Re: Does the world need 5G? Driverless cars, IoT, future devices will demand it - Feature - TechRepublic

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Does-the-world-need-5G-Driverless-cars-IoT-future-devices-will-demand-it-Feature-TechRepublic-tp7585831p7585833.html

On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 18:40 -0500, Tom Johnson wrote:
> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/does-the-world-really-need-5g/?tag=nl.e099&s_cid=e099&ttag=e099&ftag=TREd8c0fa8

Cabling is insane for large supercomputer installations.
Some systems have more than 50 miles of Infiniband cabling.  

http://scr3.golem.de/?d=1207/SuperMUC&a=93344&s=8

Would be great to just roll in the boxes and have them communicate (at
sufficient bandwidth) without wires.

Marcus




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