A number of articles these days are talking about high speed networks. Look at some of the news and discussions. 11 th Oct 2011: ETT, Ciena deploy 100G network in Eastern Europe 28 th Oct 2011: Huawei to launch 100G network in Russia 1 st Nov 2011: US energy agency demos blazingly fast network They all point to one thing – The advent of 100 Gigabit Ethernet in the commercial segment.