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

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

The 2022 Winter Olympics let everyone experience the joy of 5G high-speed surfing. With the development of communication technology, the transmission rate is getting faster and faster, constantly redefining the connection method of the world.

IEEE predicts that device connections will grow from 18 billion (2017) to 28.5 billion devices (by 2022). The number of internet users will “surge from 3.4 billion in 2017 to 4.8 billion in 2022”. The explosive growth of network traffic has not only driven the acceleration of mobile communications into the 5G era, but has also spawned the collective upgrade of broadband and other networks.

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In recent years, major operators have launched three-gigabit and full-gigabit solutions, allowing Gigabit 5G, Gigabit broadband, and Gigabit Wi-Fi to enter thousands of households and become the same basic home configuration as water, electricity, and coal. .

If the Internet speed also has a contempt chain, is “full gigabit” an enviable pyramid tip? For ordinary people, it does. However, there are still some people who have already taken the lead in “10 trillion”.

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 such a large data throughput, and the 10 Gigabit network is now enough to disdain the crowd.

Every fundamental change in the field of communications has brought earth-shaking changes to our lives. Ten years ago, we could not have imagined that the mobile Internet supported by 4G would have such a scale, creating countless Internet giants and unicorns; 5G is also accelerating the transformation of thousands of industries, constantly spawning a variety of innovative application scenarios. So, how will 10 Gigabit Communications enter the consumer market and how will it change our way of life?

Why does Ethernet become the soil of 10G network?

If you don’t consider the cost, the surfing speed is of course the faster the better. If you are a trendsetter standing in the forefront of technology, you may be eager to call the operator: hurry up with the 10 Gigabit package, and give your valued users a chance share.

At this time, the other party is also very embarrassed. The 10 Gigabit network is generally an enterprise-level service, and private customization is not impossible, and you have to pay more. How much to add, you can give it according to the scale of the college education network.

At this time, if it is not true that there are mines at home, most people should have died. There is also a group of people who, relying on knowledge is power, built a 10G network at home by relying on the 10G switches in some enterprise server rooms, commonly known as “picking garbage”.

Ordinary people want to use 10 Gigabit networks, why are they so humble?

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It is necessary to explain a question here: Why is the 10 Gigabit network currently only implemented through Ethernet?

As mentioned earlier, 5G cellular networks, wireless networks WiFi-6, and home broadband have all achieved commercial gigabit services. If you still want higher network speed, you can only hope on the local area network, that is, the intranet.

Simply put, it is to let your desktops, laptops, mobile phones, game consoles, tablets, smart TVs, smart sockets, storage devices NAS and other devices communicate through an internal small network. The internal local area network is often constructed with Ethernet (Ethernet).

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Explaining the concept and history of Ethernet is really boring. Cisco, known as the Internet Golden Gate Bridge, believes that this knowledge is not very meaningful in their courses. Interested readers can search for it by themselves, and we will directly talk about why you must rely on Ethernet if you want a “10 Gigabit” experience now.
First of all, compared with WiFi using radio waves, Ethernet transmits data directly through cables and optical cables, which is stable, reliable and anti-interference.
Secondly, as for the cellular mobile network, the latest generation of mobile communication network 5G, the peak theoretical transmission speed is about 100Mbps, and the transmission capacity of 6G is 10 times higher than that of 5G. Commercial use is still far away.

Since these two are not in play, there is always hope for fiber-to-the-home fixed-line broadband. However, home broadband networks are often complex in structure. Connecting to the external network through a local area network makes network construction, upgrade, and expansion more troublesome. It has begun to fail to keep up with the iteration speed of computer terminals, which has become a major bottleneck for the user experience. For example, in 2020, Apple has added a 10Gb 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface to the M1Macmini, but if the user does not have a 10 Gigabit network, it is still useless.

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In contrast to Ethernet, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) proposed 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) over copper cables during November 2002. In 2005, IEEE designated 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) as the fastest Ethernet standard in local area networks (LANs) in the standard 802.3x. At the end of 2017, the IEEE approved two standards, 200GbE and 400GbE, to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of cloud service providers and hyperscale data center operators.

Since it was adopted as a standard by the IEEE in 1982, Ethernet has experienced 40 years of ups and downs. With the comprehensive advantages of continuous evolution, high speed, stability and reliability, it has become the most widely used network technology in the world, and it has also taken the lead in the home network. The cusp of the mega network.

Is the family’s 10 Gigabit demand real?

Maybe many people think that the current gigabit-level network is completely sufficient, and there is no lag when downloading files, playing games, and watching videos. It’s a waste of money to go that fast.

Indeed, 10 Gigabit Ethernet can provide a transmission rate of 10Gbps and transmit data at a rate of 10 billion bits per second. For many years, it has mainly served scenarios such as data centers and enterprise LANs.

For example, schools need high-definition video applications to support digital teaching, and applications such as LiDAR and sensors in digital military applications require a large amount of data throughput; or the continuous development of the Internet of Things in enterprise campuses is becoming more and more sensitive to network delays… At this time , the network bandwidth of the metropolitan area network is insufficient, and the loss of packets and equipment crashes will cause relatively large losses. Therefore, it is often solved through a 10 Gigabit local area network. As one of the “new infrastructure” hyper-converged digital infrastructure, the technology trend of converged Ethernet has also emerged.

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But for home users, is the 10 Gigabit network a bit of a knife?

In fact, it 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 actually have cows at home:

If you are a fan of AAA games and high-definition video, facing 4K and 8K image quality, it takes dozens of minutes to download and copy a 4K blockbuster under a gigabit network. It’s tough.

If you are a content creator, or an up master who uses love to generate electricity, affected by the epidemic, more and more audio-visual, 3D, and game studios are starting to work remotely, then upload and download video materials and program files to centralized storage every day. , which greatly affects the 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 easier collaboration.

If you are a hardware fanatic who pays close attention to money and buy a notebook with a 10 Gigabit interface, you can’t bear to waste your potential. You can only do it yourself and build a 10 Gigabit intranet to make them shine.

If you have a lot of storage requirements such as learning materials, you spend a lot of money to buy a hard drive with a read and write speed of hundreds of megabytes, but the file transfer speed just can’t keep up with the rhythm of the storage hardware. On the 10 Gigabit network, it is easy to copy a 20GB file to another computer at a rate of 1.25GB/s within 20 seconds, which is amazing.

At this time, you may think that the more bandwidth, the better.

In addition to being fast, 10 Gigabit Ethernet comes with a number of other benefits. For example, the expansion is flexible, and the mid-end Ethernet switch is directly used as the access device, which simplifies the complexity of network configuration; it has strong adaptability, and can automatically identify various network applications such as data services, voice services, and video services. Provide bandwidth guarantee.

It’s better to take action than to act, and then start “picking up garbage”, no, let’s build a 10 Gigabit network.

How many steps does it take to build a 10 Gigabit network?
The hands-on madmen may have already begun to gear up and want to deploy their own home 10 Gigabit network. Don’t worry, although DIY is not uncommon in 2022, the reason why 10G network is not popular is because there is a large threshold, which not only tests the thickness of the wallet, but also requires technical reserves.

The first is fiber optics. To ensure the stability of the 10 Gigabit network, it is still necessary to use a wired connection. At present, there are many kinds of common twisted pair cables. The 10 Gigabit network generally uses Category 7 cables. A twisted pair cable approved in the ISO/IEC118017 Category/F standard in 2002, the transmission rate can reach 10Gbps. If it is not a newly renovated family, rewiring also needs to consider the network cables that have been laid before, which is extremely troublesome. This also reminds us that it is better to deploy the network in one step, and choose the best one within the range to reduce the cost of secondary transformation.

Second, 10 Gigabit routers. The router can maximize the performance of broadband and is the center of the home network. Now many operators will give WiFi-6 routers to the gigabit package. If you want wireless devices to enjoy 10 Gigabit network speed, then a 10 Gigabit router is essential. On e-commerce platforms, a high-end 10 Gigabit router often costs thousands of yuan.

Next, the 10 Gigabit network card. The network card is the interface connecting the computer and the transmission medium in the local area network. The computer must have a 10 Gigabit network card to run at a speed of 10Gbps. At present, some brand computers such as Apple have built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, which support optional 10 Gigabit network cards. Of course, speed is time, and time is money, so you have to add money.

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By the way, some short video producers, game studios, game enthusiasts, etc., may also need a NAS that supports 10 Gigabit transmission speed, so that resource management, backup, and sharing can achieve better read and write speeds.

It is not difficult to hear here that money not only limits imagination, but also limits the speed of the Internet.

However, this does not mean that ordinary people are completely out of touch with Wan Zhao.

In the rapidly changing society, the digital construction of thousands of industries and the popularization of working methods such as telecommuting will spawn a large number of new network applications, which will greatly increase the demand for network bandwidth. 10 Gigabit will eventually step down from the unattainable tip of the pyramid and enter the mass consumer market. The increase in the basic network speed is like fertile soil, allowing a new generation of Internet applications and services to flourish, such as digital humans or the Metaverse.

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As Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, said: “Designing Ethernet as an open, industrialized standard local network is more meaningful than inventing Ethernet itself.”

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