Neuromancer, William Gibson wrote about the city of Los Angeles transferring megabytes (yes, whole megabytes) of data each second, so he probably couldn't have imagined what someone would do with the gigabit switch on my desk.

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Re:Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch by rustyconover on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @04:19PM (#9035772)
If the people who brought me HDCP[1] are the same people that will give me a networking switch inside my television, maybe I will consider using this Facebook switch after all.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_...

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