10 times faster than 5G, are you ready for 10 Gigabit communication?

 However, for individual home users, without such a large data throughput, 10 Gigabit network is already enough to boast of at the moment. The 2022 Winter Olympic Games will let everyone see the joy of 5G high-speed surfing. The development of communication technology, the transmission rate is getting faster and faster, constantly redefining the way the world is connected. IEEE predicts that device connections will grow from 18 billion devices (in 2017) to 28.5 billion devices (by 2022). The number of Internet users will "soar from 3.4 billion in 2017 to 4.8 billion in 2022. The explosive growth of network traffic has not only accelerated mobile communications into the 5G era, but also given rise to the collective upgrade of broadband and other networks. In recent years, major operators have launched 3,000 megabit, full gigabit solutions, so that gigabit 5G, gigabit broadband, gigabit Wi-Fi into thousands of homes, and become the same as water, electricity, coal, home infrastructure configuration. If the network speed also has a chain of contempt, "full gigabit" is not the envy of the pyramid tip? For ordinary people, it is indeed so. However, there are some people who have already taken the lead in "10 Gigabit" up. At present, the network infrastructure of cloud data centers has reached the 400Gbps standard, which is 400 times the bandwidth of 5G, and is still moving towards 800G and 1600G. However, for individual home users, there is not that much data throughput, 10 Gigabit network is enough to be proud of nowadays. Every fundamental change in the field of communications has brought about a sea change in our lives. Ten years ago, we couldn't imagine that the mobile Internet supported by 4G would be of such a scale, creating countless Internet giants and unicorns; 5G is also accelerating the transformation of thousands of industries, constantly giving rise to a rich and colorful scene of innovative applications. So, how will 10 Gigabit communication change our life style when it enters the consumer market? What makes Ethernet the soil of 10 Gigabit network? If we don't consider the cost, the faster the surfing speed, the better, standing on the tide of technology, such as you, perhaps you can't wait to call the carrier: 10 Gigabit package faster, give your valued customers a copy. This time, the other party is also very difficult, 10 megabit network is generally an enterprise level service, private customization is not impossible, you have to add money. How much to add, you will give it according to the scale of the university education network. At this time, if the family does not really have a mine, most people should be laid to rest. There is also a group of people, by virtue of knowledge is power, relying on some enterprise server room 10 Gigabit switch, commonly known as "picking up garbage", their own home to save up 10 Gigabit network. How can it be so humble for ordinary people to have access to 10 Gigabit network? Here it is necessary to explain a problem: why 10 Gigabit network can only be achieved through the Ethernet network? As mentioned earlier, the current 5G cellular network, wireless network WiFi-6, home broadband have been commercialized gigabit services. If you want higher speeds, you can only hope that the local area network, that is, the intranet. Simply put, it is to allow their own desktop, notebook computers, cell phones, game consoles, tablets, smart TVs, smart sockets, storage devices NAS and other devices to communicate with each other through a small internal network. The internal local area network is often constructed using Ethernet. Explaining the concept and history of Ethernet is really a very boring thing. Cisco, the so-called Golden Gate Bridge of the Internet, believes that this knowledge is not very meaningful in their courses. Interested readers can search for themselves, let's just talk about why we need to rely on Ethernet if we want a "10 Gigabit" experience nowadays. First, and the use of radio waves compared to WiFi, Ethernet directly through the cable, fiber optic cable transmission data, stable and reliable anti-interference, the game online when more likely to fall off the chain pit teammates. Secondly, the cellular mobile network, the latest generation of mobile communication network 5G, the peak theoretical transmission speed of about 100Mbps, transmission capacity than 5G 10 times higher than the 6G, but can reach the 10 Gigabit standard, but is still in the research and development, widespread commercialization is not in the foreseeable future. (The original Ethernet system diagram) Since these two are not in play, fiber-to-the-home fixed-line broadband, there is always hope. However, the home broadband network is often a complex structure, connected to the external network through the local area network, network construction, upgrade, expansion are more troublesome, has begun to keep up with the speed of the computer terminal overlap, becoming the main bottleneck to block the user experience. For example, in 2020 Apple has added a 10Gb 10Gb Ethernet interface for M1Macmini, but if the user does not have a 10Gb network is still blind. In 2005, IEEE standard 802.3x, the 10GbE as the fastest Ethernet standard in the local area network (LAN). 2017, the end of the IEEE is the approval of In late 2017, the IEEE approved 200GbE and 400GbE standards to meet the higher bandwidth needs of cloud service providers and very large data center operators. Since 1982 was adopted as a standard by the IEEE, Ethernet has experienced 40 years of hardship, with the advantages of continuous evolution, high-speed stability and reliability, the world's most widely used network technology, but also the first to stand on the tide of the home 10 Gigabit network. Is the demand for 10 Gigabit at home real? Perhaps many people will feel that the current gigabit-class network is completely sufficient, downloading files, playing games, watching some video is not much of a lag. To that high speed is also a waste of money. Indeed, 10 Gigabit Ethernet can provide a transmission rate of 10 Gbps to transmit data at a rate of 10 billion bits per second, over the years, mainly for data centers, enterprise local area networks and other scenarios. For example, schools need high-definition video applications to support digital teaching, LiDAR and sensor applications in the digital military, requiring large amounts of data throughput; or the continuous development of the Internet of Things in the enterprise campus, increasingly sensitive to network latency ...... At this time, the lack of network bandwidth of the metropolitan area network, packet loss, equipment dead situation will The network bandwidth of the metro network is not enough, and packet loss and equipment crash will cause relatively large losses. Therefore, it is often solved by 10 Gigabit local area network. As one of the "new infrastructure" hyper-converged digital infrastructure, there is also a trend of converged Ethernet technology. But for home users, 10 Gigabit network is a bit of a killer? In fact, the results can be deduced from the results, if the Gigabit network is really enough, there will not be so many 10 Gigabit network DIY experts. This is mainly because some people may really have cows in their homes. If you are a 3A game, HD video lovers, facing 4K, 8K picture quality, gigabit network to download and copy a 4K blockbuster takes a few minutes, for people who are accustomed to the second to pass the second to see, it is really difficult to suffer. If you are a content creator or an up-owner who loves to generate electricity, more and more video, 3D and game studios are working remotely due to the epidemic, so uploading and downloading video materials and program files to centralized storage every day greatly affects work efficiency. At this time, the ultra-wide bandwidth provided by 10GbE can open a huge design file in a few seconds, which can indeed achieve more relaxed collaboration. If you are a penny-pinching hardware enthusiast who has purchased a notebook with a 10GbE interface and can't bear to see the potential wasted, you can only do it yourself and build a 10GbE intranet to make them shine. If you have a large amount of learning data storage needs, spend a lot of money to buy the read and write speed often hundreds of megabytes of hard disk, but the file transfer speed is not able to keep up with the pace of the storage hardware. The 10 Gigabit network can easily throughput at a rate of 1.25GB/s and copy a 20GB file to another computer in 20 seconds, how a cool word. At this point, you may feel that more bandwidth is better than less. In addition to speed, 10 Gigabit Ethernet also comes with a number of other benefits. For example, flexible expansion, the direct use of mid-range Ethernet switches as access devices, simplifying the complexity of network configuration; strong adaptability, able to automatically identify a variety of network applications such as data services, voice services, video services, and provide bandwidth protection. It is better to start "picking up trash" than to build a 10 Gigabit network. How many steps does it take to build a 10GbE network? You may have already started to work on deploying your own home 10GbE network. Don't worry, although DIY is not uncommon in 2022, but the reason why the 10 Gigabit network is not popular on a large scale, or because there are not a small threshold, both to test the thickness of the wallet, but also requires a reserve of technology. The first is fiber optic. To ensure the stability of the 10 Gigabit network, it must be connected by wire. There are many types of twisted-pair cables available, but 10 Gigabit networks generally use Category 7, a twisted-pair cable recognized by the ISO/IEC 118017 Class/F standard in 2002, with transmission rates up to 10 Gbps. This also reminds us that it is best to deploy the network in one step, and choose the best within the range of affordability to reduce the cost of secondary transformation. Second, 10 Gigabit router. The router can maximize the performance of broadband, is the center of the home network, many operators will now give free WiFi-6 router in the gigabit package. If you want wireless devices to enjoy 10 Gigabit Internet speed, then a 10 Gigabit router is essential. In the e-commerce platform, a high-end 10 Gigabit router often costs several thousand dollars. Next, 10 Gigabit network card. The network card is a local area network to connect the computer and the transmission medium interface, the computer must have 10 Gigabit network card to run 10Gbps speed. At present, some brand-name computers such as Apple has built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet port, supporting the optional 10 Gigabit NIC. Of course, speed is time, time is money, so you have to add money. By the way, some short video producers, game studios, game enthusiasts, etc., may also need a NAS that supports 10 Gigabit transmission speed, in order to make the management of resources, backup, sharing, to achieve better read and write speed. It is not difficult to find that money not only limits the imagination, but also limits the speed of the network. However, this does not mean that the average person is completely out of touch with 10 Gigabit. In a rapidly changing society, the digitalization of thousands of industries and the popularization of telecommuting and other work methods will give rise to a large number of new network applications, greatly increasing the demand for network bandwidth. The 10 Gigabit network will finally come down from the unreachable pyramid and enter the public consumption market. The increase in basic network speed will be like fertile soil for a new generation of Internet applications and services to flourish, such as digital people or metaverse. As Metcalfe, the inventor of the Ethernet, said, "Designing the Ethernet as an open, industrialized standard local network is more meaningful than inventing the Ethernet itself.