Tera-what? The title of this article alone may have you reeling
through your memory because you just know you remember that term
from somewhere. But where? This is not an uncommon response,
since the Terabit phenomenon seems to have slipped to the back
burner for a while. A Terabit, in case you forgot, is a trillion
bits of information. There was a time when this next Gigabit
Ethernet derivative was poised to come to the forefront as a
hot, new technology. Add to that the ongoing debate between
Terabit Ethernet and Terabit-capable switches or routers. There
is definitely a distinct difference, since a true Terabit
Ethernet would require an associated set of standards, which
Gigabit Ethernet has, and refer to an overall design. Routers
with Terabit ability are essentially just that, able to handle
large amounts of information,so large, in fact, that Terabit is
the easiest way to describe them. For perhaps well over a
decade, the Terabit craze was everywhere; but that was a long
time before technology became th