Now this _is_ a little off-topic, going from the subject line, but...

On 2/16/2006 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I recently got into an argument where I work
(hospital environment) where the person incharge of network planning said that 
they
have done benchmarks and gigabit does not inprove performance by much so it did 
not
warrant the cost. They obviously have never had to backup 16TB of data that I 
have
to deal with, but I admit the cost they were talking about > $1000 per network 
port
was just plain nuts to me.

Not so sure. That's reasonable when you consider that GB-Ethernet would probably need new cabling, and someone installing new NICs in the machines. The $/swith port don't really matter that much...

Arno

John


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